About this blog

My name is Bill Hirt and I'm a candidate to be a Representative from the 48th district in the Washington State legislature. My candidacy stems from concern the legislature is not properly overseeing the WSDOT and Sound Transit East Link light rail program. I believe East Link will be a disaster for the entire eastside. ST will spend 5-6 billion on a transportation project that will increase, not decrease cross-lake congestion, violates federal environmental laws, devastates a beautiful part of residential Bellevue, creates havoc in Bellevue's central business district, and does absolutely nothing to alleviate congestion on 1-90 and 405. The only winners with East Link are the Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Washington and their labor unions.

This blog is an attempt to get more public awareness of these concerns. Many of the articles are from 3 years of failed efforts to persuade the Bellevue City Council, King County Council, east side legislators, media, and other organizations to stop this debacle. I have no illusions about being elected. My hope is voters from throughout the east side will read of my candidacy and visit this Web site. If they don't find them persuasive I know at least I tried.

Monday, June 8, 2020

Revisiting the Fossil Emission Hoax


The previous post detailed how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is proceeding with plans to release its 6th Assessment Report (6th AR) in 2022.   That when it’s released it will undoubtedly reassert the claim, “Human influence on the climate system is clear”.

The basis for “human influence” claim on temperatures is an August 2007, Scientific American article, “The Physical Science behind Climate Change”.  It concluded the anthropogenic CO2 emissions in their computer models had to have 10 times the effect of the Sun to match measured data.  The IPCC AR5 concluded new computer models required those emissions to have 30 times the Sun’s affect to match measured data.

The IPCC decision to minimize Sun’s impact on temperatures ignored 800,000 years of ice core data.    The four prior Interglacial periods show CO2 level was the result of increased out gassing from ocean when temperatures were warming and increased dissolution when temperatures were cooling.  Both warming and cooling and CO2 increasing and decreasing were driven by the Sun. 

The clearest example was the Sun warmed global temperatures during the Eemian Interglacial Period some 126,000 years ago to 4 deg C higher than current levels.  Yet CO2 levels never exceeded 290 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in atmosphere.   However while the Sun was responsible for increasing CO2 in atmosphere it was the CO2 in atmosphere that further warmed planet by blocking radiation back to space.    

The warming from 0 deg F without CO2 to 60 deg F shows most of the radiation to space was blocked with 290 ppm CO2   While it’s not clear what percentage was blocked, a global energy flow chart for 2000 to 2004 showed  ~370 ppm atmospheric CO2  “back radiation” (reflected) 333 out of 356 Watt/sq meter or ~94% of surface radiation. 

Recent data showed back radiation increased to 96% of surface emission, presumably the result of atmospheric CO2 increasing to 410 ppm.   The hundreds of billions spent annually on windmills, solar panels, and battery-powered cars during the 20 years have still resulted in blockage increasing by 2%.   However the “most likely” reason for recent global warming is not the 2% increase in blockage but an increase in Sun’s energy resulting in more energy to block.  The IPCC claim fossil emissions have 30 times the affect of the Sun is absurd.

It’s also “unlikely” allowing fossil emissions to increase back radiation above 96% would be “an existential threat”.   Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is in fact a monumental lie.  Spending trillions on the Green New Deal perpetrating that lie goes beyond absurdity to insanity.

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