NASA: CO2 Cools Earth’s Atmosphere

At the beginning of the year, I was toying around with Google Earth because…well, because it’s fun, right?  You get involved in it and pretty soon, hours have gone by and you didn’t even realize it.  At least for me, that’s true.

Normally, I jet around the world, looking for interesting landmarks, or photos, or bits of information.  Sometimes I take a street-level ride around Jerusalem, or take a plane ride down to South America to gaze at the Nazca Lines from space.  Good stuff!  Recently, I was looking at the geography of the poles, particularly Antarctica.  I was studying about the way the land mass down in Antarctica forms the ice over its rocky surface and how, as the ice continues to form on the ground, it eventually pushes out into the oceans and icy shelves, sometimes the size of whole states, can fall off into the ocean and float away.

Leftists will typically point to that as proof that the planet is heating up, but in reality, this is supposed to happen.  Once the glacial structures move toward the end of the land mass of Antarctica, they end up moving out only so far before they’re too heavy and…whoosh!  It breaks off and falls into the ocean.

Now, the Arctic Ocean on the top of the planet is a completely different animal.  There is no land mass above the water at the North Pole.  Only ocean water and ice.  Taking a look at the top of the planet from a satellite view, it’s a vast icy nothingness where very few things live.  The ice there only builds so high before it sinks lower into the ocean because there’s no upper land mass to hold it.  In essence, it’s like a gigantic ice cube floating in the Arctic Ocean.

While gazing around the world on Google Earth one day, something very strange struck me.  I almost didn’t notice it.  Google Earth’s depiction of the Arctic Ocean showed only blue ocean.  NO ICE.  I was mystified.  Where did all the ice go?  I began to formulate in my head all the conspiracy theories.  Here was Google which is notoriously and rabidly Leftist in political belief and they somehow managed to present the Earth with an Arctic Ocean free of ice!

I began zooming in, closer and closer.  As I got to the northern shore of Alaska, near the Beaufort Sea, something began to emerge and I was floored!  Closer and closer I zoomed.  There was Narwhal Island, and still closer I zoomed.  Until finally, I was completely convinced.  The Google Earth software had completely spray-painted the Arctic Ocean’s icy surface a deep blue color.  The edges of the islands looked as if my 5-year-old son had used the Paint program to encircle the islands in blue.  Check out these photos.

Above, you can see the white landmass of Greenland (right) and the dark spot above Alaska (below center) and all along the coast of Russia (left) is the Arctic Ocean.  And as you can plainly see, it is devoid of ice.

The Beaufort Sea on closer view appears to be completely devoid of ice as well.

Now we can start to see that northern coastline of Alaska is beginning to come into view.

To the upper left of the Stockton Islands (center right) are a chain of islands, one of which is Narwhal Island.

As we pull  in extremely close, you’ll note that the three islands on the lower mass are seemingly connected by ice!  You’ll also note that Narwhal Island above it is also covered with ice.  Yet, the blue water all around denotes just ocean.

And now the truth unfolds even more clearly.  The spray-painted color blue around the edges of the islands are merely there as window dressing…or perhaps to give the impression to those who don’t know any better that the Arctic Ocean is completely melted!

Finally, above, you can see that despite their best efforts to hide it, the Arctic Ocean is still ice, with the blue just masking that fact.

So why is this important?

It’s significant because it shows the lengths to which the Left will go to prove something about their unproven theory by hiding what is obviously still there.  What could the reasons for this masking be that would explain why they would do this on the Arctic Ocean, but not at the Antarctic?  After all, I’m sure there are plenty of people who would love to see the Antarctic continent without all the ice, just out of curiosity.

The official excuse by Google online because apparently many people also found this very suspect, was that they were attempting to allow people the luxury of looking at the Earth without the distraction of a lot of ice at the North Pole.  Oh!  Is that it?  I just thought that maybe you were trying to fool people!  Silly me!

Taking all this into account, NASA has made a report public that further erodes the Global Warming claims of the Left.  The report actually claims that during the solar storms where solar energy blasts the Earth and forces the particles to superheat the upper atmosphere.  However, the heat never penetrated the upper atmosphere.

“Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats,” explains James Russell of Hampton University, SABER’s principal investigator.  “When the upper atmosphere (or ‘thermosphere’) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.”

That’s what happened on March 8th when a coronal mass ejection (CME) propelled in our direction by an X5-class solar flare hit Earth’s magnetic field.  (On the “Richter Scale of Solar Flares,” X-class flares are the most powerful kind.)  Energetic particles rained down on the upper atmosphere, depositing their energy where they hit.  The action produced spectacular auroras around the poles and significant1 upper atmospheric heating all around the globe.

“The thermosphere lit up like a Christmas tree,” says Russell.  “It began to glow intensely at infrared wavelengths as the thermostat effect kicked in.”

For the three day period, March 8th through 10th, the thermosphere absorbed 26 billion kWh of energy.  Infrared radiation from CO2 and NO, the two most efficient coolants in the thermosphere, re-radiated 95% of that total back into space.

What all of this translates to is that 95% of the energy was repelled back into space.  The effects caused a cooling rather than a heating of the Earth’s atmosphere, meaning that the theory that CO2 gas being the primary culprit for man-made global warming is a farce.  As suspected all along, I might add.

One thing is for sure.  I wouldn’t wanna be a Liberal right about now.

Source:  NASA Science