On the question of CO2 induced heating, digest this paper. Read the very fair and balanced conclusion. I’m not asking you to regurgitate somebody else's thoughts, I’m asking only this: what are your thoughts?
The Influence of IR Absorption and Backscatter Radiation from CO2 on Air Temperature during Heating in a Simulated Earth/Atmosphere Experiment
Conclusion
The results of our study show the near-identical heating curves when we change from air to 100% CO2 or to Argon gas with low CO2 concentration. Nevertheless, we observed absorption of IR radiation in the front chamber. We also observed the increased radiation density in the rear chamber due to the backscatter from CO2. The change in observed backscatter radiation should give us a measurable temperature increase of 2.4 to 4 K by using the Stefan Boltzmann law. But we only observe a very slight temperature increase due to CO2 backscatter. This indicates that heating, due to IR backscatter from CO2, is much less than what is assumed from the Stefan Boltzmann law or from the forcing Equation (1a) and Equation (1b). The near-identical heating curves for all the three gases indicate that the thermal energy transfer is only driven by the temperature of the back wall of the rear chamber. Without extra heating of the walls in the rear chamber, the air temperature cannot increase. These findings might question the fundament of the forcing laws used by the IPCC. Another possibility is that our setup has unexplained heat losses that cancel the effect of the increased backscatter IR and prevent higher temperatures in the rear chamber, but after testing this and finding only slight losses, we do not see that this could be the case.
On climate variability vs timescale: research “meltwater pulse 1B” at the end of the Younger Dryas period and point me to the agreed causal agent.
On the topic of Malcolm Bendall, it’s dismaying to have to point out to anyone that the wikipedia level or equivalent sourcing of information is at best, artful bullshit. It’s doubly dismaying to have to point this out to RI’ers. With any degree of digging, you’ll probably agree, his device is at least one of two things, 1) it uses geometry, ionised water, temperature and pressure to induce plasma to transmute elements, or 2) it is the “cheapest and most effective catalytic converter ever invented.” Either works perfectly well for me.
As you’ve probably quoted yourself, at some point: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
