John Rofe
Private Fraud Investigator
“The only things that are infinite are the universe and human stupidity. But I am not sure about the Universe.”
Albert Einstein
Despite the obvious…we never believe the truth when so many folk discourage us from doing so.
The sun is the source of 99.5+% of Earth’s energy, and because the sun’s rays heat the land, sea and atmosphere, the climate at any point will depend to an extent on the divergence of latitude from where the sun is directly overhead at noon. Latitude has a major influence on climate.
The temperature of the air becomes less with height by about 6.5 oC per kilometre of altitude. At ten kilometres above the earth’s surface, we hit the stratosphere where there are few weather effects and it is too frigid for life as we know it. So the climate is also affected by altitude.
Within a 10 kilometre band circling the earth, there is an ocean in the sky. It consists of clouds, water vapour and air. It contains between 15-20 trillion tonnes of water and that is augmented by about 420 trillion tonnes of evaporation and dissipated by a similar quantity of precipitation each year. The water vapour content of air varies from 0.2% to 4%. We are told this has little effect on climate, although it clearly does because the heat content of water is very much larger than that for air.
Within that band we know there are a number of so-called “greenhouse gases” of which by far the most influential is water, in vapour and of course in clouds. By volume, water vapour on average is more than 96% of all “greenhouse gases”, and, by potency, from its radiative effect alone, water vapour is 80% more potent on incoming solar radiation and 92% more potent in limiting outgoing heat (by infrared re-radiation) than the other incondensible trace gases. We know that water is unique and it can change between the gas, liquid and solid phase with 28 separate but non-radiative effects including large changes in heat content (enthalpy).
Water vapour (unlike carbon dioxide) is lighter than air, so with the heat of evaporation, it rises, then is eventually nucleated into tiny droplets to form clouds. From the clouds comes precipitation which then transfers the cooled water from the sky to earth as rain, snow or hail.
We have only been able to ignore the effect of changes to the ocean in the sky because the level of humidity varies rapidly and hugely from place to place and from time to time. We all see the clouds moving across our field of vision but the same is happening to humidity in the air around us, as heat moves from areas of warmth to cold, and from high air pressure to low air pressure. It is water vapour that regulates and influences our climate from time to time and from place to place.
This is why I can take off by plane from Auckland with a temperature of 26 oC at 12 noon and land in Christchurch, 7 degrees of latitude farther south, at 1.15 pm, at the same altitude as I started, where the temperature is already 32 oC. Yet the only variable of climate and weather between them is the absolute humidity. This fact is ignored by the scientists and the politicians alike who drive the Great Global Warming fraud. The impact of the only greenhouse gas of significance is all around us. We take it for granted. Jacinda Ardern and the UN IPCC all blame CO2 for climate effects – but only because it suits them to mislead us.
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