A confrere in Arizona has enjoyed a couple of weeks of near 110 F temperatures daytime and 60 F nighttime. Relative humidity has been hard by 0%. The air is transparent to re-radiated IR. Atmospheric CO2 compared to water is a sparrow fart in a hurricane. Here’s a hint: CO2 has no dipole moment and it is a linear molecule. Water has a big dipole moment and no axis of rotation about which a dipole does not sweep. CO2, parts-per-million in air; water, parts-per-hundred. Science – what a concept.
Global Warming.. oooh! Climate Change! can be ended at will within a few weeks. As always, Dr. Schund has the answer,
Who is going to tell him that a dipole moment is needed for rotational transitions in the microwave, but CO2, while it has no dipole, absorbs IR just fine?
A confrere in Arizona has enjoyed a couple of weeks of near 110 F temperatures daytime and 60 F nighttime. Relative humidity has been hard by 0%. The air is transparent to re-radiated IR. Atmospheric CO2 compared to water is a sparrow fart in a hurricane. Here’s a hint: CO2 has no dipole moment and it is a linear molecule. Water has a big dipole moment and no axis of rotation about which a dipole does not sweep. CO2, parts-per-million in air; water, parts-per-hundred. Science – what a concept.
Global Warming.. oooh! Climate Change! can be ended at will within a few weeks. As always, Dr. Schund has the answer,
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/humid.htm
Who is going to tell him that a dipole moment is needed for rotational transitions in the microwave, but CO2, while it has no dipole, absorbs IR just fine?