{"id":261991,"date":"2023-06-13T19:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=261991"},"modified":"2023-06-13T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:37:37","slug":"new-research-only-2-of-every-100000-co2-molecules-radiate-photons-and-this-controls-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=261991","title":{"rendered":"New Research: Only 2 Of Every 100,000 CO2 Molecules Radiate Photons. And This Controls Climate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>12. June 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Examining the beliefs underpinning the assumption that humans are heating up the planet can be enlightening.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A book focusing on CO2 storage has recently been published by two geophysicists (Amundsen and Landro, 2023<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using insights from Svante Arrhenius, the late 19th century founding \u201cfather of climate change<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d the authors assess that the radiative lifetime of CO2 de-excitation in the atmosphere is about 1.1 seconds. During this time span (1.1 seconds), an estimated 2,620 collisions with N2 and O2 molecules occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly all \u2013 99,998 out of every 100,000 \u2013 CO2 molecules do not radiate photons, but instead re-excite through collisions. Just 2 of 100,000 CO2 molecules radiate photons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the CO2 molecules that absorb infrared energy from the Earth\u2019s surface, about 1 of every 20 (5%) participate in the photon radiation process about 3-4 km above the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, if the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has increased by 1 part in 10,000 since 1950 (0.032% to 0.042%), and even if 100% of this one-one-hundredths of a percentage point change is due to human activity, it still can be said that humans have had a vanishingly small impact on the atmospheric CO2 radiation process.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Amundsen and Landro, 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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