To the editor:
The 9-11-2021 ‘Biden’s ambitious solar plan’ states that solar panels are a step toward countering the climate crisis.
Reducing the use of fossil fuels for power generation will do nothing to fix the ‘climate crisis’. Here’s why:
Our contribution to the global reservoir of atmospheric CO2 is much too small to have any effect. Even a 2020 Bloomberg article said the COVID-19 pandemic brought down air pollution due to drop in fossil fuel usage; but had no effect on rising atmospheric CO2 level.
Look at the NOAA annual mean growth rate of CO2 chart covering 1960 through present at Mauna Loa observatory. We see that it dropped to .28 and .48 ppm for years 1964 and 1992. Did people suddenly burn less coal and oil those years? No, it was Mt. Agung (1963-64) and Mt. Pinatubo (1991-92) blasting about one cubic mile of ash into the air to a height of some 22 miles. This causes a shading/cooling effect on the ocean which then expels less CO2.
Water vapor, a greenhouse gas, traps about 1,300 times more heat than man’s CO2. That’s based on a 1% global atmospheric water vapor content; however it can at times go up to 4% in places. Even a somewhat small up or down change in the massive quantity of water vapor may release or absorb far more heat, and therefore have more effect on temperature, than would a doubling of our current tiny CO2 level. Oceans have a huge effect on water vapor level depending on amount of cloud cover blocking the sun’s energy, and, what the 40,000-mile under-sea volcanic mountain chain happens to be belching out at any given time.
In 2020, Communist Red China accounted for 75% of all new coal powered plants worldwide. They stated this is to provide energy security. Having saddled ourselves with the ‘Made in China’ label on nearly everything we touch, we’re in no position to make them to adopt our ‘Fake CO2 Crisis’, nor most any other policy. Tennessee Ernie Ford sung “I owe my soul to the company store” Today’s ‘company store’ is China.
Phil Drietz
Delhi
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