Greenhouse gases don’t absorb enough heat to cause global warming, says scientist

On April 22, 150 leaders will meet to sign the Paris Climate Change Accord which will allocate trillions of dollars to greenhouse gas reduction, however according to climate scientist Dr. Peter L Ward, these efforts will have no effect on global warming.

Though he says global warming is happening it is not because of greenhouse gases but ozone depletion.

Ward, a long time government geophysicist, has spent ten years carefully re-examining the physics of global warming, and discovered, that greenhouse gases simply do not absorb enough heat to cause warming. The dirty secret in climate science is that greenhouse gases have never been shown experimentally to warm air as predicted by climate models. Ward says his findings are so compelling he is offering a US$10,000 prize to the first scientist to prove him wrong experimentally.

On April 22, Earth Day, many world leaders plan to sign the Paris Accord limiting greenhouse gas emissions. “What if we spend trillions of dollars and do not reduce global warming,” asks Ward, “We need to be sure the science is right.”

The scientific facts are as follows:

Heat results from oscillations of the bonds that hold matter together. These oscillations cause matter, at different temperatures, to radiate thousands of frequencies shown by the shaded areas in the figure. Carbon dioxide, however, only absorbs frequencies shown by the vertical red bars, representing less than 10% of radiated heat. Plus, carbon dioxide molecules make up less than 0.04% of all molecules contained in air. Very few molecules each absorb very little heat.

What you feel as heat results from a broad spectrum of frequencies. An ordinary light bulb, with a filament glowing at 5500 degrees Fahrenheit, emits the broad spectrum shown in yellow, most of which is wasted because your eyes only see the effects of visible radiation. Radiation from a light bulb feels hot and it takes a lot of electricity to heat the filament. A fluorescent bulb or LED, on the other hand, radiates only a narrow range of visible frequencies, feels cool, and consumes much less electricity. Radiation absorbed by carbon dioxide contains little heat and does not feel hot.

Earth’s atmosphere is heated by high-energy solar ultraviolet radiation that causes molecules of certain gases to split apart, converting energy in the bonds directly to heat. Most ultraviolet-B radiation heats the ozone layer, 12 to 19 miles above Earth. When ozone is depleted, more ultraviolet-B reaches Earth, cooling the ozone layer, warming oceans efficiently and warming air by destroying ground-level ozone created primarily from pollution.

Ozone depletion caused by manufactured CFCs (chlorofluorocarbon gases) caused warming from 1970 to 1998. Warming was halted when the UN Montreal Protocol mandated cutbacks in CFC production.

More recent warming began in August 2014 when the 6-month eruption of Bárðarbunga volcano in central Iceland extruded 33 square miles of basaltic lava, the highest rate of lava production since 1783. Such exceptional lava flows have caused ozone depletion and major warming throughout the history of Earth.

Today, Ward is urging thousands of climate scientists to go to ClimatePlea.com and consider the evidence. Last November Ward offered $10k to the first scientist to prove experimentally that greenhouse gases cause more warming than ozone depletion (Info Here). There have been no takers.

Ward worked 27 years with the US Geological Survey as research geophysicist, branch chief, and program manager. He helped develop and manage a major national research program, chaired a committee at the White House, testified before Congress, worked on a committee for Vice President Gore, published more than 50 scientific papers, and won two national awards for explaining science to the general public. He retired in 1998, working intensely for the past decade trying to resolve several enigmatic observations related to climate change.