Sentences with phrase «whole planetary surface»

And the global mean temperature is indeed a function of the temperature over the whole planetary surface.

Not exact matches

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

ABM: The whole point about the greenhouse gases in a planetary atmosphere is that they absorb the infrared radiation emitted by the surface, and so Kirchhoff's law does not apply.

But we have known for 2 whole centuries the effect of GHG on planetary atmospheres and surfaces, pretty well proven 200 years ago.

The whole concept of direct radiation supposedly heating the surface to observed temperatures is wrong and a totally different paradigm involving entropy maximization and thermodynamics at the molecular level is now known to be what explains planetary surface temperatures being higher than what can be explained with radiation.

I've tried to make it clear in my previous post that the imbalance of the whole planet is eventually communicated to the surface, and proper considerations of the surface temperature can not be determined without invoking satisfaction of the planetary energy budget (and in fact you can't even complete the discussion of the surface budget without talking about the primary of TOA fluxes).