Saturday, July 27, 2013
How would you test it?
Following on previous entry. Far as I can tell, the theory at the base of the Carbon Cult has never been properly tested. The Cultists insist that CO2 is a "greenhouse gas" without any experimental evidence.
How would you properly test it? A proper experiment should approximate a scaled-down chunk of the real world with (ahem) nothing arbitrary, nothing artificial. And it should be able to control exactly one variable without affecting any other variables. You wouldn't want an enclosed top, because we know that actual glass greenhouses do in fact retain heat by an obvious mechanism. You wouldn't want artificial air or artificial light; you'd want real sun and real atmosphere, with all its gaseous and particulate components. Nothing added, but one thing subtracted under control.
This rig illustrates the idea. Lots of open-top cells, naturally filled with the local atmosphere. (Polistra is using 9 cells, but you'd want hundreds.) Each cell has a perforated 'sucker' running down its center. Half of these suckers include a catalyst or absorber (red rods here) that constantly removes a little bit of CO2, and the other half (blue rods) just suck the same volume of all air. Suckers are controlled to keep a constant difference in Percent CO2 between the catalyst cells and the sucker cells. The two types should be interspersed so neither has an advantage in sunlight, and the whole shebang should be rotated slowly for the same purpose.
Result: the catalyst cells will consistently contain less CO2 than the non-catalyst cells. Measure the temperature and see what happens.
Result: the catalyst cells will consistently contain less CO2 than the non-catalyst cells. Measure the temperature and see what happens.Labels: Carbon Cult, Metrology
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