A Simple Analysis Of Global Warming
Scoreboard: Temperature 1 : CO2 Nil
Following on from my somewhat tongue in cheek ‘Thoughts of Thor” post below I decided to take this a little more seriously and rework it backwards to see if everything all added up. It appears to. The brief summary is that assuming the validity of the CO2 graphs if you work backwards from the CO2 levels to the amount of heat that should have been added to the atmosphere you get a pretty good match with the observed temperature rise.
The problem is that the causality would seem to be
“Burn Coal”, produce “CO2″ and “Heat”
NOT
“Burn Coal” produce “CO2″ which produces “Heat”.
The problem being is that if you replace “Burn Coal” with anything else you will drop out the “CO2″ bit, but you will still get energy released into the atmosphere.
So yes you will improve air quality, but that is about it.
Anyway you can work it out for yourselves. The math is easy. If the presentation below doesn’t work – it had trouble with equations you can get a PDF here or a Power Point Show here
December 05 2009 03:42 pm | Climate
