Unless one can properly appreciate the nature and scale of the effect that an atmosphere has
on planetary surface temperature the entire underlying debate is impossible to assess meaningfully.
In the search for other Earths, the main goal is to find a planet the same size as ours that sits in the habitable zone — the region around a given star
where planetary surface temperature would be similar to ours, allowing liquid water to exist.
The fact is that unless one can properly appreciate the nature and scale of the effect that an atmosphere has on
planetary surface temperature then the significance of my article and indeed the entire underlying debate is impossible to assess meaningfully.
The gravitationally induced temperature gradient in every planetary troposphere is fully sufficient to explain
all planetary surface temperatures.
«I've written a bunch of papers saying human beings are warming
the planetary surface temperature,» he said.
In this two shell case,
the planetary surface temperature (in W / m2) will be three times the initial surface temperature.
Try reading «
Planetary Surface Temperatures.
Hockey Schtick January 21, 2014 at 5:32 pm «Not true,
planetary surface temperatures on Earth and other planets can be fully explained by the adiabatic lapse rate + solar insolation alone, no IR active gases required, only equivalent atmospheric pressure + solar insolation.»