Redefining Physics Dexter Wright re-defined the radiative transfer equations in his American Thinker article “Global Warming on Trial” with these immortal words: Clearly, H2O absorbs more than ten times the amount of energy in the IR spectrum as does CO2. Furthermore, H2O is more than one hundred times more abundant in the atmosphere than CO2. [...]
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The Strange Case of Stratospheric Water Vapor, Non-linearities and Groceries
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Climate Models on April 28, 2010 | 26 Comments »
Tropospheric Basics
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Basic Science on April 24, 2010 | 30 Comments »
More on climate basics.. Why is the lower atmosphere – the troposphere – like it is? Pressure The pressure vs altitude relationship is the first point to understand. Notice that (in the graphic above) the left vertical axis – height – is linear, while the right hand corresponding vertical axis – pressure – [...]
Stratospheric Cooling
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Climate Models on April 18, 2010 | 79 Comments »
In 1967 Journal of Atmospheric Sciences published the paper: Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity by Manabe and Wetherald. Here is one interesting model projection: The corresponding note says: Can this be true? How can “greenhouse” gases reduce temperature? Is this another “global warming causes more snow [...]
Sensible Heat, Latent Heat and Radiation
Posted in Basic Science, Measurement on April 9, 2010 | 48 Comments »
Many questions have recently been asked about the relative importance of various mechanisms for moving heat to and from the surface, so this article covers a few basics. One Fine Day – the Radiation Components I added some color to help pick out the different elements, note that temperature variation is also superimposed [...]
The Dull Case of Emissivity and Average Temperatures
Posted in Measurement on April 7, 2010 | 19 Comments »
This post covers a dull subject. If you are new to Science of Doom, the subject matter here will quite possibly be the least interesting in the entire blog. At least, up until now. It’s possible that new questions will be asked in future which will compel me to write posts that climb to new [...]
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On the Miseducation of the Uninformed by Gerlich and Tscheuschner (2009)
Posted in Commentary on April 5, 2010 | 210 Comments »
In On Having a Laugh – by Gerlich and Tscheuschner (2009) I commented that I had only got to page 50 and there were 115 pages in total. Because there were so many errors already spotted, none central to the argument (the argument hadn’t started even at page 50), it seemed a pointless exercise to [...]
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