In the CO2 series we looked at the effect of CO2 without climate feedbacks. The “answer” to the doubling of CO2 was a “radiative forcing” of 3.7W/m^2 and an increase in surface temperature of about 1°C. What about feedbacks? There are many ways to introduce this problem. We’ll start with the great Ramanathan, who is [...]
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Clouds and Water Vapor – Part One
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Feedback on May 30, 2010 | 130 Comments »
The First Law of Thermodynamics Meets the Imaginary Second Law
Posted in Debunking Flawed "Science" on May 28, 2010 | 96 Comments »
Very soon we will finally get to a post with an interesting subject like climate feedback.. But first, just a few basic examples, following on from the recent post: Intelligent Materials and the Imaginary Second Law of Thermodynamics, which in turn followed on from a few before that. In the last post one of our frequent champions of [...]
Intelligent Materials and the Imaginary Second Law of Thermodynamics
Posted in Basic Science, Debunking Flawed "Science" on May 21, 2010 | 151 Comments »
In Radiation Basics and the Imaginary Second Law of Thermodynamics I covered a fair amount of ground because it started in answer to another question/point from a commenter. We all agree that the net effect of radiation between hot and colder bodies is that heat flows from the hotter to the colder body, but many people [...]
CO2 – An Insignificant Trace Gas? – Part Eight – Saturation
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Climate Models on May 12, 2010 | 76 Comments »
Introduction This is the long-promised eighth part of the seven-part series on CO2 basics. Part One introduced the idea of CO2 with some basic concepts. Part Three opened up the radiative transfer equations, not solvable on the pocket calculator. Part Five showed two important solutions. And Part Seven showed the current best solutions along with [...]
Radiation Basics and the Imaginary Second Law of Thermodynamics
Posted in Basic Science, Debunking Flawed "Science" on May 8, 2010 | 234 Comments »
This post will suffer from the unfortunate effect of too much maths – something I try to avoid in most posts and certainly did in The Imaginary Second Law of Thermodynamics. It’s especially unfortunate as the blog has recent new found interest thanks to the very kind and unexpected words of Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit. [...]
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The Woody Guthrie award
Posted in Commentary on May 19, 2010 | 16 Comments »
This is a very quick post to say thanks to John Cook of Skeptical Science for the recent “Woody Guthrie award for a thinking blogger” and especially the kind comments he made. The idea is the award gets passed on from blog to blog, to those whom they deem a ‘thinking blog’ I’m proud to be [...]
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