Kevin Trenberth of NCAR told this nonsense to the Washington Post :
Methane is a substantial contributor to global warming
The radiative transfer model used by Trenberth’s NCAR is RRTM. That model shows that even a 500% increase in methane (CH4) would have almost no impact on Earth’s radiative balance in the mid-latitudes, where almost all of the world’s population lives.
Methane is an unstable gas which oxides quickly in the atmosphere. It occupies less than two parts per million of the atmosphere, and its absorption bands almost completely overlap with H2O . Even a very large increase in CH4 would have almost no impact on the climate.
Yeah, and humans don’t even make methane. It’s natural gas, comes out of the ground. Humans BURN methane, which is the opposite of making it.
Human flatus may contain hydrogen gas and/or methane, which are flammable. If sufficient amounts of these gases are present, it’s possible to light the fart on fire.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/medicalhealth/f/What-Is-The-Chemical-Composition-Of-Farts.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Kv37dAK-Y
So we both make and burn methane. 😉
kevin trenberth should meet andrew lacis
andew says that co2 is the temperature control knob. period. end of story.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/lacis_01/
One of the reasons methane is claimed to be such a powerful green house gas is that thee isn’t much of it. It doesn’t take very much of an increase in terms of parts per billion to reach the 500% mark or more.
Kevin Trenberth is IMO at the heart of what is wrong in the climate science world.
His attack on Roy Spencer’s published work and Roy himself was despicable.
Yet, he was the first to produce a scientifically outlandish finding as to why the earth has shown no warming for the last 18 years,that being a reanalysis which showed heat hiding a half mile or more down in the depths of the ocean. That was the first of over 50 attempts to find the heat from various sources.
When a recent finding that the heat really can be found in ocean surface temperatures, by taking corrupted temperatures of ship water intake despite valid findings to the contrary, he was in the ‘I told you so’ juvenile mode.
He cannot take an objective look at findings, because his ego will not let him. He can’t accept the fact that this is all about the people of the world and not about him.
“He can’t accept the fact that this is all about the people of the world and not about him.” == Sociopath.
Confessions of a Sociopath
Cow farts. We’ll kill all the cows, force everyone to eat vegan and save the world! 25 years ago when when of my very liberal college friends said global warming was caused by cow farts we all looked at him like he was having another diabetic reaction. He also was a proponent of doming the world to modify the weather.
I hate to tell you but the US government is already on the ” eat vegan” bandwagon!
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) came up with the recommendation that America Should Adopt a ‘Plant-Based’ Diet. It recommends taxes on dessert, trained obesity “interventionists” at schools and worksites, and electronic monitoring of how long Americans sit in front of the television or computer. The new Food Safety Modernization Act and Obummercare will be used as the weapons to ‘transform’ American dietary habits. to a more sustainable pattern of eating.
This load of Bovine Feces is straight out of the mouth of Maurice Strong:
In 1992, As Chairman Strong told the UN conference at Kyoto…
The same propaganda was repeated by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy…
It is being ‘presented as a health issue by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee as the excuse to ram radical changes down the throats of Americans. However it has nothing to do with health. There is certainly a lot of information in the scientific literature that shows humans need meat especially early in life if the brain is to develop fully. For example: Role of red meat in the diet for children and adolescents
For more see the rest in my old comment HERE
And pushing grains for decades in the forms of breads and pasta didn’t do a thing for diabetics either. At this point in my life I’ve come to the conclusion that whatever the Feds say is good for me just means I should do the opposite if I want to actually live decently.
I have been off grain for about ten years.
No more acid reflux. Blood pressure dropped back to normal (cut the NaCl and use KCl instead or a combo.) My arthritis doesn’t hurt any more and my range of motion has improved. (Glucosamine & Chondroitin with MSM) Co-Q-10 seems to help my energy levels. Hubby has to wear a support hose but the Co-Q-10 seems to keep the swelling down even when he forgets to wear it. The emerging role of coenzyme Q-10 in aging, neurodegeneration, cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes mellitus
Cinnamon: Potential Role in the Prevention of Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, and Type 2 Diabetes also seems to help. (I had low blood sugar all my life)
And I am now researching this: Role of uric acid in hypertension, renal disease, and metabolic syndrome.
One of the other things to consider is iodine especially if you are older and watching your salt intake. …urinary iodine levels decreased by more than 50% between 1971–1974 and 1988–1994. If you eat out a lot or used prepared food, the salt added does not contain iodine. “…the transformation of eating practices in the U.S. and many other countries, substituting meals prepared outside the homes using plain salt for home-cooked foods containing iodized salt, has led to an erosion of iodine in the U.S. diet.” — (wwwDOT)saltinstitute.org/news-articles/iodized-salt/
Chronic iodine deficiency (ID) increases thyrotropin (TSH) concentrations and produces a thyroid hormone pattern consistent with subclinical hypothyroidism (ScH). ScH may be associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors.
ChiefIO has a good article:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/bromine-iodine-prostate-and-breast-cancer/