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    Climate Change: Is It Really Caused by Carbon Dioxide?
    Climate Change: Is It Really Caused by Carbon Dioxide?
    Climate Change: Is It Really Caused by Carbon Dioxide?
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    Climate Change: Is It Really Caused by Carbon Dioxide?

    By Dr. Sam O. Otukol

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    Polar ice caps are melting. Glaciers are disappearing. Average temperatures across the globe are increasing. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lays the blame for global warming squarely at the feet of human activity, generating what is now known as greenhouse gases, the most important gas identified as carbon dioxide. Author Dr. Sam

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    PublisherGoldTouch Press, LLC
    Release dateApr 26, 2021
    ISBN9781955347235
    Climate Change: Is It Really Caused by Carbon Dioxide?
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    Dr. Sam O. Otukol

    Dr. Sam O. Otukol was born in Butebo, Uganda, and studied there until completing a bachelor's degree in forestry. He earned a master's degree in forest biometrics at the University of New Brunswick and a PhD from the University of Toronto. Otukol worked twenty-two years for the BC Public Service designing methods for collecting natural resource data, writing data analysis procedures, and advising decision makers on interpreting the statistics. He is married and has five children.

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      Climate Change - Dr. Sam O. Otukol

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      Climate Change

      Is It Really Caused by Carbon Dioxide?

      Dr. Sam O. Otukol

      Copyright © 2021 by Dr. Sam O. Otukol.

      Library of Congress Control Number:      2021908439

      HARDBACK:     978-1-955347-22-8

      Paperback:    978-1-955347-21-1

      eBook:           978-1-955347-23-5

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Ordering Information:

      For orders and inquiries, please contact:

      1-888-404-1388

      www.goldtouchpress.com

      [email protected]

      Printed in the United States of America

      This book is dedicated to my mom Majori Okirya and dad Erenesti Okirya. For the two of them, their life-long commitment was to education of their children. My dad begged and borrowed from friends and sympathizers to make sure we had good education. They were both far sighted and ensure that both the sons and daughters had fair and equal access to education.

      My mom worked ten long hours each day without rest. Many of those hours were under a hot sun, to ensure we had enough food to eat. And indeed we never lacked anything. Most of my siblings went to school and completed successfully, but a few struggled. Overall our parents were satisfied with the results of their efforts. That I was able to focus and finish this book, is mainly due to their inspiration. They gave me the spirit to never give up and to stand firmly for what I believed in.

      Unfortunately, both passed on before they enjoyed the benefit of their hard work. May they both Rest In Peace. AMEN.

      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      What Is This Book About?

      Evidence Of Global Warming

      Africa

      North America, Iceland, and Greenland

      South America

      Europe

      Russia

      Asia

      Middle East

      Australia

      Greenhouse Gases

      The Role of Carbon Dioxide

      Clouds

      Types of Clouds

      Other Greenhouse Gases

      Potential And Latent Energy

      The Three Amigos

      Hydrogen

      Oxygen

      Carbon Dioxide

      Other Gases

      Nitrogen

      Water Vapor

      The Pimp and the Two Suitors

      The Weaknesses Of The Greenhouse Gas Theory

      Misleading Statistics

      An Alternative Theory On Global Warming

      The Impact Of Modern Society On Water Vapor Levels

      Combustion

      Cooking and Boiling

      Generation of Nuclear Energy

      Irrigation

      How Heat Is Balanced In The Atmosphere

      Weather and Climate

      How Does Weather Work?

      How Does Climate Happen?

      The 1,000-Kilometer Beam from the Sun

      The Chicken-on-a-Bad-Rotisserie Effect

      Why Deserts Start on the Western Sides of the Continent

      What If the Twenty-Three-Degree Tilt Did Not Exist?

      Summing Up The Effects

      The Key Factors in Global Warming

      Global Warming Mitigation Strategies

      Monitoring Temperature

      Generating Less Water Vapor

      Adaptive Technologies and New Strategies

      Is Global Warming Really Caused By Carbon Dioxide?

      References

      Preface

      My inspiration to write this book comes from my advanced studies in geography, chemistry, and biology, personal experiences with drought, and the twenty-two years I spent working for BC Public Service. I was born in Butebo in Uganda and completed a bachelor’s of science degree in forestry. I moved to Canada in 1975 to complete a master’s in science in forest biometrics at the University of New Brunswick. From there, I moved to the University of Toronto to complete a PhD. My work has involved designing statistically robust methods for collecting natural resource data, writing data analysis procedures, and advising decision makers on how to interpret the statistics from the collected data. I learned that decision makers quite often make critical decisions based on what information is available, even when it might have known defects, and that the key skill is in managing risk and uncertainty of using the data. Such is the case with climate change data. There is much more to climate change than increasing carbon dioxide. This book explores what else is behind it.

      List of Figures

      Figure 1. Map of Africa (source: www.pixaby.com)

      Figure 2. Bush elephants in Botswana

      Figure 3. Lake Victoria

      Figure 4. Sand left behind by retreating Lake Chad

      Figure 5. The snowcap on Mount Kenya

      Figure 6. Mount Kilimanjaro

      Figure 7. Continent of North America, Iceland, and Greenland

      Figure 8. The Colorado River

      Figure 9. The Great Salt Lake in Utah

      Figure 10. Lake Mead

      Figure 11. Retreating glaciers

      Figure 12. Map of South America

      Figure 13. Atacama Desert in South America

      Figure 14. Aral Sea in Russia

      Figure 15. The Dead Sea

      Figure 16. Map of Australia

      Figure 17. Deserts in Australia

      Figure 18. Clouds near Pender Island, BC

      (Photo by Dr. Sam Otukol)

      Figure 19. Fog on top of Mount Douglas

      (Photo by Dr. Sam Otukol)

      Figure 20. History of fuel consumption in the United States

      Figure 21. Means of transportation

      (Photo by Dr. Sam Otukol)

      Figure 22. Nuclear energy generation

      Figure 23. Crop irrigation

      Figure 24. Sun’s movements from the

      Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn

      Figure 25. Relative location of earth in relation to the sun

      List of Tables

      Table 1. Products that power animal and plant life

      Table 2. Alcohols

      Table 3. Hydrocarbon gases

      Table 4. Fossil fuels

      Table 5. Household fuels

      Introduction

      At the beginning of this third millennium, AD, the world is in crisis. As the leading authority on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that there is clear indication that human activities are causing real changes in global weather. They state their conclusions bluntly: Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observation of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.

      The IPCC lays the blame for global warming squarely at the feet of human activity (i.e., industrial production), generating what is now known as greenhouse gases (Climate Change: The Physical Science Basis, IPCC, 2007). The most important gas has been identified as carbon dioxide; its levels have been observed to be increasing rapidly over the past one hundred years. The other gases include methane and nitrous oxide. The position of the IPCC and other proponents of the greenhouse effect theory will be discussed in more detail in the section on current theories.

      In spite of the IPCC’s reports, testimonies from many scientists, and the regular newspaper reports of changes occurring around the globe, some detractors are convinced that the claims regarding climate change are not real. In most cases, the nonbelievers fall into two categories. On the one hand, die-hard politicians want to defend our current way of life via an ideology that asserts that our activities, particularly commercial activities, should not be interfered with in any way. On the other hand, another group believes that all these changes in weather are temporary, caused by minor changes in the sun’s radiation, and

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