date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:55:52 -0000
from: "Scott Betts" <scott@scottbetts.wanadoo.co.uk>
subject: RE: 
to: <P.Jones@uea.ac.uk>

Thankyou for your reply, and my apologies for the late response.

I read it with interest. Unfortunately, it doesn't deal with any of the
factors mentioned, or present a detailed explanation of the argument or the
crucial calculations backing the assumptions behind temperature calculations
as they relate to c02, so I therefore assume that they are not in the public
domain.

Sincerely

Scott

Sincerely

scott

-----Original Message-----
From: P.Jones@uea.ac.uk [mailto:P.Jones@uea.ac.uk] 
Sent: 01 January 2009 15:40
To: scott@scottbetts.wanadoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: 



 Scott,
   Have you looked at the 2007 IPCC Report - especially Chapter 2
 on Radiative Forcing?

 Cheers
 Phil


> Dear Sir,
>
>
>
> I would be interested in some sort of response to the following question:
> So far I haven't found any sources which can empirically verify the causal
> causal connection between Carbon dioxide and temperature
>
>
>
> Given 80 millions tons of anthropogenic carbon dioxide, (22 million tons
> of
> carbon) what, in your understanding in terms of the climate, its
> sensitivity, and the proportion of anthropogenic carbon dioxide to all
> c02,
> and in turn, to the whole atmosphere does this represent, and what does it
> do to the temperature?
>
>
>
> As I understand it the following factors should be taken into account
>
>
>
> 1) all c02 is 0.038% of the atmosphere,
>
>
>
> 2) that some 3% of that fraction is annually anthropogenic
>
>
>
> 3) c02 delays outgoing heat at 15microns in the spectroscopic absortion
> range
>
>
>
> 4) outgoing radiation is between 0 and 1% of the heat budget,
>
>
>
> 5) c02 moves bewtween air and oceans, soils and other sinks quite quickly.
>
>
>
> 6) There are 3067 gigatons of c02 in the atmosphere
>
>
>
> 7) the first 50ppm of c02 delays that fractional (5% of 0-1% heat budget)
> heat transfer into space, and anything additional only increases the
> metric
> range of this delay, and not the heat absorption, due to its logarithmic
> absorption factor.
>
>
>
> 8) only the carbon particle, and not the 2 oxygen particles have this
> effect.
>
>
>
> 9) given natural variability, over 98% of carbon dioxide fluctuations are
> naturally occurring. 10) At a constant temperature, the amount of a given
> gas dissolved in a given type and volume of liquid is directly
> proportional
> to the partial pressure of that gas in equilibrium with that liquid.
> (oceans), and finally
>
>
>
> 11) that oceans and vegetation absorbs c02 exponentially and not
> logarithmically.
>
>
>
> Sincerely
>
>
>
> Scott Betts
>
>