If you read many articles and comments in the blogosphere you would think that “skeptics” have discovered something hidden. Or highlighted an important truth that climate science is trying to hide. Water vapor is actually the dominant “greenhouse” gas This is true. If only climate science actually realized it and stopped pretending that CO2 was [...]
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Water Vapor vs CO2 as a “Greenhouse” Gas
Posted in Commentary on February 24, 2011 | 59 Comments »
Understanding Atmospheric Radiation and the “Greenhouse” Effect – Part Seven
Posted in Atmospheric Physics on February 9, 2011 | 63 Comments »
In the model simulations up until now the pCO2 band has been a constant – a fixed absorption band between the wavenumbers 600-800 cm-1. In this article we will see what happens when the band shape changes, but the “area under the curve” stays the same. If you are new to the series, take a [...]
Understanding Atmospheric Radiation and the “Greenhouse” Effect – Part Six – The Equations
Posted in Atmospheric Physics on February 7, 2011 | 79 Comments »
Many blogs write about over-simplifications of the radiative effects in climate. Many of these blog articles review simple explanations of how it is possible for atmospheric radiative effects to increase the surface temperature – e.g. the “blackbody shell” model. As a result many people are confused and imagine that climate science hasn’t got past “first [...]
Understanding Atmospheric Radiation and the “Greenhouse” Effect – Part Five
Posted in Atmospheric Physics on February 6, 2011 | 20 Comments »
In Part Four we took a first look at overlapping gases. pH2O’s absorption band was changed to overlap pCO2′s absorption band. And remember that pH2O has a much higher concentration in the lower atmosphere. For those who haven’t followed the series so far, these are fictional molecules with only a passing resemblance to the real [...]
Understanding Atmospheric Radiation and the “Greenhouse” Effect – Part Four
Posted in Atmospheric Physics on February 3, 2011 | 24 Comments »
In Part Three we saw some results of absorption and emission in the atmosphere but later I commented that the model had some flaws. Take a look at Part Three for more about the model. The Model Flaws and Update The model (v0.3.1) had poorly defined boundaries and as a result the downward flux through [...]
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Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on February 26, 2011 | 199 Comments »
Reading one good text book on climate science can save 100′s of hours of reading rubbish on the internet. And there is a lot (of rubbish). Well-meaning people without the baggage of any knowledge of the subject writing rubbish, then repeated by other well-meaning people. Text books cost money. But depending on which country you [...]
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