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Climate Change - The Real Story with Special Guest Dr. Jay Wile ~ Episode 25
We want to be good stewards of our environment, but the climate change advocates keep changing the definitions. So, today I have a noted scientist, Dr. Jay Wile who will take some of the mystery out of climate change and explain it in a way that we can understand!
*One main point near the end of the broadcast will shock you!
Dr. Jay Wile has a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in nuclear chemistry and a B.S. in chemistry from the same institution. He has won several awards for excellence in teaching and has presented numerous lectures on the topics of Nuclear Chemistry, Christian Apologetics, Homeschooling, and Creation vs. Evolution. He has articles on these subjects in nationally recognized journals and has authored or co-authored thirteen award-winning science textbooks designed to be used in a homeschool setting. Books by Dr. Jay.
Climate Change Articles - Search Climate change of Dr. Jay's blog - here is the search results.
Scientists created computer models of climate that were predicting warming. And as they were tracking the warming of the globe the models did not show this huge increase as per predictions and scientific models. The theory was as the years progressed the computer models and data collection would show definitely that the earth was indeed warming and it would be a huge problem for people on earth. The problem was the globe has not warmed much, so it's been hard to convince people that it is a problem. The greatest warming took place before the 1970s.
Here are some things we know about global warming. The globe has not warmed enough so in essence the science now focuses on a new term, "climate change." The theory is the carbon dioxide is not warming the planet but due to the carbon energy it is trapping it is causing the extreme weather we are seeing. There is evidence that the earth has warmed a little bit since the mid-1800s. Long before the build-up of carbon dioxide. The question is what has caused it, and scientifically we really don't know. We do know that carbon dioxide traps heat.
The big question is the "equilibrium climate sensitivity" and that is a question we will address in this broadcast. It is the single most important piece of data related to climate change, and therefore the question that should be asked and is often avoided or even unknown by many of the politicians campaigning on this topic.
What is it? In Dr. Jay Wile's own words: "Equilibrium climate sensitivity is defined as how much will global temperatures increase if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles." And that question is completely unanswered. It is somewhere between zero degrees and 3.5 degrees. There is no trend! Some studies show a very very low equilibrium climate sensitivity so we could easily double the carbon dioxide and nothing significant would happen other studies produce a very large climate sensitivity which means everything gets really hot and bad things to happen.
The most recent studies show no one agrees. If that single more important question what is equilibrium climate sensitivity can not be answered scientifically then you can't say scientifically that global warming is a problem. You just can't!
Anything we do in the short term can't produce a long term effect. It will be making a minor difference. That is just standard scientific reasoning. I can't take a short term action and produce a significant long term effect. For example Paris climate accord.
Climate Change - The Real Story with Special Guest Dr. Jay Wile ~ Episode 25
We want to be good stewards of our environment, but the climate change advocates keep changing the definitions. So, today I have a noted scientist, Dr. Jay Wile who will take some of the mystery out of climate change and explain it in a way that we can understand!
*One main point near the end of the broadcast will shock you!
Dr. Jay Wile has a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in nuclear chemistry and a B.S. in chemistry from the same institution. He has won several awards for excellence in teaching and has presented numerous lectures on the topics of Nuclear Chemistry, Christian Apologetics, Homeschooling, and Creation vs. Evolution. He has articles on these subjects in nationally recognized journals and has authored or co-authored thirteen award-winning science textbooks designed to be used in a homeschool setting. Books by Dr. Jay.
Climate Change Articles - Search Climate change of Dr. Jay's blog - here is the search results.
Scientists created computer models of climate that were predicting warming. And as they were tracking the warming of the globe the models did not show this huge increase as per predictions and scientific models. The theory was as the years progressed the computer models and data collection would show definitely that the earth was indeed warming and it would be a huge problem for people on earth. The problem was the globe has not warmed much, so it's been hard to convince people that it is a problem. The greatest warming took place before the 1970s.
Here are some things we know about global warming. The globe has not warmed enough so in essence the science now focuses on a new term, "climate change." The theory is the carbon dioxide is not warming the planet but due to the carbon energy it is trapping it is causing the extreme weather we are seeing. There is evidence that the earth has warmed a little bit since the mid-1800s. Long before the build-up of carbon dioxide. The question is what has caused it, and scientifically we really don't know. We do know that carbon dioxide traps heat.
The big question is the "equilibrium climate sensitivity" and that is a question we will address in this broadcast. It is the single most important piece of data related to climate change, and therefore the question that should be asked and is often avoided or even unknown by many of the politicians campaigning on this topic.
What is it? In Dr. Jay Wile's own words: "Equilibrium climate sensitivity is defined as how much will global temperatures increase if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles." And that question is completely unanswered. It is somewhere between zero degrees and 3.5 degrees. There is no trend! Some studies show a very very low equilibrium climate sensitivity so we could easily double the carbon dioxide and nothing significant would happen other studies produce a very large climate sensitivity which means everything gets really hot and bad things to happen.
The most recent studies show no one agrees. If that single more important question what is equilibrium climate sensitivity can not be answered scientifically then you can't say scientifically that global warming is a problem. You just can't!
Anything we do in the short term can't produce a long term effect. It will be making a minor difference. That is just standard scientific reasoning. I can't take a short term action and produce a significant long term effect. For example Paris climate accord.
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