Yong Zhong: Basic Issues in the IPCC CO2 Narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #93

About Yong Zhong: 1) Originally trained as a physics teacher. 2) Taught thermodynamics for undergraduates at age of 21. 3) Got in 1991 from Monash University. 4) Made several original contributions to electron and nuclear spin resonance spectroscopy*. 5) Invited to write a chapter in a handbook for researchers in the field. 6) Irritated by the ABC’s interviews on climate change. 7) Started presenting talks on climate physics on Yong Tuition at Youtube in 2019. *Resonant absorption and emission of microwave by electron and nuclear spins in the presence of magnetic field. Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/basic-issues-in-the-ipcc-co2-narrative Yong Zhong’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@yongtuition Y.C. Zhong A quantitative description of atmospheric absorption and radiation at equilibrium surface temperature, Progress in Physics, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 2 (October), 151-157. https://www.ptep-online.com/complete/PiP-2021-02.pdf 00:00 Introduction 00:49 Irritation at Cox/Roberts "debate" 03:23 Presentation starts 07:15 Truly empirical formulas 14:09 Whole story about the sensitivity is just a joke 18:50 Calculating moon temperature? 21:17 Spectroscopy 26:49 Calculated noise 33:31 CO2 is missing 39:53 Proportion of CO2 absorption 46:15 Measured CO2 emission 57:17 The "calculation" of forcing 01:14:49 Key point of his research 01:25:39 Concluding remarks —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html