Global Warming Temperatures and Projections: As Related to CO2 and H2O Absorptions, H2O Evaporation, and Post-Condensation Convection

This book clarifies the roles of carbon dioxide and water vapor in global warming and climate change. In particular, it addresses the fear-cum-belief claims that further CO2 increases threaten to create runaway climate effects. The examination is devoid of politics and rhetoric and relies on a mathematical and scientific analysis of a slice-by-slice modeling of the atmosphere. The author earned an PhD from Princeton, is a Bell Laboratories retiree with multiple patents and scientific papers and is a Fellow in the IEEE Technical Society. The analysis provides verification that with no other background changes, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere would have to increase beyond 4,000 parts per million in order to have a surface temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius. With step-ups in the background, the concentration of CO2 would need to rise to 2,500 parts per million to have the same effect.