Again, if there were something to measure, we would be measuring it and be well on our way to establishing the «Laws
of Radiative Greenhouse Effect».
Not exact matches
By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric
greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature
of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference
of 33 C is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas
of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption
of a
radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric
greenhouse conjecture is falsified
The
effects of other well - mixed
greenhouse gases can be accurately translated into
radiative forcings.
... The Earth's atmospheric methane concentration has increased by about 150 % since 1750, and it accounts for 20 %
of the total
radiative forcing from all
of the long - lived and globally mixed
greenhouse gases (these gases don't include water vapor which is by far the largest component
of the
greenhouse effect).
Four and a half billion years after its birth, the shrouded planet is much too hot to support the presence
of liquid water on its surface because
of its dense carbon dioxide atmosphere and sulfuric acid clouds, which retain too much
radiative heat from the Sun through a runaway
greenhouse effect.
So, from my lack
of understanding here, I think the question revolves around «significance»,
of the total mechanisms in relation to potential to alter
radiative forcing and enhancing the
greenhouse effect.
By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric
greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature
of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference
of 33 C is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas
of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption
of a
radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric
greenhouse conjecture is falsified
The fact that there is a natural
greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage
of long wave (LW) radiation from the Earth's surface to space) is easily deducible from i) the mean temperature
of the surface (around 15ºC) and ii) knowing that the planet is roughly in
radiative equilibrium.
There are another couple
of links between iv) therefore England was warmer back then, and v) therefore increasing
greenhouse gases have no
radiative effect.
That gives you some idea
of the basic nature
of infrared
effects of greenhouse gases, but it still won't address some
of the subtler points concerning
radiative transfer and the
effect of band saturation — except insofar as band saturation is used in the explanation
of why the
radiative effect of CO2 is roughly logarithmic.
I had been preparing comments to explain — how LW
radiative forcing (
greenhouse effect) works, why forcing from CO2 is approximately linearly proportional to CO2 at sufficiently small amounts
of CO2 and approximately logarithmically proportional to CO2 within a range
of larger amounts, and then how the climate responds to forcings, but that got very very long and so I'm going to hold off on that.
Kasting had one very primitive go at a
radiative - convective study
of the
effect of clouds on runaway
greenhouse, which suggested that clouds might prevent the whole ocean from going aloft.
The
effects of other well - mixed
greenhouse gases can be accurately translated into
radiative forcings.
you're missing the point —
radiative heat transfer is the smallest part
of the climate system — it just works better for their pet theory — called the
greenhouse effect — that was proven wrong almost a century ago!
«But no
radiative data is used» It must be incorporated in his model, he states «The all - sky climatological
greenhouse effect (the difference
of the all - sky surface upward flux and absorbed solar flux) at this surface is equal to the reflected solar radiation.»
RealOldOne2 states that the
greenhouse effect is real — he states that the increase
radiative emission from GHGs results in the surface emitting less energy than it would if it were radiating straight to space as a result
of sentient molecules.
Instead, Miskolczi appears to have become obsessed in trying to explain the
greenhouse effect in terms
of century - old outdated Schuster - Schwarzschild analytic formulations derived for a spectrally gray, homogenous,
radiative equilibrium atmosphere.
Between 1990 and 2015, the bulletin says, there was a 37 percent increase in
radiative forcing — the warming
effect on the climate — because
of long - lived
greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from industrial, agricultural and domestic activities.
The
radiative Greenhouse Effect is continually overridden as a result
of the size
of the constant interlinked changes in both the solar energy input to the oceans and the oceanic heat inputs to the atmosphere.
The
radiative effects of human emissions
of ozone - depleting substances and
greenhouse gases have driven marked atmospheric cooling at stratospheric altitudes.
For this reason, we consider here the
effects on the stratosphere
of not only emissions
of ozone - depleting substances (ODSs), but also
of emissions
of greenhouse gases, natural phenomena (e.g., solar variability and volcanic eruptions), and chemical,
radiative, and dynamical sratosphere / troposphere coupling
Then you say: «Your last item [Cooling
of the Stratosphere consistent with operation
of Greenhouse Effect] is just enhanced
radiative cooling due to increased CO2.
I think the reason is that there is confusion between the so called
radiative greenhouse effect from so called
greenhouse gases in the air as proposed by AGW supporters and the longstanding and well accepted
effect of pressure creating the Adiabatic Lapse Rate.
However, the second law is not violated by the
greenhouse effect,
of course, since, during the
radiative exchange, in both directions the net energy flows from the warmth to the cold.»
The latest research suggests that it amounts to about 4 percent
of the «
radiative forcing,» which is the fancy term scientists use to talk about the overall warming
effects of greenhouse gases.
Radiative - covective models put the surface albedo, gas composition and their infrared absorption together with the solar irradiation into account, this gives a first guess
of the top
of troposphere, surface temperature and
greenhouse effect (= surface temperature — radiation temperature).
The
radiative effects of greenhouse gases seem fairly obvious and have been since I read the first IPCC report all those years ago.
For instance the earth's global ocean already has an albedo close to zero so
greenhouse gases are limited there and because GHGs modus operandi is restricting
radiative cooling and the ocean is still free to cool evaporatively there is no first order significant
effect of greenhouse gases over a liquid ocean.
(For clarity regarding my reference to evidence «confirmed by satellite», in that particular case I was referring to measurements
of radiative flux that confirm the
greenhouse effect).
This unique feature
of the Antarctic atmosphere has been shown to result in a negative
greenhouse effect and a negative instantaneous
radiative forcing at the top
of the atmosphere (RFTOA: INST), when carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations are increased, and it has been suggested that this
effect might play some role in te recent cooling trends observed over East Antarctica.
Arctic is the only part
of the world today that is still warming, no thanks to any
radiative forcing or the
greenhouse effect.
The bottom
of the atmosphere is warmer than the average
of the atmosphere for reasons which are not due to a «
radiative greenhouse effect», not the least
of which reason that that
greenhouse effect doesn't exist and violates the laws
of thermodynamics.
This causes a
radiative forcing that leads to an enhancement
of the
greenhouse effect, the so - called enhanced
greenhouse effect.
Willis» steel
greenhouse in vacuum really is the best representation
of the climate science
radiative greenhouse effect.
There is no amount
of sophistry that can get around this extremely basic and fundamental natural law
of our universe, and is precisely why a Perpetuum Mobile is impossible in this universe, and also precisely why heat can not pile up, and precisely why a «
radiative greenhouse effect» is also impossible in this universe.
That's the topic
of my more recent paper and the above linked article, and that's what debunks any
radiative greenhouse effect.
The «steel
greenhouse» concept for demonstrating the
radiative greenhouse effect has been debunked many times on this blog (the least reason
of which its advocates attempt to conserve temperature instead
of energy!)
First, whether or not the MWP or LIA were global in extent has nothing to do with AGW, which is based upon the known
radiative effect of greenhouse gases and the amounts we are pumping into the atmosphere.
Climate science, as based on its
radiative greenhouse effect and its «heat pile up» postulate, is founded on an entirely irrational and non-existent premise, as we see the result
of for example in the last post.
The following diagram is how climate science thinks
of heat flow and thermodynamics, and all others who subscribe to «steel
greenhouse» ideas and the climate science
radiative greenhouse effect:
... once I had one
of them tell me that the
radiative greenhouse effect was proved by cavitation off
of a nuclear submarine propeller... be aware that this is what they will do, how low they will go.
Chief, you write «Our results provide direct experimental evidence for a significant increase in the Earth's
greenhouse effect that is consistent with concerns over
radiative forcing
of climate.»
What is significant for the implications
of climate «science» is the hypothesis
of radiative equilibrium and the model used to describe the «
greenhouse effect».
Carbon dioxide is one
of the
greenhouse gases that enhances
radiative forcing and contributes to global warming, causing the average surface temperature
of the Earth to rise in response, which the vast majority
of climate scientists agree will cause major ** adverse
effects **.
Andrew Lacis wrote: (3) Water vapor and clouds account for about 75 % the strength
of the terrestrial
greenhouse effect, but are feedback
effects that require sustained
radiative forcing to maintain their atmospheric distribution.
Our understanding
of things like the
greenhouse effect and the
radiative properties
of CO2 are observable properties
of the atmosphere and CO2 that do not depend upon computer models.
This is similar to the error they make when they claim that
greenhouse gases can produce temperature increases 3 - 5 times that
of the direct
radiative effects of doubling CO2 (through the action
of non-linear feedbacks), but deny that small changes in insolation can produce
effects that are much larger than can predicted from the original forcing.
Instead, the aim
of our Science paper was to illustrate as clearly and as simply as possible the basic operating principles
of the terrestrial
greenhouse effect in terms
of the sustaining
radiative forcing that is provided by the non-condensing
greenhouse gases, which is further augmented by the feedback response
of water vapor and clouds.
Radiative forcing
of climate by trace gases is commonly referred to as the «
greenhouse effect.»
A companion study led by one
of the co-authors quantifies that CO2 is responsible for 80 per cent
of the
radiative forcing that sustains the
greenhouse effect.