Climate Change: Is It Really Caused by Carbon Dioxide?
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Polar ice caps are melting. Glaciers are disappearing. Average temperatures across the globe are increasing. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lays the blame for global warming squarely at the feet of human activity, generating what is now known as greenhouse gases, the most important gas identified as carbon dioxide. Author Dr. Sam
Dr. Sam O. Otukol
Dr. Sam O. Otukol was born in Butebo, Uganda, and studied there until completing a bachelor's degree in forestry. He earned a master's degree in forest biometrics at the University of New Brunswick and a PhD from the University of Toronto. Otukol worked twenty-two years for the BC Public Service designing methods for collecting natural resource data, writing data analysis procedures, and advising decision makers on interpreting the statistics. He is married and has five children.
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Climate Change - Dr. Sam O. Otukol
Climate Change
Is It Really Caused by Carbon Dioxide?
Dr. Sam O. Otukol
Copyright © 2021 by Dr. Sam O. Otukol.
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This book is dedicated to my mom Majori Okirya and dad Erenesti Okirya. For the two of them, their life-long commitment was to education of their children. My dad begged and borrowed from friends and sympathizers to make sure we had good education. They were both far sighted and ensure that both the sons and daughters had fair and equal access to education.
My mom worked ten long hours each day without rest. Many of those hours were under a hot sun, to ensure we had enough food to eat. And indeed we never lacked anything. Most of my siblings went to school and completed successfully, but a few struggled. Overall our parents were satisfied with the results of their efforts. That I was able to focus and finish this book, is mainly due to their inspiration. They gave me the spirit to never give up and to stand firmly for what I believed in.
Unfortunately, both passed on before they enjoyed the benefit of their hard work. May they both Rest In Peace. AMEN.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
What Is This Book About?
Evidence Of Global Warming
Africa
North America, Iceland, and Greenland
South America
Europe
Russia
Asia
Middle East
Australia
Greenhouse Gases
The Role of Carbon Dioxide
Clouds
Types of Clouds
Other Greenhouse Gases
Potential And Latent Energy
The Three Amigos
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Carbon Dioxide
Other Gases
Nitrogen
Water Vapor
The Pimp and the Two Suitors
The Weaknesses Of The Greenhouse Gas Theory
Misleading Statistics
An Alternative Theory On Global Warming
The Impact Of Modern Society On Water Vapor Levels
Combustion
Cooking and Boiling
Generation of Nuclear Energy
Irrigation
How Heat Is Balanced In The Atmosphere
Weather and Climate
How Does Weather Work?
How Does Climate Happen?
The 1,000-Kilometer Beam from the Sun
The Chicken-on-a-Bad-Rotisserie Effect
Why Deserts Start on the Western Sides of the Continent
What If the Twenty-Three-Degree Tilt Did Not Exist?
Summing Up The Effects
The Key Factors in Global Warming
Global Warming Mitigation Strategies
Monitoring Temperature
Generating Less Water Vapor
Adaptive Technologies and New Strategies
Is Global Warming Really Caused By Carbon Dioxide?
References
Preface
My inspiration to write this book comes from my advanced studies in geography, chemistry, and biology, personal experiences with drought, and the twenty-two years I spent working for BC Public Service. I was born in Butebo in Uganda and completed a bachelor’s of science degree in forestry. I moved to Canada in 1975 to complete a master’s in science in forest biometrics at the University of New Brunswick. From there, I moved to the University of Toronto to complete a PhD. My work has involved designing statistically robust methods for collecting natural resource data, writing data analysis procedures, and advising decision makers on how to interpret the statistics from the collected data. I learned that decision makers quite often make critical decisions based on what information is available, even when it might have known defects, and that the key skill is in managing risk and uncertainty of using the data. Such is the case with climate change data. There is much more to climate change than increasing carbon dioxide. This book explores what else is behind it.
List of Figures
Figure 1. Map of Africa (source: www.pixaby.com)
Figure 2. Bush elephants in Botswana
Figure 3. Lake Victoria
Figure 4. Sand left behind by retreating Lake Chad
Figure 5. The snowcap on Mount Kenya
Figure 6. Mount Kilimanjaro
Figure 7. Continent of North America, Iceland, and Greenland
Figure 8. The Colorado River
Figure 9. The Great Salt Lake in Utah
Figure 10. Lake Mead
Figure 11. Retreating glaciers
Figure 12. Map of South America
Figure 13. Atacama Desert in South America
Figure 14. Aral Sea in Russia
Figure 15. The Dead Sea
Figure 16. Map of Australia
Figure 17. Deserts in Australia
Figure 18. Clouds near Pender Island, BC
(Photo by Dr. Sam Otukol)
Figure 19. Fog on top of Mount Douglas
(Photo by Dr. Sam Otukol)
Figure 20. History of fuel consumption in the United States
Figure 21. Means of transportation
(Photo by Dr. Sam Otukol)
Figure 22. Nuclear energy generation
Figure 23. Crop irrigation
Figure 24. Sun’s movements from the
Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn
Figure 25. Relative location of earth in relation to the sun
List of Tables
Table 1. Products that power animal and plant life
Table 2. Alcohols
Table 3. Hydrocarbon gases
Table 4. Fossil fuels
Table 5. Household fuels
Introduction
At the beginning of this third millennium, AD, the world is in crisis. As the leading authority on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that there is clear indication that human activities are causing real changes in global weather. They state their conclusions bluntly: Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observation of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.
The IPCC lays the blame for global warming squarely at the feet of human activity (i.e., industrial production), generating what is now known as greenhouse gases (Climate Change: The Physical Science Basis, IPCC, 2007). The most important gas has been identified as carbon dioxide; its levels have been observed to be increasing rapidly over the past one hundred years. The other gases include methane and nitrous oxide. The position of the IPCC and other proponents of the greenhouse effect theory will be discussed in more detail in the section on current theories.
In spite of the IPCC’s reports, testimonies from many scientists, and the regular newspaper reports of changes occurring around the globe, some detractors are convinced that the claims regarding climate change are not real. In most cases, the nonbelievers fall into two categories. On the one hand, die-hard politicians want to defend our current way of life via an ideology that asserts that our activities, particularly commercial activities, should not be interfered with in any way. On the other hand, another group believes that all these changes in weather are temporary, caused by minor changes in the sun’s radiation, and