Inseparability of science history and discovery

Herndon, J. Marvin

doi:10.5194/hgss-1-25-2010

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“…As described previously [2,16], a different and more fundamental approach to making scientific discoveries than the frequently discussed variants of the scientific method is this: An individual ponders and through tedious efforts arranges seemingly unrelated observations into a logical sequence in the mind so that causal relationships become evident and new understanding emerges, showing the path for new observations, for new experiments, for new theoretical considerations, and for new discoveries. That is the method applied here.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases: The Principal Cause of Global Warming

Herndon¹

2018

JGEESI

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Aim: Gottschalk demonstrated the bump coincident with World War II is a robust feature showing up in eight independent NOAA temperature databases. Without contradicting Gottschalk's conclusion, I consider the broader activities of WW2, especially the manner of altering Earth's delicate energy balance by particulate aerosols and then generalise to post-WW2 global warming. The aim is to present evidence that particulate pollution, not greenhouse gases, is the principal cause of global warming. Method: Arrange seemingly unrelated observations into a logical sequence in the mind so that causal relationships become evident. Results: The World War II wartime particulate-pollution, I submit, had the same global-warming consequence as the subsequent ever-increasing global aerosol particulate-pollution from (1) increases in aircraft and vehicular traffic, and the industrialization of China and India with their smokestacks spewing out smoke and coal fly ash and from (2) coal fly ash covertly jet-sprayed into the region where clouds form on a near-daily, near-global basis. Spraying coal fly ash into the atmosphere not only causes global warming by altering Earth's delicate thermal balance, but it is a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and neurodegenerative disease, as well as being involved in the global catastrophic bee and insect die-off and in forest die-Short Communication

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“…That belief stems from committee-consensus assessments of climate computer models that are based upon assumptions. The methodology employed should cause concern as much as contemporary non-climate, solid-Earth geophysics is based on computer-models underlain by flawed assumptions [2][3][4][5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases: The Principal Cause of Global Warming

Herndon¹

2018

JGEESI

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“…On the other hand, correcting past mistakes opens the way for new discoveries, connected logically and causally. In Table 1, I show four science mistakes that I personally corrected and the new discoveries that resulted [10]. When I realized that the inner core composition might be different from the idea of its being partially crystallized nickel-iron metal, my NASA funding ceased, and the subject became "politically incorrect", unmentionable; BIG MISTAKE!…”

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Make America Great Again in Science: A Guide for All Sovereign Nations

Herndon

2020

ASSRJ

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U. S. President Donald J. Trump is leading America and the world against the elitist-globalist goal of a One World Government. His efforts to free American entrepreneurs from unwarranted control by others are producing an economic renaissance. From a lifetime of first-hand knowledge and experience, I describe the problems that beset American science, and posit solutions for producing the cutting-edge science that Trump’s economic renaissance requires.

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“…The idea that our planet is experiencing global warming due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has been hammered into public consciousness for three decades. There are good reasons to believe that political motives are driving much of the scientific work of the climate science community and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1]. Real science, unlike politics, is all about telling the truth, truth that is securely anchored to the properties of matter and energy (radiation) [2,3].…”

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Geophysical Consequences of Tropospheric Particulate Heating: Further Evidence that Anthropogenic Global Warming is Principally Caused by Particulate Pollution

Herndon¹,

Whiteside

2019

JGEESI

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The climate science community and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have misinformed world governments by failing to acknowledge tropospheric particulate geoengineering that has been ongoing with ever-increasing duration and intensity for decades, and by treating global warming solely as a radiation-balance issue, which has resulted in a seriously incomplete understanding of the fundamental factors that affect Earth’s surface temperature. Here we review the consequences of tropospheric particulate heating by absorption of short- and long-wave solar radiation and long-wave radiation from Earth’s surface. Generally, black carbon absorbs light over the entire solar spectrum; brown carbon absorbs near-UV wavelengths and, to a lesser extent, visible light; iron oxides are good absorbers, the most efficient being magnetite. Pyrogenic coal fly ash, both from coal burning and from tropospheric jet-spraying geoengineering (for military purposes and/or climate engineering), contains carbon and iron oxides, hematite and magnetite. The recently published climate-science paradigm shift discloses that the main cause of global warming is not carbon dioxide heat retention, but particulate pollution that absorbs radiation, heats the troposphere, and reduces the efficiency of atmospheric-convective heat removal from Earth’s surface. In addition to the World War II data, three other independent lines of supporting evidence are reviewed: (1) Passage overhead of the Mt. St. Helens volcanic plume; (2) Radiosonde and aethalometer investigations of Talukdar et al.; and, (3) convection suppression over the tropical North Atlantic caused by the Saharan-blown dust. The risks associated with the placement of aerosol particulates into the stratosphere, whether lofted naturally, inadvertently, or deliberately as proposed for solar radiation management, poses grave risks, including the destruction of atmospheric ozone. To solve global warming humanity must: (1) Abruptly halt tropospheric particulate geoengineering; (2) Trap particulate emissions from coal-fired industrial furnaces (especially in India and China) and from vehicle exhaust; and, (3) Reduce particulate-forming fuel additives.

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Inseparability of science history and discovery

Cited by 6 publications

References 97 publications

Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases: The Principal Cause of Global Warming

Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases: The Principal Cause of Global Warming

Make America Great Again in Science: A Guide for All Sovereign Nations

Geophysical Consequences of Tropospheric Particulate Heating: Further Evidence that Anthropogenic Global Warming is Principally Caused by Particulate Pollution

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