Many people often claim that the atmosphere cannot “heat” the earth’s surface and therefore the idea of the inappropriately-named “greenhouse” effect is scientifically impossible. The famous Second Law of Thermodynamics is invoked in support. Let’s avoid a semantic argument about the correct or incorrect use of the word “heat”. I claim that energy from the [...]
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The Real Second Law of Thermodynamics
Posted in Basic Science, Debunking Flawed "Science" on September 27, 2010 | 62 Comments »
Clouds and Water Vapor – Part Three
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Climate Models, Feedback on September 18, 2010 | 39 Comments »
In Part One we had a look at Ramanathan’s work (actually Raval and Ramanathan) attempting to measure the changes in outgoing longwave radiation vs surface temperature. In Part Two (Part Zero perhaps) we looked at some basics on water vapor as well as some measurements. The subject of the non-linear effects of water vapor was [...]
On Missing the Point by Chilingar et al (2008)
Posted in Debunking Flawed "Science" on September 17, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Someone on another blog reminded me about this paper – Cooling of Atmosphere due to CO2 Emission, by Chilingar, Khilyuk and Sorokhtin (2008). It’s clearly impressed many people, but it’s not a good paper. It’s main strength is misdirection. Traditional anthropogenic theory of currently observed global warming states that release of carbon dioxide into atmosphere (partially [...]
Heat Transfer Basics – Part Zero
Posted in Basic Science on September 12, 2010 | 135 Comments »
This post “follows” on from Heat Transfer Basics and Non-Radiative Atmospheres and Do Trenberth and Kiehl understand the First Law of Thermodynamics? and many other posts that cover some basics. It’s clear from comments on this blog and many other blogs that a lot of people have difficulty understanding simple scenarios because of a lack of understanding [...]
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