Senator Marco Rubio on Climate Change

Open Email to Sen. Marco Rubio:

Dear Sen. Rubio,

The Wall Street Journal quotes you as being skeptical about man induced climate change. The actual quotation was, ""I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what's happening in our climate. Our climate is always changing."

May I congratulate you on your perspicacity? The fact is that in the burning of fossil fuels, heat is generated, which contributes to the heat load placed on the earth by the sun. However, the amount of heat from fossil fuel burning is insignificant compared to heat from the sun.

The main hoax perpetrated by the UN, the Obama Administration, and various pseudoscientists, who are speaking from the point of desire to remain on the "payroll", is that carbon dioxide generated from the burning of fossil fuels is causing climate change. That theory has been in place for many years, such that many observers now consider it as fact.

However, I have been asking for almost the same amount of time for some specific scientific data which would show that carbon dioxide has such unusual properties as to trap heat on earth and inhibit it from flowing to the stratosphere. The best that the pseudo-scientists could come up with is that carbon dioxide molecules absorb heat, thereby retaining it in the atmosphere and allowing it to dissipate back to the earth. The obvious fault with this theory is that there are so few carbon dioxide molecules in the atmosphere compared to molecules of nitrogen and oxygen that they are bound to have an insignificant effect.

The pseudoscientists are basically saying that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acts as a blanket to deter the passage of heat from the earth to the atmosphere, in the same way that one places fiberglass insulation in house walls to deter heat loss from the interior in winter. It works only if you put in enough fiberglass insulation. A 10th of an inch of fiberglass does essentially nothing. Similarly, the low concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no significant heat insulation effect. A further deterrent to that theory is that laboratory measurements of heat insulation properties on gases, show that carbon dioxide is not grossly different from nitrogen and oxygen, which are the major components of the atmosphere.

Please keep up your skepticalness and if necessary ask the man backspace-induced climate change supporters to come up with some significant scientific justification for their position and stop continuing pouring money down a rat hole.