Fraud of CO2 and AGW

The Cap and Trade bill is in the Senate and we say it was written on false science. Billions were spent proving anthropogenic global warming, but you can show it is a fraud in any south-facing window sill with $25 worth of equipment and materials. Or, much less if you are a school science teacher and your students should see this.

Get three two-liter clear plastic, colorless, bottles of soda. Three laboratory “stick” thermometers with a zero to 110° Celsius range. Carolina Biological Supply sells thermometers and the Drierite™ dessicant you will also need.

 “Drierite” is anhydrous calcium sulfate fired to remove all water normally bound molecularly. It is about $10 per pound with shipping and for three thermometers add another $15.

After emptying clear cola bottles remove labels, rinse and dry them. Holes for thermometers are made with a hot soldering iron, heated nail, awl tip or Phillips screwdriver. The hot tool must of smaller diameter than thermometers for tight fitting.

Heat the nail, awl or icepick over a gas burner or small torch for a minute and then push it into the top while on the bottle. With the plastic still soft push the thermometer into place. The thermometer will freeze in place, but not be very difficult to remove later; just be gentle.

When all the thermometers are in place seal them by dripping candle wax around insertion areas if there is any doubt of their sealing.

Calibrate thermometers by reading them simultaneously, while lying side-by-side. With one as the standard correlate the other two within 0.2º C you can discern with a magnifying glass.

Put a half cup of dessicant in a pie pan in a 250ºF oven for a few hours to insure the sulfate is absolutely dry. Let the oven cool closed. Pour the material into one bottle with a paper funnel and install a sealed in thermometer cap.

In the next two liter bottle put 100 ml, ½ cup, of water to simulate air over water as is 70% of Earth. The last two liter polycarbonate flask gets 100 ml of “Liquid Plummer™” or similar if the ingredients include only sodium hydroxide and water. Both bottles are sealed with thermometer bearing caps.

The bottles should stand for three days for dessicant and sodium hydroxide to capture water vapor and carbon dioxide respectively. The water in the sodium hydroxide solution saturates enclosed air like water in the third bottle as CO2 is the issue. We sequester it as carbonate in solution.

Finally, we put aluminum foil “hats” on the bottles to shade thermometers from direct sunlight. The demonstration works best behind a glass window as direct sunlight is so strong it mists the two liquid holding bottles and like clouds reflect light to reduce heating. The bottles must be clear for a good trial.

Data show the dry air bottle was one full Celsius degree below that with water or sodium hydroxide aqueous solution. The bottle with sodium hydroxide heated the same as that with water. The removal of carbon dioxide had no detectable effect. It was a true “trace gas,” utterly insignificant while water vapor is responsible for atmospheric heating.. Therefore, anthropogenic global warming is a fraud and this is a $25 proof that should be part of the debate on Cap and Trade in the Senate.

Adrian Vance