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Volume 8, Issue 10 (Suppl)
J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617
Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
4
th
World Conference on
Applying the scientific method to climate science
Karl Zeller
and
Ned Nikolov
Independent Researcher, USA
S
ome climate skeptics argue that the assumption of radiant-heat trapping by a free convective atmosphere suggested by
Joseph Fourier, which is central to the radiative Greenhouse theory of climate, has not been demonstrated experimentally.
In fact, Prof. Svante Arrhenius in his 1896 paper after detailing what Fourier and others think, states “such experiments have
not been made as yet, and, as they would require very expensive apparatus beyond that at my disposal, I have not been
in a position to execute them”. Today, 131 years later, the proposed long-wave radiation trapping mechanism still awaits an
empirical validation. Yet the international science community has spent billions of dollars to develop and analyze climate
computer models that codify the 19th century theoretical conjecture of Fourier, Tyndall and Arrhenius about the atmosphere’s
ability to retain radiant heat. We report on the use of actual observations to address Arrhenius’ desired experiment. We apply
the scientific method by going through the following steps: ask a question: Is earth’s climate a special case?; state a hypothesis:
the earth’s climate is part of a physical continuum spanning a broad range of planetary environments in the solar system;
Procedure: apply dimensional analysis to measured planetary data in search of a physically meaningful relationship between
planetary temperatures and environmental parameters. Conduct the experiment: gather and vet terrestrial and extra-terrestrial
NASA data collected over the past 3 decades; determine dimensional parameters (Table 1) and create dimensionless products;
extract meaningful relationships from the dimensionless products; analyze the results to determine if they support the original
hypothesis. Draw logical conclusion and formula to a new theory based on them. The above scientific method produced
new findings and a therefore macro-level thermodynamic relationship with unexpected but fundamental implications for the
climate theory.
Biography
Karl Zeller has completed his PhD in Boundary Layer Fluid Mechanics from Colorado State University. Prior to 2008, he spent more than 40 years working in the
fields of Meteorology and Air Pollution for the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The DOI Bureau of
Land Management, the USDA Forest Service and for private consulting firms. He has also been an Air Force Reserve (part-time military) Weather Forecaster for
26 years. He is currently a Science Consultant conducting independent climate research. He is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist to the American Meteorological
Society.
kzeller@colostate.eduKarl Zeller et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-036