If one Godwin card doesn’t move your audience, throw the full deck…
Psychiatrist on CNN: Trump May Be Responsible for Millions of More Deaths Than Hitler, Stalin, Mao
Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” psychiatrist Dr. Allen Frances said President Donald Trump “may be responsible for many more million deaths” than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong.
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He added, “Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were. He needs to be contained but he needs to be contained by attacking his policies, not his person. It’s crazy for us to be destroying the climate our children will live in.
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I agree that I should have interrupted after that line. I wish I had heard him say it, but I was distracted by tech difficulties (that's why the show open didn't look the way it normally does, I had two computers at the table, etc). Not hearing the comment is my fault.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 25, 2019…
Dr. Frances goes on to say that it is counterproductive to discuss Trump’s mental state in psychological terms, but he pulls no punches suggesting Trump’s policies are crazy.
I used to wonder if some people were attracted to psychology courses because they wanted to find solutions to their own problems.
I no longer believe this to be the case; but it is way past time the handful of psychology professionals, who in my opinion flout their own ethical guidelines by offering wild public opinions about the mental state of people whose policies they dislike, took a long hard look in the mirror.
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I have seen some stupid statements over the years but CNN saying that : “Trump is Worse than Hitler, Mao and Stalin combined because of Climate Change” is loopier than all of them put together. What “Climate Change”?
”What “Climate Change”?
Yes no climate change here. Winter temps are average. Average min 7C Average max 14C. Was like that 50 years ago and it’s like that this week. Why can’t I get some of this climate change stuff everybody’s talking about…or is it only happening somewhere else??
Just now while I’m typing this some young climate activist is being interviewed on the radio because yet another local council has officially called ”CLIMATE EMERGENCY!!!!!”. Listening to what she says (they are usually millennial girls for some unknown reason) ”warming this”, ”extreme weather that”. blah blah blah. Totally clueless…You know….like CNN et al…
On every subject there is a person with claims to be an expert who is also a beautiful, young woman.
TV is a visual medium. They are the experts who ae chosen.
It’s not just climate change. Watch all the TV news channels and count the number of experts who fit that description.
For some reason, Naomi Oreskes interviews are confined to radio and print.
You’re assuming “she’s” a woman. I haven’t seen any data to support that assessment, and plenty of observational evidence to contradict a clear Oreskes gender assignment.
The Clever Hans / Naomi Oreskes syndrome. LOL
Maybe Doctor Frances’s specialism is Bigotry and CNN journo’s are required to ignore it when it suits?
Mike. ” Climate change somewhere else”. In the old days of the gold rush, they were always finding gold “somewhere else”.
Just read a report on the “Farmer’s Almanac” prediction for the coming winter – it’s going to brutal…..
Have you ever watched the National Geographic Show Drain the Oceans where the programs show what is beneath the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. If you have not watched that show you should. I believe the Channel is 52 on the Comcast Cable. It shows how the current conditions of the oceans have affected Climate Change.
Never interfere with an enemy while they are making a mistake.
The enemies’ mistake – I think you are right. The Australian left lost an election in May they were predestined not lose and they obviously lost it because they went full-tilt promising action on the “climate emergency.” The current campaign for the Democratic nomination for president has painted all the candidates into supporting energy policies that are wildly unpopular with a solid majority of voters.
Yang’s idea about giving everyone a $1000 a month, the freedom dividend, is loopy & scary …and wildly popular. It would be a mistake to tax and spend our way to the freedom dividend – it is not a political mistake for David Yang to campaign on it. Be afraid.
In Canada the left taxes us to the limit and then buys our votes with it in the final months of their tenure. Does it work? Sadly, yes. Canadians aren’t an exception re the global left’s abuse of education to robotize people into socialists. The fact we haven’t protested the great dumbing down over the last couple of generations speaks loads.
Gary, do you remember all the discussion about declining education decades ago (Ex The Dumbing Down Of America 1999)? You don’t hear anything about it anymore, yet all the while the decline of education has gotten FAR worse. All while in the control of the education-marxists, & they’re now hiding their failure, and just speaking about it is forbidden.
That is possibly the most stupid statement ever made, what is the target audience those in asylums?
CNN == Chit Not News
CNN – Communist News Network or Clinton News Network
In Australia we know CNN as Constantly Nothing New.
“what is the target audience …?”
It’s clearly the few viewers they have left, so they must pander with lies and exaggeration. If CNN reported as truthfully as FOX, what’s left of their audience will move over to MSNBC.
CNN, MSNBC, the NYT and WashPo have degenerated into pure “fan service” for the foaming, far-left base that apparently lives in some kind of parallel universe. There is no longer even the slightest pretense of providing “news” or “journalism” and they admit it.
If CNN didn’t have contracts to display their blather in airports, where there are captive audiences, they’d likely not have an audience.
That’s where their viewership numbers come from, dismal as they are.
Fortunately, even that is changing… more and more airports are ditching CNN as people request that the channel be changed or the TV be turned off… people are tired of the constant propaganda.
They say Freud set back psychiatry a hundred years. If you don’t want to set your kid back a hundred years, don’t send them to someone like Freud. Look at how many of these perps were prescribed psychoactive drugs in the years preceding their crimes.
What is disturbing is the statement that Donald Trump killed more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao together? What people did Trump kill? I am a Granddaughter of a World War II Veteran who served in the Second Battalion Third Armored Division that liberated some of the concentration camps and was told first hand that Stalin by far killed more people the second place goes to Mao and then Hitler. I don’t understand how Trump could have killed people by what means? Bill Clinton knocked off 22 people. I have never heard Trump knocking off people lately.
**I have never heard Trump knocking off people lately.**
Over 400 million bodies should be visible somewhere, or DT must have a very huge closet.
If someone had the guts to put climate science to the test of outside inspection to life critical Quality Assurance standards and it passed I might well agree with him. I know I am only a retired computer modeller working solo but even so when I put it through the QA tests for a Poundland Christmas novelty product is failed in the unofficial category of don’t bother to quote again. Poundland for those of you who don’t know it are a low cost but tolerably good quality store for the price here in the UK.
It does not even get to the start point for a pacemaker QA spec.
One of the most fun things about President Trump is that he has created an environment where the crazies can not help themselves from displaying their craziness. Buy popcorn stock.
It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) If President Trump cured cancer in children, the TDS sufferers would find a way to make him look evil for doing so. All that matters for them is the hate.
If Trump cured cancer in children, CNN’s headline the next day would be something along the lines of:
Trump fails to adequately fund cancer research for adults.
If trump cured cancer in children, the headline would be Trump Destroys Trillion Dollar Industry!!! Millions out of Work!!!
Alternative headline: “Millions of children die before Trump acts”
“Trump accelerates overpopulation”
TDS is a side effect of how CNN and MSNBC distort the truth to serve an agenda, where that agenda is to put a Democrat back into the white house by whatever means necessary. Since the agenda of the Democrats is open borders, prohibitively expensive energy, high taxes and regulation up the wazoo, there’s no way that truth and logic can support them, so they resort to defamation, misinformation, misdirection and outright lies.
The economy is good.
So, they complain about increased traffic!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/price-of-good-economy-more-time-stuck-in-traffic-11566466206?fbclid=IwAR1_NZuMu0qcnSND5mBAdXlGFeW4UAX-9vQvTLQ_RSwgQmu9Z1r6vdiprjo
Trump Puts Honest Oncologists Out of Work!
Actually, he “hopes” Trump’s policies will cause millions of deaths because then his own prejudices will be vindicated.
It’s a she, although these days she might be gender fluid or a non specific binary gender because she is a radical lefty.
Watch the video, the Dr. is an old man..
The above article is false nonsense – radical greens are the great killers of our age.
Hypothesis: Radical Greens are the Great Killers of Our Age
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/14/hypothesis-radical-greens-are-the-great-killers-of-our-age/
9. Conclusion
The evidence strongly supports my hypothesis that “Radical Greens are the Great Killers of Our Age”.
The number of deaths and shattered lives caused by radical-green activism since ~1970 rivals the death tolls of the great killers of the 20th Century – Stalin, Hitler and Mao – they advocate similar extreme-left totalitarian policies and are indifferent to the resulting environmental damage and human suffering.
RADICAL GREENS ARE THE GREAT KILLERS OF OUR AGE
Here is some of the supporting evidence:
The banning of DDT from ~1972 to 2002, which caused the malaria deaths of tens of millions of children under five years of age, and sickened and killed many more adults and children;
https://iea.org.uk/publications/research/malaria-and-the-ddt-story
The fierce green opposition to golden rice, actions that blinded and killed millions of children;
https://reason.com/blog/2013/09/30/scientists-call-out-greenpeace-for-killi
https://reason.com/blog/2016/06/29/100-nobel-laureates-demand-that-greenpea
https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/07/life-saving-golden-rice-finally-gets-to
The misallocation of scarce global resources for destructive intermittent “green energy” schemes, which are not green and produce little useful (dispatchable) energy;
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-revolution-near-impossible
Properly allocated, a fraction of the trillions of dollars squandered on green energy schemes could have installed clean drinking water and sanitation systems into every community on the planet, saving the lives of many tens of millions of children and adults; the remaining funds could have significantly reduced deaths from malaria and malnutrition;
Global Crises, Global Solutions, The 1st Copenhagen Consensus, edited by Bjørn Lomborg, 2004,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 648 pp.
The number of Excess Winter Deaths and shattered lives caused by runaway energy costs in the developed world and lack of access to modern energy in the developing world probably exceeds the tens of millions of malaria deaths caused by the DDT ban; Excess Winter Deaths (more deaths in winter than non-winter months) total about two million souls per year, which demonstrates that Earth is colder-than-optimum for humanity;
https://friendsofsciencecalgary.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cold-weather-kills-macrae-daleo-4sept2015-final.pdf
Indoor air pollution from cooking fires contributes to illness and premature death in the developing world, especially among women and children;
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2004/statement5/en/
In addition to runaway energy costs and increased winter deaths, intermittent wind and solar power schemes have reduced grid reliability and increased the risk of power outages;
http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wp-content/uploads/eonwindreport2005.pdf
https://www.thegwpf.com/increasing-electricity-system-fragility-in-the-uk/
Huge areas of agricultural land have been diverted from growing food to biofuels production, driving up food costs and causing hunger among the world’s poorest people.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430252/
you want death, think of how many have died after DDT was banned. liberal socialists are a cancer on humanity.
You mean they left out Lucifer?
And Pol Pot.
And the Democrat-controlled US Congress of 1975. You know, the ones who turned their backs on South Vietnam and threw them to the communist wolves, causing the death and displacement of millions of innocent people in Southeast Asia.
After the Doctor had made such an absurd statement,I think it’s a no brainer that Dr.Allen Francis needs a good psychiatrist for himself!
Exactly in a ward, in a straight jacket
Seems applicable, to the Doctor’s current conditions….
Napolean XIV – They’re coming to take me away! Ha! Ha!
https://youtu.be/hnzHtm1jhL4
It would be interesting to find out what Dr. Allen Frances knows about the physics of how the climate works. Nothing, would be my guess.
I have usually found that psychiatrists need themselves more than anyone else does.
Most mental health ‘professionals’ are madder than their patients. I suggest DJT sues for defamation.
Remember when it was considered unpatriotic to speak out about the president. Remember when any criticism of the president, no matter how well justified was considered Raysis. Remember when we were told that even if we could not respect the president, we had to respect the office of the presidency.
Remember when the press would not call out the president on anything.
To criticize or speak out in any way was considered unamerican and borderline treasonous.
Remember, it was just 2009 up until 2016.
Just needs to buy an expensive beachside property change a few light globes and buy some carbon credits for the private jet and all will be forgiven and he’ll get a Nobel won’t he? Could have a whip around and throw in a Save the Poley Bear Foundation if they’re really picky. Tell them that’s what he wanted to buy Greenland for and they’ll lap it up.
Actually, it would be interesting if Donald Trump bought a coastal property next to say Al Gore’s or Barack Obama’s. What bloviating line could the MSM come up with?
Trump already has Mar a Lago, and had Atlantic City casinos.
The base of Trump Tower isn’t far above sea level.
“To criticize or speak out in any way was considered unamerican and borderline treasonous.
Remember, it was just 2009 up until 2016.”
Yes, the MSM fawned all over Obama. They ran interference for him and still do. They cover the positive things and cover up the negative.
The Republicans in Congress were also very hesitant about criticizing Obama for fear of being labeled a racist.
Compared to Trump, Obama had smooth sailing as far as news coverage goes and little criticism from Republicans, and what criticism there was from Repubicans in Congress focused on policy not personality.
AllenFrancesMD Is probably responsible than more deaths than anyone she mentioned…
I’m saying she cause the pic is of a woman….
JPP
No, its the old guy in the video…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1165648802042322949
or…
If this guy is a real psychiatrist why doesn’t the AMA remove him immediately? He is the one who is crazy!
..100% agree…Certifiable…yet CNN thinks he is good enough as an “expert !” lol
I sincerely hope Dr. Frances doesn’t have any patients. He is so disconnected from reality that it’s difficult to see how he could help someone with a psychiatric problem.
And how many believe Brian Stelter’s plea of distraction as the reason for why he did not interrupt?
This network is famous for letting not just guests but the anchors and commentators employed by the network, get away with making outrageous statements and claims and never being challenged for doing so.
And if ever they belatedly decide they disown a comment of opinion, it is always well after the fact, and done in a way few will notice.
They pointedly never make such a disclaimer in any way which will get as broad attention or as many eyeballs as the nutty things that were said.
Fortunately, not many people watch CNN these days. And with their ratings in free-fall, we may not have to put up with them for much longer.
Neurotics build castles in the air.
Psychotics live in them.
Psychiatrists charge the rent.
The numbers are in for Mao, Adolf and Josef, I am happy to let history decide this one.
As a psychology student I realised that most people are attracted to psychology for one of two reasons, either it’s free therapy or a need to control other people’s minds.
Why doesn’t this silly man not understand that there are many more millions of people in this world including meteorologists, scientists. etc. who are far more qualified than he, a simple psychiatrist, who are supportive of Mr Trumps views. Why do we have to put up with the ridiculous views of these quacks.
CNN the news channel dedicated to the downfall of DJT
I get better news from Tarrot cards.
Dr. Allen Frances is clearly certifiable, as for CNN, they have lost all credibility.
Well said, Barry! 🙂
Trump isn’t nuts, the media is. And psychiatry is nuts, too. Do you know how they came up with “mental illnesses”? They sat around a table coming up with names for behaviors and voted them into the DSM. There is nothing scientific about it. It’s the second biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.
If it had anything to do with science, there would not be entire categories which appear and then vanish with each and every iteration of the DSM.
And only very rarely is there any clinical findings that lead to when and what some thing is added or deleted.
In other words, as stated, they are basically just making it up as they go.
Gender dysphoria is a good example: It was once a clearly identified mental illness, requiring individual analysis and treatment.
But now it is considered bigoted and hateful to refuse to go along with such dysphoria when it arises in an individual, and those with this condition are being treated as if they are brave victims, while all who know them are being told they must validate these feelings and regard them as not just normal but instead rather desirable.
And all of this despite the knowledge that such people, when left with this condition, have an extreme rate of suicidal ideation and of actually succeeding in harming and/or killing themselves.
Wow. This is pretty ignorant.
Some “mental illnesses” are fake, or are mislabeled phenomena. Someone who has difficulty with shift work, which is patently unnatural, can be described as having “shift work disorder.” Fake.
Some should not be diagnosed because the cause is something else. If a child is not parented well, and as a result the child cannot get along with orderly society, the problem is “weak parenting.” And, a fitting diagnosis might be “undersocialized.” Which is actually a real diagnosis. But the kid may end up getting the “ADHD” or “Conduct Disorder” label. Erroneously applied.
A principle of psychiatric diagnosis is that you need to rule out other explanations. If a person is from a culture that regularly sees and communicates with their deceased relatives, you want to be slow to diagnose “schizophrenia.”
But some psychiatric diagnoses are extremely well-founded. I have been able to work in social service settings where we came across people who totally fit “schizophrenia” definition. They told us the thoughts being put in their head, that they were being observed, etc. The onsets in these people’s history is very consistent. Symptoms are consistent. Response to antipsychotic medications is consistent.
And, there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that a bunch of psychiatrists sat around and dreamed up schizophrenia, along with other diagnoses. Schizophrenia recognition grew across history, with jumps in recognition, such as with Schneider’s work in “first rank symptoms.” Modern recognition and definition span 1800 with Pinel to 1900 with Bleuler. And forward.
Across time, many concepts of diagnosis were developed. Circa 1950, the military wanted to have these unified in order to understand what problems they were addressing, to what degree, in psych care. So, they created te “DSM” / diagnostic and statistical manual. Basically, how many people with each syndrome, typified by these symptoms, do you have in your hospital?
This was an attempt to add rigor to diagnoses. DSMII similar. With DSMIII, the Am Psychiatric Assoc realized that there were different schools of thought behind diagnoses. To make the world more homogeneous, diagnoses officially became to be based on symptoms and patterns – on empirical evidence – and not on beliefs about how the problem developed. So, psychodynamic psychiatrists no longer could describe things as “neuroses,” meaning the problem arose from a neurosis. And behavioral-minded people like Skinner, etc., and social-context people like Bandura, could not have etiology be a basis. Just symptoms and patterns observed.
The knowledge about which diagnoses genuinely warrant recognition has mightily remained a great line of scholarly and clinical effort. Through DSMIV and DSMV. DSMV included a parallel set of publications, along with the list of diagnoses, and their criteria for diagnosis. This set of pulbications was the collected scholarly evidence, including the empirical stuff. So, you could select a diagnosis and go read a plethora of supporting information for the legitimacy / ontology of the dx, and its symptoms, etc.
The history of how we have regarded PTSD is quite well-documented. The “shell-shocked” of WWI were recognized. As time has gone on, we have developed to now perceive “PTSD.” If you do not know what this is, you might want to go talk to those who have experienced combat, and see what they or their buddies suffer with, post-exposure. Or, ra ppe victims. Yes, tell a set of ra ppe victims that their flashbacks, avoidance, nightmares, etc., is all just a bunch of hooey. Report back to us and tell us how that went.
Do some women falsely cry ra ppe? Sure. Do all women who have experienced this have ptsd? Maybe, maybe not. But I have heard plenty enough to believe in PTSD, from combat vets and ra ppe victims, and others whp experienced life-threatening events, and have similar symptoms following that.
Are the drug companies paying docs to make up more diagnoses, or to “expand'” existing ones, in order to sell more drugs? I am pretty sure this happens a great deal. This does not mean there is no such thing as a psychiatric dx.
Plenty is on wikipedia, and all over the web.
So, when in this history, say 1800 to 2000, was this committee convened to sit around and make up diagnoses? Do you mean the major meetings at which each successive DSM edition was reviewed and refined, per well-defined nosological criteria? Please tell us.
Physician, heal thyself.
This one needs a brain transplant
Psychiatry – the second biggest load of manure ever – second only to climate change: https://cchr.org.au/videos/experts/jeffrey-a-schaler-ph-d-professor-of-psychology
Following on from the mental professor’s thought process, it can’t be long before Pol Pot becomes a hero of the climate alarmists movement, thanks to his revolutionary efforts getting academics and other city based workers on to the land. They were taught how to work hard with their bare hands, to show how life must be lived in a totalitarian paradise.
That piece of social re-profiling, resulted in a net reduction of humanity. That was a good thing in the mind of the “woke progressives”, it shows exactly what can be achieved when those evil fossil fuels are taken away….
How offensive can anyone get? Trivializing the 100 million lives ended by Mao, Stalin, Lenin (who invented the “death camp”), and Pol Pot is the most horrific moral crime I can even imagine. Especially since there is no possible way to link President Trump to any deaths. These people are psychotic.
I voted for Mr. Trump because I knew, from first-hand experience, how corrupt Mrs. Clinton was. I didn’t have any opinion of him at the time. But after hearing him speak, and watching him work, I believe he is one of the few truly good elected official I have ever seen. Another was the late Congressman George E. Brown, Jr., a very liberal Democrat from the 42nd District of California (and a personal friend), so this isn’t a partisan perspective. It has only to do with the moral character of the person. Vice President Pence appeared on a talk radio show shortly before the 2016 election, and concluded his remarks with (paraphrasing) “I hope you will help elect this good man to the Presidency.”
He had an emphasis on the word “good” that struck me at the time. Now, I know what he meant.
If these folks get into power, we’ll see their re-education camps again, then their concentration camps again, and eventually their death camps…again.
These guys are always pointing fingers at the “dangerous” right wing white supremacists and neo-nazis. Those right wing nut jobs have no serious path to power, and their numbers are few. Their leaders are not powerful or well known or respected. But the Socialist “political offspring” of Stalin and Mao, and Pol Pot are certainly well known and are currently in the seats of power. And they are running the propaganda ministry (aka the Mainstream Media)…and they dominate the seats of Academia and they dominate the Entertainment Industry. These International Socialists are truly a danger to mankind and to freedom and prosperity everywhere…and to the survival of many millions if not billions (if they have their way…again).
Trump is not the reincarnation of communist evil…THEY ARE.
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And yet China is putting out more CO2 than America.
And Chinese CO2 emissions are increasing, while America’s are decreasing.
So who is the Big Green Ogre here – America or China…?
Ralph
I would be more than happy to cut off your energy meter for free. Let me know. Buy your solar panels and wind mills and let the world know how they are working for you.
“For evil to succeed, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing”.
Edmund Burke
Here we are 250 years on from that prophetic truth, and it is more appropriate today than it was back in 1795!
We have to stand up and fight back against the tyranny of climate alarmists.
Surely someone can get the message across that the Greenhouse Effect is non-existent except inside a greenhouse. By my calculation, back-radiation cannot cause anywhere near enough energy to increase the temperature of the Earth by the 33 degree Kelvin Greenhouse Effect. Furthermore, if there was such an effect, the back-radiation of the incoming Sun’s energy out into space would be at least fifty times greater than any internal back-radiation causing the Earth to cool as CO2 concentration increased. See https://www.climateauditor.com under “Greenhouse Effect”.
Interesting, Bevan. I’d be interested to know how your info jibes with the data below.
The ‘transition temperature’ at which the combined translational mode energy of two colliding molecules can begin exciting a radiative molecule’s vibrational mode quantum states dictates when that radiative molecule changes from being a net warming molecule (transfer of vibrational mode energy to translational mode energy) to a net cooling molecule (transfer of translational mode energy to vibrational mode energy).
Obviously the temperature at which the combined translational mode energy of two colliding molecules will be sufficient to excite any particular molecular species’ vibrational mode quantum states will be different between molecular species, but the concept holds true for any molecular species capable of emitting radiation.
For CO2, that ‘transition temperature’ is ~288 K.
The public has been told only half the story as regards energetic interactions of atmospheric molecules. They’ve been told CO2 causes warming by conversion of vibrational mode energy to translational mode energy under all conditions… and that this process can cause catastrophic warming. Yes, CO2 can cause warming under certain circumstances… up to a certain temperature and at certain altitudes.
The below is what they’re not being told… that above ~288 K, the combined translational mode energy of two colliding molecules is sufficient to begin significantly vibrationally exciting CO2, which increases the time duration during which CO2 is vibrationally excited and therefore the probability that it radiatively emits.
The vibrational mode quantum state energy levels of CO2:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190702044509/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/725111.pdf
The energetic pathways by which translational mode (kinetic) energy (which we sense as temperature) is converted to vibrational mode energy then to radiation (utilizing modern nomenclature and accounting for higher vibrational mode quantum states).
X (at ~288K+) + CO2{v20(0)} (at ~288K+) –> X + CO2{v21(1)} –> CO2{v20(0)} + 667.4 cm-1
X (at ~288.1K+) + CO2{v21(1)} (at ~288.1K+) –> X + CO2{v22(2)} –> CO2{v21(1)} + 667.8 cm–1 –> CO2{v20(0)} + 667.4 cm-1
X (at ~288.2K+) + CO2{v22(2)} (at ~288.2K+) –> X + CO2{v23(3)} –> CO2{v22(2)} + 668.10 cm–1 –> CO2{v21(1)} + 667.8 cm–1 –> CO2{v20(0)} + 667.4 cm-1
X denotes any atmospheric molecule. The Equipartition Theorem dictates that all molecules at exactly the same temperature will have exactly the same translational mode energy, regardless of their molecular weight. Lower molecular weight molecules will have a higher speed, whereas higher molecular weight molecules will have a lower speed, but at the same temperature, they’ll all have the same translational mode (kinetic) energy.
In order for CO2 to be vibrationally excited, it requires the energy equivalent to a 14.98352 µm photon, equating to a CO2 speed of 425.92936688660114 m/s or an N2 speed of 533.8549080851558 m/s. For CO2, the Boltzmann Factor probability of one of its molecules being at a speed of 425.92936688660114 m/s; and for N2, the Boltzmann Factor probability of one of its molecules being at a speed of 533.8549080851558 m/s is 0.8461 at 288 K. In other words, at 288 K, for every 100 molecules which are at the Most Probable Speed, another ~84 molecules will be at the speed necessary to vibrationally excite CO2.
The Maxwell-Boltzmann Speed Distribution of N2 and CO2 at 288K:
You’ll note the ratio between the top-left and top-right ‘fraction of gas’, and the bottom-left and bottom-right ‘fraction of gas’ in the image above is ~0.84… the Boltzmann Factor probability mentioned prior (0.8461 at 288 K).
The conversion of translational mode energy (which we sense as temperature) to vibrational mode energy is, by definition, a cooling process.
The emission of the resultant radiation to space is, by definition, a cooling process.
An increased atmospheric CO2 concentration will increase the likelihood of atmospheric molecular collision with CO2, thereby increasing the likelihood of CO2 radiatively emitting, thereby increasing the radiative cooling effect.
Therefore, CAGW is a physical impossibility by the above interactions alone.
But there are other interactions:
X (at ~288K+) + N2{v1(0)} (at ~288K+) –> X + N2{v1(1)} –> N2{v1(1)} + CO2{v20(0)} –> N2{v1(0)} + CO2{v3(1)} –> CO2{v1(1)} + 961.54 cm-1
X (at ~288K+) + N2{v1(0)} (at ~288K+) –> X + N2{v1(1)} –> N2{v1(1)} + CO2{v20(0)} –> N2{v1(0)} + CO2{v3(1)} –> CO2{v20(2)} + 1063.83 cm-1
We can use the Boltzmann Factor to determine the vibrationally excited population of N2 due to translational-vibrational (t-v) collisional processes.
N2{v1(1)} (stretch) mode at 2345 cm-1 (4.26439 µm), correcting for anharmonicity, centrifugal distortion and vibro-rotational interaction
1 cm-1 = 11.9624 J mol-1
2345 cm-1 = 2345 * 11.9624 / 1000 = 28.051828 kJ mol-1
The Boltzmann factor at 288 K has the value 1 / (2805.1828 / 288R) = 0.10266710 which means that 10.26671% of N2 molecules are in the N2{v1(1)} excited state due to translational-vibrational (t-v) processes.
Given that CO2 constitutes 0.041% of the atmosphere (410 ppm), and N2 constitutes 78.08% of the atmosphere (780800 ppm), this means that 4.1984 ppm of CO2 is excited to its {v3} mode quantum state via collisional translational-to-vibrational (t-v) processes, whereas 80162.3936 ppm of N2 is excited via the same (t-v) processes. This is a ratio of 1 vibrationally excited CO2 to 19093 vibrationally excited N2. You’ll note this is 10.028 times higher than the total CO2:N2 ratio of 1:1904, and 195 times more vibrationally excited N2 molecules than all CO2 molecules (vibrationally excited or not). Thus energy will flow from the higher-energy and higher-concentration vibrationally-excited N2 to vibrationally ground-state CO2.
The conversion of translational mode energy (which we sense as temperature) to vibrational mode energy of N2 is by definition, a cooling process.
The transfer of that N2 vibrational mode energy to vibrational mode energy of CO2, then that energy being emitted to space as radiation is, by definition, a cooling process. The resultant radiation from the last two energetic pathways is in the Infrared Atmospheric Window, thus any upwelling radiation has a nearly unfettered path out to space.
An increased atmospheric CO2 concentration will increase the likelihood of vibrationally-excited N2 colliding with CO2, thereby increasing the likelihood of CO2 radiatively emitting, thereby increasing the radiative cooling effect.
Five energetic pathways which show that CAGW (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming due to CO2) is a physical impossibility.
If a process (catastrophic atmospheric warming due to CO2) cannot occur at the quantum level, it most certainly cannot occur macroscopically.