CO2 Science. Pruitt, it's certain as certain gets! It's the physics.

In Pruitt's Red team Blue team confrontation, seems to me, after a review of climate science history, this would be a good direction to take the science presentation.

Considering ridicule is a mainstay of the Republican approach to denying climate science and since CO₂ understanding has come under the most unhinged attacks totally based on misrepresenting all that scientists have learned along with paranoia laced arguments from incredulity.  

I believe among the first points the Blue Team should make is that "Atmospheric CO₂ Science" is as certain as certain gets !

To accomplish that, explain where our greenhouse gas understanding comes from.  Namely intensive atmospheric studies made by no nonsense Air Force atmospheric scientists.  

Nature doesn't play tricks like people do, through careful study scientists have revealed one natural secret after another.  Why in the world would atmospheric radiative transfer physics be any different?  On top of all that, many nations studied greenhouse gases independently (we are talking about military secrets back then!) and all those experts came up with the same answers.

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(previously published February 21, 2016 at WUWTW)

In this exercise I've combed through the Air Force Cambridge Research Lab's official history, and pulled out what seem to me highlights of their atmospheric research.  It's all frustratingly vague, no hyperlinks here, still it is the official USAF record and offers some tantalizing hints to early Air Force Atmospheric Studies.  

Keep in mind this research took a century's worth of increasing fundamental understanding and evolved it into a thorough understanding of our atmosphere, its components and their physical properties and behavior within our atmosphere's real environment.  

Archive, Hanscom AFB Atmospheric Studies, Cambridge Research Lab

This project is inspired by the incredible number of malicious frauds who continue loudly broadcasting that CO2 is failed science and a big hoax.  They deliberately never slow down long enough to think through how utterly ludicrous their paranoid self-certain conviction is.

In this exercise I've combed through the Air Force Cambridge Research Lab's official history, and pulled out what seem to me highlights of their atmospheric research.  It's all frustratingly vague, no hyperlinks here, still it is the official USAF record and offers some tantalizing hints to early Air Force Atmospheric Studies.  

Keep in mind this research took a century's worth of increasing fundamental understanding and evolved it into a thorough understanding of our atmosphere, its components and their physical properties and behavior within our atmosphere's real environment.  

I can be certain of this, even if I'm not an expert, because of all the functioning modern marvels that would have been impossible without that understanding being correct!  Not to mention the insanity of thinking such fundamental nature can be hoaxed away, when thousands are studying it.

I share the following quotes in the hope some may find it a useful tool for digging up more information about early atmospheric studies (Incidentally, such atmospheric research wasn't confined to the USA, Australia, USSR and others, were also solving these fundamental 'mysteries' in order to get on with achieving mastery over weaponry, which they certainly achieved.  

Interestingly, the geophysical understanding developed independently by each nation, totally agreed with each other.  Funny that.)

Chronology From the Cambridge Field Station to the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory 1945 - 1985

Air Force Geohysics Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base

Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a164501.pdf

{8} Atmospheric Insulation Explained - appreciating our climate engine

In this installment of "Appreciating our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine" I focus on videos about our atmosphere's life sustaining insulating abilities and the molecules that make it possible.  This won't be as pretty as my previous installment, which had those gorgeous NASA data driven animations to look at and ponder.

This is a bit more along the lines of classroom work, particularly my first video featuring the high school teacher Mr. Kemp who does a nice job of describing the various layers of our atmosphere using a cool space station photo of our planet's horizon.  Then a 9 min video by Professor Richard Alley explaining how we know CO2 is responsible for current global warming.  Followed by an 8 min video by PICSClimateInsights reviewing aspects of greenhouse molecules. 

Then comes Ricardo Esplugas's visualization of greenhouse molecules in action, followed by Iain Stewart's demonstrating CO2's infrared capturing abilities and finishing up with Dan Miller demonstrating what 280 ppm looks like.

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Layers of the Atmosphere 

Mr. Kemp - MSHS Science  |  Published on Dec 17, 2012  |  13:26 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDqJUjh38Q

0:00 -  Describing the various layers of the atmosphere using a profile picture taken from the Space Station of Earth's atmosphere.

2:00  -  diagram

2:15  -  Stratosphere, Ozone layer, ultra-violet radiation absorption

3:50  -  Troposphere, surface warming

4:50  -  Temperature profile through the atmosphere

5:20  -  Troposphere, mixing layer, air circulation, convection

7:00  -  Stratosphere, temperature gradient, 

7:45  -  ozone absorbing ultraviolet light leading to temperature inversion

8:30  -  Mesosphere, "shooting stars" burn up here

8:45  -  Thermosphere, air very thin, feels cold, but individual atoms extremely hot (high kinetic energy).

10:35  -  Ionosphere, overlaps Mesosphere and Thermosphere, where auroras happen

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Check out this power point.  

It could be the best summation for someone at my level I've seen:

Greenhouse Gas and Climate Science Measurements

The SIM Metrology School October 28 – November 1, 2013

James Whetstone

Special Assistant to the Director for Greenhouse Gas Measurements
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

http://www.nist.gov/iaao/upload/SIM_School_Climate_Final_James_Whetstone.pdf

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Who says it's settled physics?  

Our Air Force, that's who!
and
Australia's Air Force, that's who!

CO2 & the Atmosphere

Earth: The Operators' Manual  |  Published on Apr 9, 2012  |  9:03 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9eGzPxA1Dg

Air Force research on missiles and the story of Ice Ages both reveal the effects of carbon dioxide.