Then
as a function of temperature rise, the feedback does something that either causes temperature to rise more or less.
Not exact matches
The evolution
of temperature as a
function of latitude and the timing
of CO2
rise are shown below (at two different time periods in part a, see the caption).
Do you REALLY want to insist that those turned - off air conditioners could possibly
function as a source
of heat (or
temperature rise) under such conditions and actually warm up that cold room?
If one postulates that the global average surface
temperature tracks the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, possibly with some delay, then when the CO2 concentration continues to
rise monotonically but the global average surface
temperature shows fluctuations
as a
function of time with changes in slope (periods wherein it decreases), then you must throw the postulate away.
You provide references to two graphes showing a
rise in global
temperatures as a
function of time.
That is, the amount that surface
temperatures rise as a
function of the amount
of CO2 in the atmopshere.
But, just in case you were semi-serious: With oceans covering 70 %
of the earth's surface, you could never change atmospheric humidity — water vapor pressure is a
function of atmospheric
temperature, increasing
as temperature rises.
There are plenty
of tipping points like this: The Amazon, for instance, appears to be drying out and starting to burn
as temperatures rise and drought deepens, and without a giant rainforest in South America, the world would
function very differently.
In other words, to consider just the colder object,
as it emits energy to the warmer object it cools, but it also warms from the energy input
of the warmer object which causes its
temperature to
rise as a
function of the difference between its absortivity and its emissivity.
Because
of adiabatic lapse (think PV = nRT), the
temperature of the atmosphere drops rather quickly
as a
function of height until you get up to the thermosphere, where there is a large
rise in
temperature, but so rarefied an atmosphere
as not to have any significant impact on the atmospheric windows.
I mean that if there is no way to validate climate science via empirical measurement, especially the predictions
of temperature rise as a
function of CO2 concentration, then we are getting nowhere.
They also considered the rate
of decomposition
of soil carbon
as a
function of the
temperature at the freeze - thaw boundary, which sinks deeper and deeper
as the soil's
temperature rises.