IF co2 were retaining heat would not the satellites record a drop in escaping heat from the Earth, last time I checked there was no appreciable change in
radiative heat loss from the Earth
A fundamental law of physics, known as the Planck's law, says that
radiative heat loss from any object depends on its temperature.
This, and the radiative emission rate allows you to calculate
the radiative heat loss from a packet of atmosphere.
Not exact matches
With a dominant internal component having the structure of the observed warming, and with
radiative restoring strong enough to keep the forced component small, how can one keep the very strong
radiative restoring
from producing
heat loss from the oceans totally inconsistent with any measures of changes in oceanic
heat content?
''... how can one keep the very strong
radiative restoring
from producing
heat loss from the oceans totally inconsistent with any measures of changes in oceanic
heat content?»
On the moon the only mechanism for
heat loss is
radiative to space and conductive
from the interior to the surface.
Radiative losses alone
from open ocean at 32 F is more than twice this value, and evaporative
losses would remove additional
heat from the ocean surface to the tropopause where it can radiate to space.
An increase in average DLR, all other things being equal, must cause an equal increase in the sum of
radiative and convective
heat loss so that the net
heat flow
from the ocean to the atmosphere and space remains constant.
It seems to me that so far, having determined that
radiative energy can slow the
heat loss from the surface, the questions which remain unresolved are:
An increase in LW flux
from the atmosphere means SST has to go up as well because the net
radiative heat loss decreases.