What Really Causes Global Warming? : Greenhouse Gases or Ozone Depletion?

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword A More Persuasive Truth -- Preface -- Notes for the Reader -- Special Thanks -- Overview Climate Is Never "Settled," and Neither Is Science -- Chapter 1 How I Came to Wonder About Climate Change -- Living More Safely With Earthquakes -- Living More Safely With Volcanic Eruptions -- Living More Safely With Climate -- Discovering a More Likely Cause of Global Warming -- Chapter 2 Could Climate Change Science Be Mistaken? -- Adapting to Change -- What Is Science? -- Is There a Role For Belief in Science? -- Scientists and Politicians Have Worked Well Together -- Where Am I Coming From? -- Where Am I (and You) Going? -- Chapter 3 Why Did Global Temperatures Stop Increasing in 1998? -- Temperature Trends -- The Stark Divergence Between Increasing Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Invariant Temperature -- Rationalizing the Role of Natural Variations in Climate -- The Ozone Depletion Theory of Global Warming -- Chapter 4 Do We Really Understand Thermal Energy? -- What Is Light? -- What Is an Electromagnetic Field? -- What Is Energy? -- What Is Thermal Energy? -- What Is Radiation? -- What Is Temperature? -- A Problem With Spectral Radiance As Used in Planck's Law -- Energy Is Clearly Observed to Increase With Increasing Frequency of Oscillation -- Why Can't Thermal Energy Propagate as Waves? -- Why Can't Thermal Energy Propagate as Photons? -- Potential Radiant Temperature and the Amplitude of Oscillation -- Thermal Energy Is a Spectrum of Frequencies -- Chapter 5 How Does the Atmosphere Protect Earth From Sun's "Hottest" Radiation? -- How Does the Upper Atmosphere Absorb the Highest Energy Solar Radiation? -- How Does Oxygen Absorb Solar Radiation? -- How Does the Ozone Layer Protect Earth from Sun's "Hottest" Radiation?.

What Is the Primary Radiative Surface of the Earth System? -- Chapter 6 How Do Minute Amounts of Ozone Control Climate? -- What Is the Ozone-Oxygen Cycle? -- How Is Ozone Distributed by Latitude and Season? -- Depletion of Ozone by CFC Gases -- The Polar Jet Stream and the Polar Vortex -- Ground-Level Ozone -- How Minute Amounts of Ozone Help Control Weather -- Chapter 7 How Does Temperature Change With Ozone Depletion? -- The Antarctic Ozone Hole -- Arctic Amplification -- Mid-Latitudes -- Chapter 8 How Can Volcanoes Both Cool and Warm Earth? -- How Do Explosive Volcanic Eruptions Cool Earth? -- How Does a Sequence of Large, Explosive, Volcanic Eruptions Increment the World Into an Ice Age? -- How Do Effusive Volcanic Eruptions Warm Earth? -- How Do the Properties of Explosive and Effusive Volcanic Eruptions Compare? -- How Does Volcanism Deplete Ozone? -- How Common Is Abrupt Climate Change? -- Why Does Ozone Peak in the Year in Which Volcanoes Erupt? -- Summary of How Volcanic Eruptions Cool and Warm Earth -- Chapter 9 How Do Volcanic Eruptions Affect Weather? -- What Is the Link Between Ozone and Weather? -- Warming and Drought in Toronto During 2012 and 2013 -- What Caused the "Weird" Weather of 2014 and 2015? -- Chapter 10 Why Does the Greenhouse Effect Appear Not to be Correct? -- Can Radiation From a Thermal Body Actually Warm the Same Body? -- Does the Greenhouse Effect Slow the Rate of Cooling of Earth? -- Does the Greenhouse Effect Violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics? -- Is Su cient Energy Absorbed by Greenhouse Gases to Cause Global Warming? -- Do Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide Increase Before Temperatures Increase? -- Are Increases in Temperature and Carbon Dioxide Concentrations Contemporaneous throughout Geologic Time? -- Other Problems With the Greenhouse Effect -- Summary.

Chapter 11 What Are Some Other Implications of Light Being a Continuum of Frequency? -- Energy Equals Frequency Times a Constant -- So What Is a Quantum? -- What Is Quantum Entanglement? -- What Is Dark Energy? -- What Is Dark Matter? -- Is the Universe Expanding? -- What Is Gravity? -- Moving On -- Chapter 12 How Could Science Have Been So Far Off the Mark? -- The Critical Importance of Observations -- Fundamental Questions in Physics -- The Role of the IPCC -- Consensus Science -- The Importance of Critical Questioning and Replication -- Chapter 13 Where Do We Go From Here? -- World Population and the Escalating Need for Resources -- Increased Need for Understanding -- Climate Disaster Is Never Far Away -- Listening to Earth -- Glossary -- About the Author -- End Notes -- Index.

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