Here is an entertaining and well researched video documentary from my friend John Coleman at KUSI-TV about the history of the Keeling Curve and its founder.
Watch:
From the YouTube description:
A great scientist named Roger Revelle had Al Gore in his class at Harvard and the Global Warming campaign was born. Revelle tried to calm things down years later, but Gore said Revelle was Senile and refused to debate. John Coleman documents the entire story and shows how our tax dollars are perpetuating the Global Warming alarmist campaign even though temperatures have not risen in years.
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Thanks for this! :]
Have always like John Coleman, so down to earth. (odd to say about a meteorologist!)
I would like to see an index of this video. I’ll make one Friday if no one beats me to it.
Sorry to bust in here with a completely unrelated question, but I imagine you know the answer. Pilots are taught on the very first day that Standard Pressure is 29.92 inches or 1013.25 mm of Hg. Obviously 29 inches is less than a meter. What accounts for the difference?
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Bonanzapilot, 29.92 inches is ~0.76 m or 760 mm.
And that’s ~1 bar or ~1 atm. Your ~1013 is probably mbar.
@Bonanzapilot
It is 1013.25 10^2 Pa or 760mm of Hg or 10.33m of h2O
29.92*2.54=760
The 1013.25 is millibars.
Bonanzapilot see history – BIPM defined “standard pressure” in 1954 as
Note: = 740 mm Hg which
History:
How the Global Warming Scare Began……when NOAA initiated Doppler…and a career that was a previous laughing stock, elevated itself to a science
While the west has been on a suicide mission to impair its ability to secure its energy future, Russia has been steadily increasing its influence in Western Europe by making Western European countries more and more dependent on Russian energy. The result — Syria uses chemical weapons on its own people and Western Europe says, lets not do anything because we might make Russia made at us; Russia invades the Crimea and Western Europe says, lets not doing anything because Russia might get mad at us.
So perhaps it’s not the oil companies funding the skeptics, perhaps it’s been Russia manipulating the western left, turning them into climate alarmists, to gain Russian energy dominance in the world.
Remember during climategate when a Russian scientists put out a short, cryptic statement saying, “our temperature records have been tampered with”. We all assumed he was talking about the University of East Anglia. But think about it, who would have the motive and abilit to tamper with the temperature records of 10% of the world’s land area? And is it really a coincidence that “[a]verage warming for the Russian territory [as reported by … Russia] for the period 1907–2006 is estimated to have been 1.29C compared to 0.75C globally”? And then there’s Yamal …
Gore is just a convenient idiot doing Putin’s bidding.
One word, Excellent! Thank you Mr. Coleman. You are right about time silencing this scourge of global warming hysteria, that is being perpetrated on the people of this planet. Mother Nature hasn’t got the memo from Chairman Gore ye
Bonanzapilot,
29.92 inches is 76 cm.
If the column of mercury had a base of 1 cm^2 then the volume of mercury would be 76 cm^3.
The density of mercury is 13.534 g/cm^3
So the mercury would have a mass of 1029 g.
Hence 1029 millibars.
John Coleman provides eminently practical common sense with exceptional expertise.
1 atmosphere is 760mm Hg. maybe 1013.25 is in millibar ?
Thanks to Mr. Coleman for this. With his pertinent credentials, the provided information should have an enormous impact on the debate that is NOT going on. Will the MSM ever actually report the truth?
John Coleman will peg any credibility meter right at the top. Thanks so much for the heads-up and I’ll be re-distributing this exemplary presentation with considerable enthusiasm.
This is a good video. Well done Mr. Coleman. I like the good use of repetition – for example by repeating $4.5B to illustrate how well-funded the warmists are. I like his early affirmation that if he thought CO2 was damaging the planet, he would be campaigning with Gore. I thought it was interesting that Dr. Singer, in the 1990 interview, affirmed the probable existence of a negative feedback loop from clouds, that stabilizes the temperature – as recently asserted by Eschenbach here on WUWT. Around 5:30 when Coleman writes “principal” I think he means “principle.” The most interesting part is in the second half, where he explains Al Gore’s history. I hope warmists get that far, but I suspect many will bail near the beginning.
Thanks everyone. Watching the video too. Quite informative.
Bonanzapilot says:
March 13, 2014 at 11:22 am
Your answer is you are using the wrong units. the standard atmosphere of 1013.25 is milibars not mm of Hg. A Bar equals 750.062 mm of Hg.
A great lecture held by a fine, competent and professional gentleman of the old brigade. Al Gore is a cheating bungler, compared to him.
even though temperatures have not risen in years
February is certainly not giving these people anything to smile about. GISS dropped from 0.70 in January to 0.45 in February. Of the ones I am tracking, February is in for UAH, RSS, Hadsst3 and GISS. The rankings so far are 10th, 11th, 12th and 11th.
Bonanza pilot…
A standard atmosphere is 1013.25 milliBar. Not the same as mm Hg.
The pressure at the bottom of a 29.92 inch column of Hg is the same as 14.7 psi, where the ‘p’ is pounds force, which is the force required to accelerate 1 lb mass at 32 ft/sec^2. The millibar measurement is also based on the force equivalent of acceleration, but it is of a 1 Kg mass at 1 m/sec^2.
All of the above is dependent on the column of Hg being at standard temperature, which in some standards is 25C, some 20C, and some 68F. I think the equivalent for 29.92 inHg is based on 68F, or 20C.
Yeah, it’s confusing.
-BillR
The current CAGW university + government laboratory + government “national center for …. + government EPA + NSA + computer models and massive government super-computer labs with THEIR funding links and group-think association all grew from the initial “success” in their acid rain hysteria …
Speaking of money and power and influence … Today’s global circulation models are directly descended from the regional and city-sized 3D finite-element-finite differential equation methods used to model those smaller areas for the smog and aerosol studies of the acid rain groups – and then the “ozone hole” political-environmental-university-computer lab groups that successfully demanded the Montreal Protocol and acid rain rules!
101,325 is the sea level nominal pressure in Newtons/meter^2 known as Pascals. Millibars is 1/1000 units of 1 Bar or 1 atmosphere of pressure. 101,325 Pa is the equivalent of the English unit 14.7 pounds per square inch.