Exposing this lie to the viewers didnt set well with some people, include the supposed fairness watchdogs over at Media Matters, who called the analysis a waste of time. Of course its only a waste of time when you prove their man Gore was faking the whole thing, otherwise they wouldnt care. Personally I consider it a badge of honor for them to take notice because they usually reserve such vitriol for high profile news they dont like, so apparently I have arrived.
The reason why I took so much time then to show this chicanery was Mr. Gores pronouncement in an interview the day the video aired.
His specific claim was:
The deniers claim that its some kind of hoax and that the global scientific community is lying to people, he said. Its not a hoax, its high school physics.
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Note the values for Air and for CO2 that I highlighted in the 300K column. 300K is 80.3°F.
Air is a better conductor of heat than CO2.
So, here is what I think is going on with Mr. Gores Climate 101 experiment.
As we know, the Climate101 video used infrared heat lamps.
The glass cookie jars chosen dont allow the full measure of infrared from the lamps to enter the center of the jar and affect the gas. I showed this two different ways with the infrared camera in videos above.
During the experiments, I showed the glass jars heating up using the infrared camera. Clearly they were absorbing the infrared energy from the lamps.
The gases inside the jars, air and pure CO2 thus had to be heated by secondary heat emission from the glass as it was being heated. They were not absorbing infrared from the lamps, but rather heat from contact with the glass.
Per the engineering table, air is a better conductor of heat than pure CO2, so it warms faster, and when the lamps are turned off, it cools faster.
The difference value of 2°F shown in the Climate 101 video split screen was never met in any of the experiments I performed.
The condition stated in the Climate 101 video of Within minutes you will see the temperature of the bottle with the carbon dioxide in it rising faster and higher. was not met in any of the experiments I performed. In fact it was exactly the opposite. Air consistently warmed faster than CO2.
Thus, the experiment as designed by Mr. Gore does not show the greenhouse effect as we know it in our atmosphere, it does show how heat transfer works and differences in heat transfer rates with different substances, but nothing else.
Mr. Gores Climate 101 experiment is falsified, and could not work given the equipment he specified. If they actually tried to perform the experiment themselves, perhaps this is why they had to resort to stagecraft in the studio to fake the temperature rise on the split screen thermometers.
The experiment as presented by Al Gore and Bill Nye the science guy is a failure, and not representative of the greenhouse effect related to CO2 in our atmosphere. The video as presented, is not only faked in post production, the premise is also false and could never work with the equipment they demonstrated. Even with superior measurement equipment it doesnt work, but more importantly, it couldnt work as advertised.
The design failure was the glass cookie jar combined with infrared heat lamps.
Gore FAIL.
