Greeenhouse Gasses

In 1972, greenhouse gasses had been increasing for the 30 years since WW II and through the “Post War Industrial Boom”. (link) The Earth’s temperature had fallen ¼ degree. If that trend continued, we would fall into a mini-ice age. The mini-ice age of 500 years ago was nasty. Entire villages in Europe destroyed by glaciers. Crops and cattle died. Starvation was common. The threat was luminous.

In 1975, a World Wide recession hit and a new concept, “misery index”, was created.

Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions fell, but the Earths temperature started to increase.

The Greenhouse Gas/Global Cooling Theory was gone.

Now it’s Greenhouse Gas/Global Warming.

Same villains.

Time for a quick look at science:

95% of Greenhouse Gas is water vapor.

The oceans are the number one producer of Greenhouse Gasses (including CO2).

(The oceans are 78% of the planet. Developed land is 11%)

The oceans exhale greenhouse gasses when they warm. Inhale when they cool.

All Greenhouse Gasses are in the Troposphere.

The Troposphere extends from the Earth out about 12 miles at the equator and 4 miles at the poles during summer. The Troposphere at the poles during winter is indistinct. (Supports the “oceans exhale when they’re hot” concept.)

Air temperature decreases with altitude from the surface of the Earth to the top of the Troposphere. It drops at a rate about 2 degrees per 1,000 feet.

The top of the Troposphere at the equators is -67 C and at the poles -47 C.

The Tropopause is the mile wide transition between the Troposphere and the Stratosphere.

This transition is between the temperatures going down in the Troposphere and going up in the Stratosphere.

(Most of us have seen those big, white storm clouds way up in the sky. The tops of those clouds are in the Stratosphere.)

Simplified:

There is a blanket of insulation around the earth. It’s thick at the Equator and thin at the poles.

There are three theories how Greenhouse Gas affects the Earth:

1) Greenhouse Gasses reflect the sun’s energy and cause Global Cooling.

2) Greenhouse Gasses reflect the Earth’s energy and cause Global Warming.

3) Greenhouse Gasses act like a blanket and hold in the Earth’s temperature preventing it from escaping into space.

1) Greenhouse Gasses/Global Cooling is no longer politically correct and has been thrown out.

2) I don’t understand Greenhouse Gas reflecting the Earth’s energy and not reflecting an equal or greater amount of the sun’s energy.

The majority of Greenhouse Gas is water vapor.

We all know what it’s called when the sun’s visible light interacts with water vapor: a rainbow.

The reflecting the sun’s energy theory was scientific 30 years ago.

Now greenhouse gas lets in the sun's energy but reflects the Earth's energy?

That sounds like a "one-sided molecule."

3) I don’t understand Greenhouse Gas holding in heat.

Glaciers are melting where the Greenhouse Gasses (Troposphere) are the thinnest.

There is no trending over the past 8 years in temperature or radiant energy in Phoenix or Miami.

I can’t make those two facts relate in an equation that includes Greenhouse Gasses holding in heat.

We were told that Katrina was caused by CO2/Greenhouse Gas/Global Warming and that Katrina was just the beginning. But Katrina hasn't been repeated yet.

I wonder if we’re missing something important.

What’s the thickness of the Troposphere been at the poles over the last 50 years?

How does Troposphere thickness correlate with ocean temperature?

Have there been any recorded annual temperatures trending higher that are away from the oceans? Where? Is there a pattern?

Summer temperatures trending higher without annual temperatures trending higher doesn’t make sense to me either, unless the temperature connection is with the sun.

What about the sun?

The association between sun activity and Earth’s temperature is far closer than the association between CO2 and the Earth’s temperature. (link)

The sun produces all the Earth’s heat.

Is there an association between the Troposphere being thinner at the poles, the sun and glaciers melting?

What would happen if the Global Cooling scientists of the '70's got together with the Global Warming Scientists?