Abstract
History has it that an apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head allowing him to realise why, “what goes up must come down” and go on to formulate the basic laws of physics. Revisiting those laws in the infrared glow of the global-warming debate forces the realisation that when it comes to radiant heat, “what comes down must go up” — for if it didn’t, the Earth would overheat. Some 50 years after the end of the Little ice age, in a time we now call the preindustrial age, the world appeared to be well content with an atmosphere containing 285 ppmv of CO2 and the average amount of water vapour. Since 1992 we have had a special UN-supported Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warning the world that we are heading for real trouble, if the concentration of carbon dioxide, one of the five so called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere doubles its pre-industrial value. Here are ten, let us call them Newton’s Apples, that sow real seeds of doubt about the science behind the IPCC’s conclusions.
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