This presentation was given at the Clintel Climate Conference in Prague. It was designed to be as simple as possible to describe two competing climate theories, the Radiative Transfer Concept and the Heat Transfer Concept, and that they are both valid and work together.
The Introduction included a few slides to show the foundation for these concepts. The research was led by Douglas Lightfoot, with me as the co-author. We collected our data using a cell phone and the AccuWeather website, which contains over a million locations with a surface weather station. The typical weather station is called a Stevenson Screen, which is a white box with slats to let the air pass through. Advanced versions are connected to the Internet and are read once an hour. Our research design was to see if high-level climate research could be done with just a cell phone and a laptop computer. Just 20 locations around the world were chosen to cover as many different typical local climates as possible, including the polar, mid-latitude areas and the Tropics. The metadata for each location included the latitude, longitude, and elevation. Once a month all the local weather details, such as temperature and humidity were read and entered into an Excel spreadsheet. With just 20 locations and three or four numbers for each location – all 20 could be
recorded in an hour. This meant that they were essentially done at the same time – before the next hourly reading would change the data values. This was repeated every month for a year – so in total 240 different sets of readings made up the main database. From this data, a set of six papers were submitted for peer review.