“Climate Scientists” Misapplied Basic Physics

A mistake in climate model architecture changes everything. Heat trapped by increasing carbon dioxide just reroutes to space from water vapor instead.

The scare over carbon dioxide was just due to a simple modelling error. A whole category of feedbacks was omitted, which greatly exaggerated the calculated sensitivity to carbon dioxide.

The scientists who believe in the carbon dioxide theory of global warming do so essentially because of the application of “basic physics” to climate, by a model that is ubiquitous and traditional in climate science. This model is rarely named, but is sometimes referred to as the “forcing-feedback framework/paradigm.” Explicitly called the “forcing-feedback model” (FFM) here, this pen-and-paper model estimates the sensitivity of the global temperature to increasing carbon dioxide.

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Nassim Haramein - Fraud or Sage?

A very smart and very nice physics/math teacher in the UK does a brilliant job of explaining why this viral phenomenon doesn't add up to much!

Please do click on the various links within his post because you will have a fun ride with all the info plus a lot of ammo in case one of your friends gets hooked on this guy's snake oil (like one of my friends did).

Besides, it's a fascinating subject!

The Universe’s Exit Door, The Point Of No Return Measured For The First Time

For the first time, an international team has measured the radius of a black hole.

The point of no return: In astronomy, it’s known as a black hole — a region in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.

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Bang Bang

This question of accounting for what we call the "big bang state" -- the search for a physical explanation of it -- is probably the most important question within the philosophy of cosmology, and there are a couple different lines of thought about it. One that's becoming more and more prevalent in the physics community is the idea that the big bang state itself arose out of some previous condition, and that therefore there might be an explanation of it in terms of the previously existing dynamics by which it came about. There are other ideas, for instance that maybe there might be special sorts of laws, or special sorts of explanatory principles, that would apply uniquely to the initial state of the universe.

What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology

Hat Tip: InstaPundit

The greenhouse effect appears to violate basic laws of physics!

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