Al Gore Invented Internet And Bouncing IR PDF Print E-mail
Written by Karl J. Hansen, klimabedrag.dk   
Monday, 28 June 2010 10:30
Yes, this phrase has gone around for a while now.  Just in case anybody believe this in the same way they believe in Al's knowledge of thermodynamics (in connection with his climate scare), I will clarify this for you:

WWW_logo_150The great contribution Al Gore provided to the Internet community, was that he, together with Bill Clinton, acquired an email address at the new White House domain in 1993.  Bill Clinton's address was This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and Al Gore's address was This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and at the same time the United Nations came on-line too.

Year 1993 is also the year after the Internet past 1,000,000 hosts. The WWW became focus for the business and Gopher expanded 10 fold every year.

But Al Gore's "invention of the Internet" started when he was a child in the 60's and emerged in the present form around 1990 as TCP/IP under NSFNET.  It is difficult to talk about a single inventor of the Internet, but if Al Gore implies the World Wide Web (WWW), then CERN comes into focus, more specifically Tim Berners-Lee who was a developer at cern.ch in 1992.

co2molekyleThe other issue with regards to Al Gore's "Invention" is his naive idea that infra-red radiation from the Earth's surface to the cold space is bouncing back when stumbling over a few CO2 molecules way up in the atmosphere (although the CO2 is everywhere around us).

I don't think Al Gore believes the story himself, but he might have a deep desire to believe it anyway.  Or maybe he really didn't listen in the physics class in high school, because there the teacher would have explained to him that heat always travels from warmer to colder, never the other way.

This means that the few CO2 molecules high up in the atmosphere can only slow the rate of heat flow of IR from surface to space.  The change of flow due to the few CO2 molecules is so marginal that the effect has not been established with either weather balloons nor satellites to this date.
 

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