Thermodynamics Controversy

Manmade Climate Change Models are based upon Blackbody Theory - a very important part of Thermodynamics.

Thermodynamics is the field of physics which is relevant to studies of temperatures and heat transter.

The allegation is that the fundamental Manmade Climate Change Model was created by people who did not have any understanding of Blackbody Theory or Thermodynamics at all!

How could this happen? How could they create a Model based upon Thermodynamics, without understanding Thermodynamics one bit? The answer is simple - they did copy and paste, with no understanding at all of what it was they were copying and pasting. When caught, instead of admitting they were mistaken, they engaged in an amazingly egregious amount of bullying, cover-ups and fraud.

Here is a partial email chain that was sent to some selected Thermodynamics textbook authors and professors teaching Thermodynamics.

In these emails, these authors and teachers are being schooled by me in actual Thermodynamics, and being told in no uncertain terms that they clearly did not understand what they have been writing textbooks about and teaching. The correct honorable response from these people is to be outraged at NASA, but so far I have not seen any evidence of this righteous outrage.

From: Mukesh Prasad To: CC: Subject: Re: Request for comment on Thermodynamics Timestamp: Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 at 10:38 AM US Mountain Time From your collective silence as Thermodynamics book authors and teachers, I assume the message has hit home, and at this time Thermodynamics is indeed being taught without the fundamental introductory material, turning it into a passing down of rote-memorized formula and their application without understanding. You should be outraged that this was done, leaving you all in this position. How did this happen? Here is the story I have reconstructed: James Hansen found some code to compute the temperature of stars. This code assumed stars could be treated as blackbodies. He applied this code to Venus, and found Venus was much hotter. This is natural, Venus is not a blackbody and would be hotter than calculations that assume it is a blackbody. But Hansen had no clue what was a blackbody, he was copy/pasting the code. He searched for reasons why Venus was much hotter. He arrived at a discarded theory, Greenhouse Gases. The theory had been discarded by physicists, but it made for good fiction, and was popular. In particular, the popular campus movie Soylent Green references it. He massaged the numbers until CO2 could explain the discrepancy. He did not know about absorption spectrum either, and could put in whatever assumptions explained the "discrepancy." Then he applied the theory to Earth, convinced congress and got billions in funding, and was able to corrupt entire academia. Somewhere along the way, internally within NASA, he was challenged on the "1.0" emissivity assumption. That's the source of "Earth is a Blackbody" propaganda. Eventually, he relented and allowed that maybe 1.0 was not correct, so he changed it to 0.99 and viciously defended that. My suspicion is that along the way he was successful in removing all introductory material from Thermodynamics textbooks and internet, thus turning Thermodynamics into an intimidation-driven rote-memory based teaching endeavor. I also suspect NASA was instrumental in changing the Angstrom unit, because the scientist whose work led to the discarding of Greenhouse Gas Theory, was named Angstrom. I find all this outrageous, and I hope you are similarly outraged. Regards, Mukesh Prasad 55-NDA India, Yale MS 1981, MPhil 1988
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Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 at 8:50 AM, US Mountain Time, Mukesh Prasad wrote: Subject: Request for comment on Thermodynamics This touches upon a fundamental issue in Thermodynamics. I was very surprised to learn that NASA managerial staff have been spreading propaganda such as "Earth is a Blackbody" and have gone unchallenged on this. I am no TD expert, but I did learn it decades ago, and this was fundamentally contradicted by the introductory material I know. As textbook author and TD professors at top institutions, I would appreciate any comments/feedback from you on this URL: https://limotsnewsletter.com/2024/10/02/interacting-with-google-gemini/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Regards, Mukesh Prasad 55-NDA India, Yale MS 1981, MPhil 1988