Could the thermometers that the climate alarmists rely on for their apocalyptic warming models be measuring the temperature incorrectly? Could be:
An independent climate science think tank produces evidence from a leading infrared thermometer manufacturer proving that climatologists were mistakenly taking incorrect readings of atmospheric temperatures. Latest findings are set to trigger a paradigm shift in climate science.
Researchers from Canada, USA, Mexico and Britain this week announce a startling discovery that destroys 20 years’ of thinking among government climatologists.
Climate scientists had long believed infrared thermometers measured thermal radiation from the atmosphere and assumed it was ‘proof’ of the greenhouse gas effect (GHE). Their assumption was that infrared thermometers (IRT’s) were measuring ‘back radiated’ heat from greenhouse gases (including water vapor and carbon dioxide). But damning new evidence proves IRT’s do no such thing.
Now a world-leading manufacturer of these high-tech instruments, Mikron Instrument Company Inc., has confirmed that IRT’s are deliberately set to AVOID registering any feedback from greenhouse gases. Thus climate scientists were measuring everything but the energy emitted by carbon dioxide and water vapor.
One of the researchers involved, Alan Siddons, has analyzed the GHE for over six years. He has long condemned the practice of using IRT’s as a means of substantiating the increasingly discredited hypothesis.
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I don't get it, why did it take 20 years for the manufacturers to say how the IR thermometers work.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd kill your sales?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOne would think that people would actually read the manual coming with the product.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaybe because the scientists who were using this data in error provided the following scientific explanation:
"Shut up!"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe Mikron Instrument paper on which this post relies is not accurately quoted in the report cited here. Here is what the Mikron paper says:
"Some common examples of selective spectral responses are 8-14 microns, which avoids interference from atmospheric moisture over long path measurements; 7.9 microns which is used for the measurement of some thin film plastics; and 3.86 microns which avoids interference from CO2 and H2O vapour in flames and combustion gases." See link:
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But here is what the cited report says:
"MIC [Mikron] goes further to advise that IRT’s are routinely calibrated for selective spectral responses of only 8-14 microns [footnote 2.]. The company says IRT's are set to evade atmospheric moisture over long path measurements. This, they say, is necessary to “avoid interference from CO2 and H2O.” See link:
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Plainly, the claim that the 8-14 micron setting is chosen to omit CO2 and H2O is not what the Mikron paper says. The cited report omits both the Mikron paper's identification of the 3.86 micron setting and the explanation that the CO2 and the H2O in issue is that associated with flames and combustion gases.
The 8-14 micron setting is chosen to omit the effects of atmospheric moisture. This may mean what the authors of the report say it means, namely, that it removes greenhouse gas effects, but the report needs to make that argument on its own and not mis-quote the Mikron paper as if the Mikron paper made that point on its own.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis effects a whole bunch of research papers, but not the global temperature record. The land-based global records (GISSTemp & HadCrut) are made-up nonsense anyway, as Steve McIntyre, Anthony Watts, and the Climategate emails have shown.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Their assumption was that infrared thermometers (IRT’s) were measuring ‘back radiated’ heat from greenhouse gases (including water vapor and carbon dioxide)."
Considering the temperatures in higher levels of the atmosphere, their assumption is seriously "ass". Such a back radiation isn't possible due to the laws of thermodynamics. The higher you are, the colder it gets.
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