Never mind the very cold March in much of the US and Europe, last month was red hot!
Frozen people weigh in, believing they are burning up.
“Look at all that red”
Kevin Pluck
I took the same map, and flattened the colors for all locations with an anomaly of greater than +/- 0.5C. Using a better color scheme it becomes clear that the vast majority of Earth was either close to average, or below average temperatures last month.
And satellite data shows that March was close to average for the last 20 years.
Lets ignore the historic solar minimum, and keep talking about imaginary record heat – caused by a 0.0001 mole fraction increase in a harmless, essential trace gas.
Bill Nye is not a scientist, yet passes himself of as the science guy.
His defining experiment for proving the greenhouse effect is junk science. He took two glass jars, and filled one with CO2.
Then he put heat lamps over the two jars, which shone thermal radiation towards both jars.
At the end of the experiment, he claimed that the CO2 filled jar was hotter than the one without CO2, due to the CO2 absorbing the thermal radiation.
But Bill made a fatal mistake in his fake experiment. The theory behind the “greenhouse” effect is that shortwave (sunlight) radiation passes through glass, but longwave thermal radiation coming up from the ground does not pass through glass.
Nye’s experiment depended on thermal IR from the heat lamp passing into the glass chambers. But glass is opaque to thermal IR.
How Does a Greenhouse Work?
In a greenhouse, radiant energy passes through transparent material into an area where plants, soil and other objects absorb it. They then re-radiate that energy in the form of infrared heat. Because infrared has longer wavelengths, it cannot go out back through the material through which it came.
Most glass is effectively opaque to thermal IR. (This is another reason that thermal imaging cameras are expensive; they need lenses made of materials transparent to thermal IR: typically germanium or quartz are used.
Nye’s experiment to prove the greenhouse effect, fundamentally violated what he was trying to prove. The greenhouse effect made his experiment useless. Whatever Bill Nye did, it most likely wasn’t what he claimed he did.
h/t to Dr. William Happer at Princeton, for pointing out Bill Nye’s junk science.
Six years ago, the Washington Post predicted cherry blossoms would start forming in January, due to a 0.0001 mole fraction increase in CO2 over the past century.
With the ice edge very close to the 1981-2010 median at both poles, crooked climate scientists and their fellow travelers in the press continue to insist that the ice is at a “record low.”
The only place with a significant negative anomaly is the Bering Sea, where winds blew the ice edge back last week.
“The rate of global heat accumulation is equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations per second”
John Cook
I prepared this special map to show how global warming has accumulated one trillion atomic bombs worth of excess heat over the past 30 years, due to a 1:20,000 increase in a harmless, essential trace gas.
