The Dunn Raman Spectroscopy Climate Debate Fallacy
I have claimed that we should be using the measurements Raman spectrometer and Lidars to update and augment greenhouse theory as they measure the emission spectral lines the classical IR spectrometer does not*. *The Raman spectrometer can measure some of the modes the IR instruments measure; for instance all of H2O's modes and the mode of N2O. A persistent fallacy has developed from a group of thinkers as part of a rebuttal to my work, mostly from physicist Michael Dunn, whom I have communicated with extensively on this issue and whom I give name credit to on his claim. Dunn and others respond to my work: Blair, there is no Raman effect in the atmosphere that contributes to the greenhouse effect. This is something I have never claimed and never thought of claiming because it is just not true. It is Dunn and others that have brought this claim into existence in some kind of red herring, maybe a special pleading fallacy. Dunn and others are maintaining, saving the status quo, th