It is worth noting that, in the absence of convection,
pure greenhouse warming would lead to a globally averaged surface temperature of 72 °C given current conditions.
Not exact matches
Our current average temperature, 15 °C, is actually much closer to the blackbody temperature without any
greenhouse warming than to the
pure greenhouse result.
Hansen told the Sensate in 1988 that he personally had detected the
greenhouse effect by observing a hundred year
warming thayt could not have happened by
pure chance.