Has anyone considered, that gobal warming is caused by radio waves?

Question

I asked this question last night. but all though I agree with has been written, I dont actual mean physical heating!

As within a microwave oven, microwave radiation causes molicules to vibrate and heat up. Gobal warming has seamingly increased in the last 30 years, around the same time we have been sending more satilates into space for mobile communications, radio dishes and mobile phone masts, and Wi fi. Pigeons flying in the path of radio dishes can be instantly cooked, so with all these's signals and radio waves, there must have an effect, in heating up the atmosphere.

I mean that If radio waves can cause molicules to vibrate and heat up.

Mobile phone masts have been opposed on health questions

A micro wave oven doesn't produce that much heat to cook. With so much radio wave and other radiation criss crossing the globe, then is'nt there a chance then, we are microwaving ourselves

Answer 1

What you said is correct; in fact, it's one argument against 'beaming' energy down from satellites with solar arrays - they'd have to return the energy in microwaves, thereby heating the air around the ground base.

Honestly, though - while the number of radio transmissions has obviously increased, it's effect is miniscule when you consider the tons of carbon & other pollutants we (I mean Man) is currently dumping into the atmosphere. With China and India surpassing the US's consumption of energy, there is little doubt that this is what's causing at least part of global warming - an impact far more strong than radio waves.

Answer 2

As one poster mentioned about the power needed to cause heating is massive. The reason microwaves ovens work the way they do is that the waves inside the oven are bouncing around and hitting the food more often.

Most microwave transmitters only transmitt for a short time. A transmitter signal is usually a square wave with a definate rise and fall on the leading and trailing edges of the square wave. Also depending on the frequency, some microwaves will be absorbed by the atomsphere which will require higher levels to be received.

Answer 3

It is a conservation of energy problem. The amount of heat cannot be more than the amount of energy used to generate the radio waves. Satellite signals are especially low energy, because the satellites have only small solar panels for a power source. They send out only a few watts of RF power. Far FAR more RF energy comes from local AM and FM radio broadcasts, local TV stations and world wide short wave radio. Also, air defense radar is VERY high power (that is where the cooked bird stories come from). We are taking kilowatts and megawatts for each station. All that energy, if it were converted to heat, is so small compared to the amount needed to change the climate that it can be totally ignored.

Answer 4

I read recently that a scientist discovered that certain frequencies of radio waves aimed at ocean water in a laboratory caused the ocean water to boil, not in terms of heat.the boiling effect was the release of it's Hydrogen molecules into the air. in terms this gas could be a new clean endless fuel to power this world. good news right ! On the other hand, the sun produces radio waves that bombard our planet every day and most of it is ocean water. sooner or later it's bound to produce the right frequency that causes our oceans to release it's hydrogen into the atmosphere. Your probably thinking what I was thinking when I first read this article, Hydrogen is a burnable gas or even explosive at times so why doesn't the earth blow up or something. What I have considered is that it would take a constant frequency of the right radio wave to do this. the sun has no control on what radio waves or frequencies it produces they are completely random. Imagine if this could actually happen every million years or so, it could explain the extinction of the dinosaurs or could this be what is happening to Venus or has happened to Mar's other planets of similar size as the earth. or how about the bible as being cast into the lake of fire .if the suns radio waves can release hydrogen from ocean water I wonder what other molecules it is capable of releasing like CO2 .

Answer 5

how come before humans times, mammoths died because of over heating - this makes me think its just a whole cycle

we are currently thousands of years overdue an ice age

next youll find out in the news there will be global cooling

if global warming is that bad, cheer up! i dont think any serious damage will be happening with in the nest 100 years or so...

funny, lets go and seal ourselves in a room, and turn on 5 microwaves - nothing will happen to us! microwaves have sealed doors, unless your microwave hasnt got any doors

and our cooking microwaves radiation travel only 1 meter so..

Answer 6

Have you even considered doing a sanity check on your idea?

I didn't think so. Once you do you will go to the kitchen and get that brown paper bag to hide your face.

PS: I especially liked the instantly cooked pigeon myth. Yep... I see them lying on the ground next to the radio station all the time. Perfectly fried... ready to eat.

Answer 7

Yeh and the fact that the climate has been changing for centuries, animals have been becoming extinct for as long as time goes back yet people seem to think its a new phenomenon blamed entirely on us boiling the kettle with too much water in. When dinosaurs became extinct were fish boiling their kettles too frequently?

Answer 8

No I have never considered that I think whats adds to global warming is all the hot air that come out of the human mouth.

Answer 9

I guess you should start with the heat generated in the million jet engines and even this is not the cause but the CO2 discharged

Answer 10

We are all entitled to our opinions and I don`t agree or disagree with yours, but it`s an interesting theory.
There are schools of thought that say this happens every few thousand years. How do they know?
To me it`s an open book.