The energy flow through the earth's atmosphere and the impact of infrared active trace gases like water vapor and CO2

1. What Controls the Climate Physically?
Introduction
Have you ever asked yourself what differentiates the term “climate” from “weather”? …
In your daily weather reports you learn not only about temperature, but also about air pressure,
wind and the actual probabilities of rain and its amount of water falling in the near future (days at
best) … in your (or others) regions …
Science came up with a new breed of meteorologists, which they named “climate researcher”. And
to avoid too complex narratives they came up with a definition of the new term “climate”:
The term “climate” stands for an average value of daily temperature values recorded over a period
of 30 years … ! … yes, you are right … 30 years. Then these “experts” are collecting all these
statistical values presenting them all in form of “moving time line(s)” …
That is what you can find in all the IPCC-reports (Intergovermental-Panel-of-Climate-Change).
This political entity campaigned successfully for large “research” fundings in order to predict these
time lines of statistical average temperature values in form of time lines generated by simulations.
But this kind of “research” applied by these “climate researcher” are simply ignoring air pressure,
wind and rain! … so the term “climate” talks ONLY about statistical temperature values.
But already all applied methods for temperature measurements are flawed by the following factors:
1) 71% of the surface of the earth is covered by oceans … not measured at all …
2) most of the weather measurement stations are located in the region of bigger cities …
3) the error of precision & calibration of measurement equipment is in the 1/10th. of Kelvin …
How can you calibrate millions of weather stations around the globe? … because these “experts”
are interpreting changes in absolute temperature values and combining these values with
temperature values from other regions … and for the time lines of moving averaged time-lines over
30 years these “experts” simply assume “stable calibrations” of all the measurement equipment …
But all this measured data is naturally related to the past. Thanks to all these new “climate
researchers” and their expensive tax funded computer simulations models for “climate” they claim
now that they can predict trends of these moving time-lines of average temperature values even for
the coming decades … without modelling correctly clouds which have a fundamental influence to
the weather. But all these “experts” are regularly failing to predict the weather even for a week …
One of the early authors of the IPCC-reports was Prof. Dr. John Christy, an ex-NASA atmosphere
researcher, who realized after just few years the political agenda of the IPCC. He had to notify the
IPCC that he would file for prosecution if his name did not get removed from the list of authors for
future IPCC-reports. Dr. Christy do present in the following speech how fundamentally wrong all
these computer simulation results are in their predictions by using all these “climate models” –
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttNg1F7T0Y0&t=702s
… at time (11:00 min) you’ll learn about the “precision” of these climate simulation models …
But these computer simulation models for “climate” and all their expensive simulation results
are the whole foundation for all action of all these political-climate-activists!

2. Energy Flow in the Atmosphere of the Earth
It is the weather, what makes long term the so called “climate”! If you want to understand “climate”
you need to understand the meaning of the term weather first!
In order to explain weather, and therefore longterm “climate” you need to know, at least to a certain
extent, two fundamental scientific theories of physics:
1) statistical thermal dynamics …
2) infrared-spectroscopy …
Everybody knows by his/her very own experience that the sun warms the earth during the day and it
gets colder at night. So the energy coming from the sun is a major factor in the explanation of the
daily weather!
It is the flow of energy through the atmosphere of the earth,
which show you the dynamics making up the daily weather.
You find energy in the atmosphere of the earth in two forms: “heat” and “radiation”.
Heat is physically all statistical movements of molecules (vibration, rotation & translation) of
each gas molecule in the atmosphere.
Radiation is occurs also in two forms: visible sunlight (short wavelengths < 1 micron) and
invisible infrared radiation (IR => longer wavelengths > 1 micron) continuously emitted by the
earth’s surface.
The dynamics of all air-molecules in the atmosphere is driven by the physical processes
conduction (collision excitation) and convection (air lift).
Gas-molecules like water vapor and CO2 are called infrared-active trace-gases because they have
a dipol moment. Infrared-active trace-gases can interact on the molecular level with radiation by
absorbing and emitting any photon of suitable (!) wavelengths (absorbtion lines).
Absorbtion takes place if the photon’s polarization plane is parallel to the vector of the dipol
moment of the infrared-active gas-molecule in the moment of convergence.
A dipol moment is the physical property of any molecule is the geometrical sum of all
electronegativity values of each atom being constituent of its molecule. Only that enables such
gas-molecules to interact (absoption & emission) with photons of suitable (!) wavelength
(absorption lines) on the molecular level.
Infrared-active trace-gases like water vapor (up to 4% H2O) and CO2 (only 0.04% CO2) are
emitting continously any access energy (either absorbed or received by conduction) in form of IR-
photons with wavelengths of its emission lines already after a very short delay of its molecule-
relaxation-time with values between 0.01 and 1 pico-seconds uniformly in all directions (isotropic).
The average value for this molecule relaxation time is just 0.1 pico-second (10 ¹² second
⁻ ).
Infrared-INactive gas-molecules in the atmosphere like nitrogen (78% N2) and oxygen (21% O2)
have no dipol moment (neither permanent nor induced) because of the complete molecular
symmetrie and cannot interact therefore with any radiation (photons)! Such gas-molecules can
only store energy in form of heat, which can be given or received by conduction (because of
continuous collisions between all gas-molecules).

3. The atmosphere has at surface level of the earth an atmospheric air pressure of around 1 at and an
average temperature of 59°F (15°C or 288K), so that each air-molecule fly with an average speed of
475m/s (295mph or Mach 1.4). The average free flight distance is around 90nm (nano-meter or
10 m) between
⁻⁹ consecutive collisions. The average flight-time for each air molecule under such
conditions is around 147ps (pico-seconds).
Such an average flight-time of 147ps between consecutive collisions between air-molecules is in
comparison to the average molecule-relaxation-time of just 0.1ps for infrared-active trace gases
(water vapor and CO2) so much longer so that the conclusion is that Absorption of sunlight or IR-
radiation, emitted by the earth’s surface, cannot be carried on toward other air-molecules by
conduction, because each infrared-active trace gas-molecule has already emitted isotropic any
access-energy (heat) in form of IR-photon(s) far before the next consecutive collision!
That is why radiation through the earth’s atmosphere cannot increase its temperature!
But infrared-active trace gases (up to 4% water-vapor & just 0.04% CO2) in the atmosphere
receive permanently access energy (heat) from the heat storing gases (78% nitrogen & 21%
oxygen & 1% Ar) through conduction, which gets nearly immediately (after averaged 0.1ps)
transformed into IR-radiation, which then gets scattered uniformly (isotropic) in all directions, so
that half of its radiation energy gets lost into space and the other half scatters back to the surface of
the earth.
The overall effect in the atmosphere of the earth therefore is a continuous withdrawal of energy
(heat), which gets transformed by the infrared-active trace gases (watervapor & CO2) into IR-
radiation (due to its dipol moment) and scattered uniformly (isotropic) half towards space and half
towards the earth’s surface.
So in total this process has a COOLING EFFECT to the atmosphere of the earth!
Daily rain from clouds in the troposphere causes an additional cooling effect to the surface of the
earth, compensating the back scattered IR-radiation (atmospheric back radiation).
Components of the earth’s gaseous atmosphere:
Gas: Percentage: Molecule: Mass: Symmetry: permanent
dipol moment:
Induced
dipol moment:
Nitrogen 78% N2 or N///N 28 Mol dynamic
symmetry
0 0
Oxygen 21% O2 or O//O 32 Mol dynamic
symmetry
0 0
Argon 1% Ar Inert Gas 0 0
Water Vapor 0..4% H2O or H/O/H 18 Mol Arc 104,45° 1.85 D ?
Carbonoxid just 0.04% CO2 or O//C//O 44 Mol linear 0 0.11 D
Methane 0.00018% CH4 16 Mol symmetry ? ?
Reference – Prof. Dr. Michel van Biezen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw3vQ6hguWg&list=PLX2gX-ftPVXVzU5jGY3FaYEuuu3ANvMZb
Notes:
1) air-molecules with more than 2 atoms are infrared-active, because of its dipol moment
2) Nitrogen, Oxigen & Argon are infrared-INactive because they do not have any dipol moment
3) Methane’s percentage is that low, that it can be ignored in this analysis
4) any water molecule has a permanent dipol moment of 1.85D which is 17 times stronger than the induced dipol
moment of carbonoxid (CO2) with just 0.11D …

4. The molecular interaction of water-vapor (H2O) with radiation in the atmosphere is so much
stronger compared to that of carbonoxid (CO2). This is caused by the following three reasons:
1) depending on air humidity there are 20..100 times more H2O molecules than CO2 molecules in the
atmosphere of the earth …
2) the permanent dipol moment of H2O with a value of 1.85D is around 17 times stronger than the smaller
induced dipol moment of CO2 with a value of just 0.11D …
3) the spectral absorption band of CO2 for its vibrational mode around 15 microns is quite small:
13..17 microns sees a strongly overlie by the spectral absorption band of H2O between 14..17 micron due to
the big difference in their respective dipol moment …
Balance Sheet of the Energy Flow
through the Earth’s Atmosphere
Radiation Direction: Effect: Percentage: Causal Context:
from Space to Earth
sunlight radiation
shorter wavelength
smaller than 1 micron
Sunlight
incoming
100% Solarkonstante = 1367 W/m²
UV (A+B)
absorption
23% Stratosphere: O2 => O3 (Ozone)
Albedo-Effect
Clouds
23% Troposphere: reflection of sunlight
Albedo-Effect
Oceans
6% Oceans: reflection of sunlight
from 71% of earth’s surface …
Disposition: 48%
from Earth to Space
IR-radiation
IR wavelengths
bigger than 1 micron
Water
vaporization
25% Vaporization of surface water
from all Oceans
convecting into the troposphere
causing cloud building
Conduction 5% from earth’s surface to lowest air layer
lost
IR-radiation 13%
loss through the atmospheric
infrared window (7..13 mirons)
directly into space … ! …
IR-Radiation 5% 4,5% scattered by water vapor
and just 0,5% scattered by CO2
0%
Reference – Prof. Dr. Michel van Biezen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKSJLJ9UnIQ&list=PLX2gX-ftPVXVzU5jGY3FaYEuuu3ANvMZb&index=5
This balance sheet for the flow of energy through the atmosphere of the earth enables us to compare
the energetic effect of water vapor (up to 4% H2O) with that of carbonoxid (just 0.04% CO2) for
the dynamics of air flow in the atmosphere of the earth.
Water at the surface of all oceans and in form of clouds in the troposphere reflect sunlight
straight back into space by an amount of energy of around 29% of solar constant. If you add to that
also the energy for vaporization of water from the surface of the oceans you get already a sum of
54% of solar constant. Which gets to an energetic equivalent in total of 58.5% solar constant if you
take into account also the 4.5% solar constant of scattering IR-radiation by water-vapor into space.

5. Carbonoxid (just 0.04% CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere scatters just an energetic equivalent of
just 1% of solar constant, which is less than just 2% of the energetic effect of water in the
atmosphere of the earth.
Therefore the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is
at least compared to water vapor completely negligible!
If the temperature of water-vapor falls below the dew point it does condense into clouds in the
troposphere. Clouds are collections of drops of liquid water and they therefore turn into Planck-
spectrum radiators. Water-vapor in comparison are just spectral-line-radiators as long as they do
not condense into clouds.
The infrared-active trace gases water vapor (up to 4% H2O) and carbonoxid (just 0.04% CO2) are
permanently withdrawing energy (heat) from the atmosphere (78% N2 & 21% O2 & 1% Ar),
transforming the access energy into radiation (IR-photons) and scatters them uniformly (isotropic)
half into space and half to the earth’s surface. Therefore does infrared-active trace gases withdraw
permanently energy from the atmosphere causing COOLING, but never “warming”.
Conclusions
Less than half (48%) of the sunlight energy (radiation < 1um) reaches the surface of the earth
were this radiation gets completely absorbed by it. But the surface of the earth is continuously
emitting the same amount of energy in form of infrared radiation (IR >1um).
Of these 48% (solar constant energy equivalent) IR-emission scatters already 1/4 directly into
space through the atmospheric infrared window, which is kind of a gigantic hole in the roof of the
atmospheric “greenhouse” as all these global-warming-priests are calling it!
In total around 5/8 of this total energy emission of the earth (48% solar constant equivalent) gets
scattered into space by clouds and the infrared-active trace gases in the atmosphere of the earth.
Around 3/8 of this total energy emission of the earth (48% solar constant equivalent) gets back
scattered by clouds (12,5% solar constant equivalent) and the infrared-active trace gases in the
atmosphere of the earth.
Around 2/3 of all direct infrared radiation emitted by the surface of the earth
(18% of solar constant equivalent)
gets directly (unscattered) into space and just the rest of 1/3 of it gets scattered
by the infrared-active trace gases (water-vapor & carbonoxid) in the atmosphere of the earth.
Finally everybody can see now why water in form of steam & clouds is the weather producing
constituent in the atmosphere of the earth … through vaporization (25%), convection &
condensation into clouds in the troposphere, where it reflects 23% (solar constant equivalent) back
to space (Albedo-Effect). The surface of all oceans add another 6% (solar constant equivalent) to
this Albedo-effect (totaling to 29% solar constant equivalent). and clouds are dropping the water
back to earth and into the oceans.
This whole analysis is the successful falsification of the myth “Global Warming”!

6. The real role of carbonoxid (just 0.04% CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere is that of plant food!
Any fight against this plant food CO2 is a fight again humanity, because plant is producing the
oxygen humans require in order to breath oxygen, which gets produced by palnt through a process
called photosynthesis! … again …
Fighting CO2 means fighting against mankind!
The medieval warm period was the peak time of building cathedrals like Notre Dame in
Paris/France. It was an even warmer period compared to nowadays of industrial times.
Mankind prospered as a whole!
It was even possible to do wine growing in the United Kingdom.
Also the myth about the ozone holes in the atmosphere of the earth is just that … a myth!
It is the UV (A+B) radiation in sunlight which transforms oxygen (O2) into ozone (O3). There is a
reason why there are only and exactly two ozone holes because the earth has just two poles! Or has
anybody found an ozone hole above the equator? …
At the poles of the earth the arc of incoming sunlight radiation is too small so that energy of the UV
radiation in sunlight is’nt strong enough anymore for a transformation of oxygen into ozone in the
stratosphere.
And if polar ice is melting in the Arctic, than the amount of polar ice in the Antarctic is increasing
accordingly! The reason for that context is the precession of the earth’s rotation axis!
Since the multilateral treaty “Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears” in 1973 between
Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway (Svalbard), the United States, and the Soviet Union the
number of polar bears recovered from back than of around 5,000 polar bears till today to more than
40,000 … ! …

7. Reflections on Counter Arguments
from the church-of-global-warming
1) Almost (at least 97%) all scientists agree on “Global Warming” … ?!? …
This plain false claim is derived from a study made & published by John Cook. Analysis of Cook’s
work has been severely hampered by his procrastination and ultimate refusal to release all of the
data associated with the study. Source:
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2014/09/Warming-consensus-and-it-critics1.pdf
2) Most of the authors for the IPCC-reports are with a majority just environmental activists
coming from Greenpeace and the WWF. That is a conlusion made by the canadian investigative
journalist Donna Laframboise in her book “The Delinquent Teenager Who was mistaken for the
World’s Top Climate Expert”. Just listen to her presentation – Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGPqV_Fwo4Q
3) Even the founder of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore, had left already many years before his
baby. Why he distanced himself from Greenpeace? Just listen to his presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G25FxnF6e1U&t=1105s
4) If you want to understand what really controls the weather and therefore long term also the
climate you should review the theory from danish climate researcher Prof. Dr. Hendrik Svensmark
called Cosmoclimatology. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANMTPF1blpQ&t=56s
Hamburg, September 2021
Dipl-Ing Hans J. Vetter
eMail: office@hjvetter.de