Gas physics was discovered and developed by factory engineers who invented gas physics instruments, starting with the American Meter Company’s invention of the gas meter in 1836. Academia ignored the private sector and did not learn the subject.
There is no curriculum for gas physics in academia. Engineering and physics classes merely touch upon the subject with centuries-old, misleading postulates such as continuity of energy and thermodynamics.
Professors use these to leap to the conclusion that energy cannot be destroyed, or at least migrates on and on. Thus, they proffer the false theory that gases retain heat from day to day (global warming).
Theoretical gas physics is like theoretical math – it leads to false conclusions. This article offers true gas physics from the private sector.
Energy does not migrate on and on. Kinetic energy (motion) is continuously destroyed in a gravitational field. Put bluntly, a six-year-old can see that a baseball rolls to a stop. Professors say that energy continues in the form of vibration, sound, and/or heat.
All matter, including gases, is affected by gravity. Temperature is a measure of kinetic energy. The definition of temperature is “an indication of the speed that atoms and molecules are moving” [Dorling Kindersley Science Encyclopedia, page 140].
A heat source causes them to accelerate, collide with one another, and when they cool, they slow down. They do not go elsewhere.
Professors skip over this simple truth: the definition of temperature. Temperature simply speeds up and slows down – like the atoms in a mercury thermometer. Any migration of energy ends abruptly, like sand under a rolling baseball.
The empirical proof that an elephant weighs more than a mouse is observation. The scientific proof is to put both on a scale and weigh them. All agree that from 1950 to 1985, our atmosphere cooled very slightly. It did the same from 1997 to 2015.
During both periods, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels rose dramatically.
That is empirical proof that CO2 does not cause warming. It is fifty-five years of proof. It is the elephant in the room.
We need to stop thinking, “It has to cause at least some warming.” No, it doesn’t – obviously it doesn’t. The question we should be asking is, “Why doesn’t CO2 cause warming?” That leads to the proper scientific conclusion: Measure it.
At our Weights and Measures gas-physics test facility, we conducted a test of vaporous (70 percent humidity) atmospheric air, including CO2 and other trace gases therein. The air-CO2 mixture matched actual conditions.
The air-CO2 mixture was isolated in our climate-controlled proving (test) room and heated. Once the heat source was discontinued, the temperature dropped steadily at about one degree Fahrenheit every 32 minutes.
During a typical sunny day, our atmosphere absorbs about 22 degrees Fahrenheit. The vaporous air-CO2 mixture in this test cooled 22 degrees in about 11 hours, 45 minutes. This, by no coincidence, closely matches the cooling rate of our atmosphere.
In our next experiments, we tested pure CO2. We measured the time it took for the CO2 to cool 22 degrees once the heat source was removed.
The cooling time varied between about three and ten minutes, depending on the type of container. The fastest cooling time was in a plastic container at 3 minutes and 47 seconds. Any container will slow cooling, so the gas in the open atmosphere cools faster than indicated by the test.
In the atmosphere, CO2 will therefore cool as fast as the Sun, and the vaporous air allows it to cool.
Even the vaporous mixture of all gases cools faster than 24 hours. Temperature does not, and cannot, accumulate in our atmosphere.
Some gases absorb more heat than others; however, for how long do any of them retain that temperature after the heat source is removed? The answer is certainly not long enough for the greenhouse theory to be true or to cause warming.
Advocates claim that greenhouse gases retain temperature from day to day. There is no such thing.
Yes, CO2 can absorb infrared heat, as would any other gas. But it is still temperature as defined above. Infrared is an interpretation of temperature using a mechanical device such as a prism or spectroscope. The point is irrelevant because the source of infrared cools quickly when the sun goes down.
And the notion that an increased number of parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause warming is also false.
A metaphor might help here. Your car engine that heats to near a thousand degrees, cools to cold steel by morning. It does not matter whether there are 200 or 400 cars in your neighborhood. Nor does it matter whether the engine is large or small. Without a heat source, they all cool quickly.
In other words, CO2 is not a greenhouse gas. Only in academic theory are there greenhouse gases that retain temperature from day to day. In the real world, they do not exist. The reason CO2 causes no warming in our atmosphere is that it cools too quickly.
These tests further prove that no gas—whether CO2, nitrogen, methane, or even humid atmospheric air—retains heat from day to day. They all cool too quickly. Prolonged warming, if it occurs, is caused by the Sun.
To naysayers, we say prove it. Prove it or stop creating destructive laws and rules based upon false theories.
We say to academics, measure it like real scientists. Build a laboratory like ours or Thomas Edison’s. Try to get CO2 to retain temperature from day to day.
It is a simple test. We used precision instruments. However, this is a repeatable test that anyone can perform with hardware-store instruments.
James T. Moodey owned a Weights and Measures gas-physics test facility. A condensed version of the author’s science paper, “Three Proofs Carbon Dioxide Causes No Warming in the Atmosphere — No Gas Causes Warming,” is in his book The Ladder Out of Poverty.
CO2 is needed by Plants and therefore its Not a Pollutant and so banning it would be like Lowering your ships sails with good trade wind blowing in the right direction