Climate Basics Quotes

“Key: The primary source of warmth is the sun Solar wind was discovered as a driving force in Earth’s climate by Henrik Svensmark and others. The more active is the sun, the more solar wind it emits, and this pushes against the cosmic rays bombarding the solar system from distant stars (supernovae). When there is more solar wind, there are fewer cosmic rays that make it to Earth, and fewer clouds formed from the nucleation process (cloud chamber effect). When there are fewer clouds, the Earth becomes warmer, because more sunlight makes it down to the surface. When the sun is relatively inactive, producing less solar wind, more cosmic rays make it to Earth’s atmosphere, stimulating the formation of more clouds, reflecting more sunlight and cooling down the planet. This one effect has been shown to produce a far greater correlation with global temperature than most other factors. Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, shows virtually no correlation with temperature on nearly every time scale. On the one time scale with a strong correlation between CO2 and temperature, temperature drives CO2 abundance; not the other way around. Carbon dioxide is such a weak influence on temperature that, though CO2 continued to increase in the paleoclimate record, temperatures fell despite the increasing carbon dioxide levels. Temperatures”
― Rod Martin Jr., Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear

“The key reason that global warming is good is that we still live in an Ice Age. This may come as a shock to some people.”
― Rod Martin Jr., Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear

“When you listen to the news and hear of droughts and floods, remember that the corporations need profits and news makes profits by making the news seem alarming.”
― Rod Martin Jr., Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear

“When you warm up our Earth, melting all that polar ice, you end up reducing the overall temperature difference on the planet.”
― Rod Martin Jr., Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear

“Warmer oceans will result in hurricanes becoming stronger, because those cool winds will be passing over warmer waters, generating more energy. It’s kind of like a battery. The greater the voltage (sometimes called “potential”), the brighter your light burns. Temperature difference is like the voltage in a battery.”
― Rod Martin Jr., Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear

“Hot air expands, causing high pressure. Cold air contracts, causing low pressure. See?”
― Rod Martin Jr., Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear