Climate con is science success

Vincent J. Curtis

22 Dec 24

RE: Big success for Canadian science. By Abhiraj Lamba. The Hamilton Spectator 21 Dec 24.

Taxpayers ought to know that climate change is a talisman by which scientists con grant money out of the government.  If you want to study the sex life of the salamander, just say you want to study how climate change affects the sex life of the salamander and the money is yours.

So it is with this success of researchers at the University of Waterloo.  They wanted to see if, by satellite spectroscopy, they could determine the concentration of HFC-125 in the middle atmosphere.  What was the justification? Why, climate change!  HFC-125 has 3500 times the “global warming potential” of carbon dioxide!

This is elaborate nonsense. What they’re actually talking about is the absorption coefficient of HFC-125 at a particular frequency in the IR spectrum.  Absorption coefficients drop as concentration rises in orders of magnitude; and they’re comparing a gas at a concentration in the pptv range to CO2 at 400 ppmv, a million times more concentrated than HFC-125. A poor bureaucrat is easily bamboozled with this elaborate handwaving.  The effect of doubling HFC-125 in the atmosphere is the equivalent of adding 2 ppm of CO2 to the atmosphere, which might add a thousandth of a degree to global temperature; and that’s it, at best.  (Note, neither CO2 nor HFC-125 are sources of heat, and the alleged global warming effect is due to heat retention due to BB-IR absorption.)

The triumph of Canadian science is two-fold: being able to measure HCF’s in the middle atmosphere by satellite spectroscopy; and bamboozling a bureaucrat and the public to get the money.

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