“Blue Skies are Falling” a new climate soap opera.
By Viv Forbes,
Chairman,
The Carbon Sense Coalition http://www.carbon-sense.com/
For several years the
Australian media has been dominated by a long running science fiction. Designed
for radio, TV and print media, it is called “Green Houses” in an apparent
attempt to benefit from the well-loved “Blue Hills” a soap opera which ran for
27 years on the government-owned ABC radio.
Each weekly episode of
“Green Houses” dramatizes a new global warming disaster, all attributed to
man’s generation of carbon dioxide from the use of carbon fuels. The series is
directed by a drama company called “Green Pieces” and produced by the Minister
for Climate Propaganda. The weekly script is written by academics funded by
government “Green House Grants”.
Its early episodes featured
devastating heat waves and never ending droughts, but a few severe winters in
the Northern Hemisphere and massive floods in Australia eroded the credibility
of the series and audience ratings fell.
Now the whole credibility
of its bedrock Green House story is under threat.
Sceptics ask how a tiny
quantity of an invisible, incombustible gas with no inherent heating ability
can warm the vast volumes of other gases in the atmosphere while also
overcoming the massive heat capacity of the land and oceans.
“Green Pieces” has drafted
the answer: “Carbon dioxide absorbs infra-red radiation from the warm surface,
creating ‘back radiation’ which re-warms the surface”.
This process does indeed
have an insulating effect at night, when clouds and the atmosphere can delay
the escape of some outgoing heat.
However, during the day,
the atmosphere has a big shading effect on incoming solar radiation which
contains UV, visible and IR components. Clouds, aerosols, dust and greenhouse
gases all act like atmospheric umbrellas and reflectors and provide some
protection for the surface from the incoming heat of solar radiation. This
provides a net cooling effect during the day which offsets and probably
extinguishes any night time warming.
The main effect of the
atmosphere is thus to moderate the daily temperature range - warmer nights and
cooler days, with little effect on average temperatures. Carbon dioxide is only
a bit player in this drama - water vapour is far more abundant and a far better
insulator.
This fundamental flaw in
greenhouse theory, coupled with the lack of surface warming in spite of rising
carbon dioxide levels, has led to dramatic falls in audience numbers for the
once-popular “Green House” series.
It is rumoured that the
producers of the series are preparing to replace it with a serialised science
fiction thriller titled “Blue Skies are Falling”.
This series will feature a
wizened black devil called “Old King Coal” as the villain responsible for every
extreme weather event.
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