Excellent letter in the Daily News:
Al Poplawsky and Michael Jennings’ May 16 column, “Their View: Don’t water down climate change,” needs many corrections.
They conveniently exclude water vapor (H2O) from greenhouse gas effects even though carbon dioxide (CO2 ) exists in our atmosphere at only about one-tenth the quantity of H2O.
Furthermore, a molecule of H2O is 50 percent more effective or efficient in absorbing radiation than a molecule of CO2.
Therefore, the water component of the greenhouse gas effect is about 16 times that of the CO2. If there is an atmospheric component that could be controlled, it is water. But how would they tax water?It has become a sacred belief among the warm mongers that increased atmospheric CO2 causes global warming. But, when starting with a false premise, everything that follows is likely also false.
Research by A.J. Strata on the Vostok Ice Cores and published in “The Stata-Sphere” in June 2011 confirms that over very long periods of time, as ice ages come and go, it has been determined that temperature leads atmospheric CO2 content by about 800 years. In other words, increased global temperatures caused increased CO2 and not the other way around.
The fallacy that 97 percent of scientists believe “Climate change is real, man-made and dangerous” was debunked long ago. Those readers interested in the expose can find it online. Just search for “Cooks’ 97% consensus” and you will find it is disproven by a new peer-reviewed paper showing major math errors.”
The most revealing statement in the Poplawksy and Jennings’ column is, “….put money in the pockets of the two-thirds of Americans below the 67th percentile of the economy.”
In other words, their true goal is just another redistribution of wealth scheme.True science always displaces junk science, but sometimes it takes longer than desirable.
Kenneth L. Alexander
Lewiston