Americal Thinker

    The groupthink started in 1994 as a political movement to ban fossil fuels at our country’s first climate change bureaucracy, Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). A local professor wrote a rule for them that became known as “cap and trade.” It required our factories to reduce combustion of natural gas by an average 75 percent over five years. I owned a Weights and Measures gas-physics test-and-repair facility. The air quality district chose my company to test the factories’ gas-physics instruments for accuracy once per year. We witnessed the closing of over 1,200 factories because of that rule.

    We were skeptical of the rule’s assumptions, so we tested carbon dioxide. It cools twenty degrees in less than four minutes. It cannot possibly retain heat from day to day (global warming). It does not cause any warming.

    In 2014, I took the test results with a plumbing diagram for the test to a Heartland Institute conference. However, by that time, the groupthink had spread through all of academia, including the professors who claimed to be on our side. I offered to build the test bench for a respected professor, who said to me, “We believe that carbon dioxide causes warming; we just don’t know exactly how or how much.” I walked away thinking, “That is the most unscientific statement I have ever heard.”

    I gave up, not wanting to confront all of academia. They spin false theories, trying to prove a falsehood true.

    I marvel at the power of groupthink. It is powered in academia by peer review. There is no such thing as peer review in the private sector, where we were trained by factory engineers who manufacture gas-physics instruments. At the factories, something either works or it does not, and everything is tested, as science demands.

    The only curriculum for gas physics exists at these factories, where engineers must test, and must be correct, or their instruments will not work. Academia provides 100- to 400-year-old theories that were long ago proven useless by factory engineers. Apparently, academia is too arrogant to ask the private sector for help.

    In 2024, Dr. Michael Rectenwald learned of our tests, and I sent our 14-page science paper to him. He published our testing in his new book, The Great Reset. Lew Rockwell wrote the foreword, where he featured our testing. Rockwell then published our tests at the Mises Institute. Since then, our tests have been published three times in American Thinker (thank you), twice in the Washington Times, and three times at Climate Change Dispatch.

    A year ago, I mailed the test results to Lee Zelden along with my description of the economic damage to our factories.

    My holding company that owned the Weights and Measures test facility was a large distributor of gas physics instruments. Our territory was the entire Southwest. Every college and university was in our company database. Not once in thirteen years that I owned the company did a professor call to purchase any gas physics instrument. Had they built a laboratory, like ours or Thomas Edison’s, they would have called us for training or calibration. I believe they have offices where they write papers. Once they publish, they lock their conclusion.

    I say to academics, prove it, or stop encouraging destructive regulations. Test it like real scientists. It is a simple test. We used precision instruments, but this is a repeatable test that anyone can conduct with hardware store equipment.

    A condensed version of the author’s science paper, “Three Proofs Carbon Dioxide Causes No Warming in the Atmosphere — No Gas Causes Warming,” is in his book The Ladder Out of Poverty.