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MARTIN HERTZBERG REPLY TO LETTER

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Reply to letter: Martin Hertzberg: What Doesn’t Add Up

Saturday, September 15th 2012, 7:14 AM EDT

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Dear all

Shown below is my letter to the editor of the Stanford Alumni Magazine. It appeared only in the on-line edition.

(www.stanfordmag.org). You can probably guess why it was not published in the print edition:

Letter to the Editor: What Doesn’t Add Up

Ted Arbuckle’s letter (“Research Flaws,” July/August) correctly points out that “climate science,” which promotes the fear of anthropogenic global warming, has ignored the scientific method because of the money to be made in perpetuating the theory, in the same way that drug and biomedical research is often biased to produce the desired outcomes given the large sums of money involved. As a result, he points out that those of us who disagree with that fabricated “consensus” have our scientific credentials challenged and are denigrated as “deniers.” Their claim that the science is settled provides them with an excuse for refusing to discuss the science involved.

Arbuckle calls for someone to investigate climate change science because “something doesn’t add up.” So let me try.

I became a graduate student at Stanford after serving as a forecasting and research meteorologist in the U.S. Navy. I had learned what climatologists and meteorologists had known for about a century and what most who call themselves climate scientists apparently never learned. Weather and climate are controlled by natural laws on an enormous scale that dwarfs human activity. Those laws engender forces and motions in our atmosphere and oceans that are beyond human control.

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Reply to article: Martin Hertzberg: The Carbon tax

Thursday, August 30th 2012, 10:31 AM EDT

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If Prof. Frank had done his science homework by researching the totality of the climatological data rather than regurgitating the cherry-picked, fear mongering hysteria of environmental lobbyists, he would have realized that a carbon tax will have no effect either on atmospheric CO2 or the weather.

His "hottest 12 month period of record" in the US was accompanied by average global temperatures that were quite normal. Blocking high pressures are quite common during the warmer months. They give cloudless skies when the Sun is nearest to Zenith, descending air which is adiabatically heated and dried, giving heat waves and droughts. They are quite common and have nothing to do with atmospheric CO2. The recent one in the U S was rather mild compared to the ones in the mid 1930's that gave us the "dust bowl" at a time when human CO2 emission was much lower than it is today.

So in case the Times is really interested in presenting an accurate analysis rather than aiding and abetting one of the greatest frauds in the history of science, I have attached an article for your consideration, in the hope that you will at least begin to set the record straight on this issue.

The Lynching of Carbon Dioxide by Dr. Martin Hertzberg

I served as a forecasting and research meteorologist while on active duty with the U. S. Navy. It was then that I first learned what climatologists and meteorologists have known for centuries and what the current crop of so-called “climate scientists” and EPA administrators apparently never learned: that weather and climate are controlled by natural laws on an enormous scale that dwarfs human activity. Those laws engender forces and motions in our atmosphere and oceans that are beyond human control. Weather and climate existed long before humans appeared on Earth, and will continue to exist in the same way long after we are gone.

MARTIN HERTZBERG HEADLINE STORY

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Martin Hertzberg: The Night Time Radiative Transport Between the Earth's Surface, it's Atmosphere, and Free Space

Thursday, August 9th 2012, 5:55 PM EDT

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Estimates are made for the exchange of radiative fluxes between the Earth’s surface, its atmosphere, and free space on the basis of their average thermal structure and estimated values for the emissivity and absorptivity of those individual entities. The radiative fluxes obtained reflect nighttime conditions but also indicate the components of those fluxes that must be subtracted from the input solar flux for daytime conditions. The estimates show that infrared radiant energy is lost to free space from both the Earth’s surface and its atmosphere.

Under the normal atmospheric temperature structure there is no net radiation from the atmosphere that reaches the Earth’s surface to be absorbed by it, and thus the socalled “greenhouse effect”, as it is traditionally depicted, is devoid of physical reality. The only exception occurs during atmospheric inversion conditions, but even in the presence of such rare inversions, the radiant power lost to free space from the atmosphere as a whole overwhelms the radiant power absorbed by the Earth’s surface from the warmer inversion layer above it. Inversion conditions are thus the only ones in which the so-called “greenhouse effect” can possibly have any form of physical reality. But such inversion conditions, however, are present over only a small fraction of the Earth’s surface for limited periods of time. In addition, since the recent increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations have a trivial effect on the atmosphere’s total emissivity, the effect of those recent CO2 increases on the overall infrared radiative flux balance is insignificant.

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Who We Are: Doubting Marty: A dissenting voice on climate change by Janice Kurbjun

Friday, May 4th 2012, 7:50 AM EDT

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Dr. Martin Hertzberg of Copper Mountain participated in authoring a book on global warming titled ‘Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory.' Summit Daily / Mark Fox

Copper resident says climate change advocates shadow real concerns

Martin Hertzberg says global warming is a farce.

Even if advocates of the phenomenon are right about their claim the Earth is warming, it's not because of humans, he says.

“If there is any global warming, it's natural. But I would go further. The theory that human emission of carbon dioxide having an effect … that theory, in my humble opinion as a scientist, is one of the greatest frauds in the history of science,” Hertzberg said.

The bottom line is that carbon dioxide has a minimal impact on climatology, he says. And he should know, because he was a meteorologist in the Navy, and has since taught the subject as well as turned it into his retirement hobby for the past 15 years.

Since the start of the global warming fad, as he might call it, in the mid-1990s, and since he moved to Copper Mountain as a full-time resident in 1996, he's delved into the subject. He's published several papers and coauthored a book titled “Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory.” He rarely lets any mention of climate change in the pages of the Summit Daily go unchallenged, and opinion page readers are accustomed to seeing him voice his doubts on a regular basis.

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MARTIN HERTZBERG REPLY TO LETTER OPEN LETTER/FAX

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Reply to letter: Martin Hertzberg: Letter to Wall Street Journal

Monday, February 6th 2012, 8:05 AM EST

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The recent exchange of letters entitled "No Need to Panic About Global Warming" and "Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate" are, either implicitly or explicitly, appeals to politicians based mainly on arguments from "Authority". It is tragic that what should have been an objective evaluation of the available data by independent scientists, has instead degenerated into a partisan political diatribe.

Weather and Climate are controlled by natural laws on a scale that is enormous compared to the scale of human activity. Those natural laws engender forces and motions in the Earth's atmosphere, its oceans, and its surface that are beyond human control. Weather and Climate existed long before humans appeared on Earth, and they will continue to exist in the same way long after we are gone, either individually or collectively as the human race.

Those forces and motions are driven by the following phenomenon. First, there is the motion of the Earth relative to the Sun: the periodic changes in its elliptical orbit, the rotation of the Earth about its axis, the periodic changes in the tilt of that axis, and the periodic precession of that axis. Second, there is the variation in Solar activity which causes changes in the amount of radiant energy that reaches the Earth and also causes variations in the Cosmic Ray input into its atmosphere, which effect the Earth's cloudiness. Third, there is the distribution of land and water on the Earth's surface which controls the temperature distribution of the atmosphere, the availability of moisture, monsoon effects, and the paths and intensities of hurricanes, typhoons, and other storms. Fourth, there is the topography of the Earth's land mass which causes copious precipitation on the windward side of mountains and aridity on the leeward side. Fifth, there are the motions within the Earth's oceans that determine moisture availability and its surface temperature distribution (El Nino and La Nina cycles).

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Reply to article: Martin Hertzberg: A Skeptic’s Reply to Naomi Klein's "Capitalism vs. the Climate"

Sunday, November 20th 2011, 7:25 AM EST

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Attached for your interest is my letter to the editor of the Nation Magazine in response to Naomi Klein's latest article there. There is little or no chance that it will be published by the Nation. A very detailed critique of the Klein article can be found in Joanne Nova's web site.

A Skeptic’s Reply to Naomi Klein's "Capitalism vs. the Climate"

What Naomi Klein fails to understand in her "Capitalism vs. the Climate" article is that weather and climate are controlled by the laws of Physics and Chemistry on a macroscopic scale. They engender forces and motions that are beyond human control, and the scrawny human constructs of Capitalism, or Communism, or Fascism, or Socialism have absolutely no role in weather or climate.

Weather and Climate existed long before humans appeared on Earth and they will exist in the same way long after we disappear either individually or collectively as the human race. What should have been an objective evaluation of climatological data, and a respectful scientific dialogue on whether or not CO2 and other "greenhouse gases" are causing global warming or climate change, has unfortunately degenerated into a partisan political harangue.

While right wing reactionaries like Limbaugh and the Koch brother's "think tanks" are partly responsible for that degeneration, some of the blame is shared by the Gore-Hansen-IPCC clique of fear mongers, environmental lobbyists, and progressive Democrats. Klein's article is only the latest example of that degeneration.

MARTIN HERTZBERG REPLY TO ARTICLE UPDATED

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Reply to article: Martin Hertzberg: Response to Michael Mann: Updated

Wednesday, October 5th 2011, 5:16 PM EDT

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Reply to article: Vail Valley Voices: Global warming denier's claims are falsehoods by Michael E. Mann

When Scott Glasser's comment of 9/26/11 referred to me indirectly as an “inaccurate” and “irresponsible” “fool” for challenging the theory that human carbon dioxide emission was causing “global warming / climate change”, I felt compelled to respond. My 9/30/11 comment cited the facts and the data that supported my challenge to the theory. In that article, Glasser defended what has been come to be known as the Mann “hockey stick” curve. I responded in my article with the well documented criticism of it from a large number of scientists who carefully reviewed his claims. Also, the so-called “climategate” e-mails revealed an appalling lack of scientific integrity and manipulations by a cabal of advocates of that theory. Mann responded on 10/1/11 accusing me of “false and defamatory statements” packed with “lies and distortions”; of “lying to the public about science”; of a “string of lies tied together”. He stated my “lies are pernicious” and that I am a “charleton”.

In his response, Mann uses an ad-hominem overkill accusing me of lies and lying some six times! Methinks he doth protest too much.

When I am engaged in a scientific dispute with an adversary, and that opponent instead of citing the facts or the data that might support his argument, instead directs an intense barrage of ad-hominem slurs toward me, I am fully confident that I am winning the argument.

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Reply to article: Martin Hertzberg: Vail Valley Voices: Researcher disputes evidence for global warming

Monday, October 3rd 2011, 5:23 PM EDT

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Reply to article: Vail Valley Voices: Fools deny global warming by Scott Glasser

“Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth” — Robert Weston.

Since I am a long-time denier of human-caused global warming and have been described as an “inaccurate” and “irresponsible” “fool” by Scott Glasser's commentary in Monday's Vail Daily, I feel compelled to respond.

I am a research scientist who also served as a meteorologist for the U.S. Navy. I am also a lifelong progressive Democrat.

For the 25 years that I have been studying the theory that human emission of carbon dioxide is causing global warming and climate change, it has never ceased to amaze me how many otherwise intelligent people, including our president, have been taken in by that scam.

There is a simple way to tell the difference between scientists and propagandists. If scientists have a theory, they search diligently for data that might actually contradict their theory so that they test it rigorously or refine it. If propagandists have a theory, they carefully select only the data that might agree with their theory and dutifully ignore any data that might contradict it.

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MARTIN HERTZBERG YOUTUBE REPLY TO ARTICLE ALAN SIDDONS UPDATED HEADLINE STORY

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Reply to article: Dr. Martin Hertzberg’s Video Lecture Exposes the Climate Fraud: Updated by Alan Siddons

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 11:19 AM EST

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Below we have much pleasure in presenting Dr. Hertzberg’s astonishing lecture before a large audience at the Café Scientifique at the Summit, Frisco, Colorado April 27, 2010. A well-respected analyst and commentator on climate change science, Hertzberg has a Ph D in Physical Chemistry from Stanford. He also worked as a U.S. Navy meteorologist in a illustrious scientific career and is the author of several U.S. patents.

"Climategate" and Scientific Inquiry, part 1 of 7 (parts 2-7 below)

Hertsgaard (Feb. 7, 2011) referred to Hertzberg as a"climate crank" and that he was no more credible than that of the "Flat Earth Society".

Hertzberg responded, “I am always encouraged when an adversary in an argument, rather than citing the facts or the data, resorts instead to ad-hominem slurs: it can only mean that I am winning the argument.”

Updated below with comments by Alan Siddons