Climate scientists think that the rotation of the earth is responsible for a lot of the atmospheric and ocean effects that we see. In fact, most climate scientists think it is easy to prove. (Although not as simple as proving that radiatively-active gases affect the climate). Now suppose the earth’s rotation speed was reducing by [...]
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The Rotational Effect
Posted in Commentary on January 11, 2012 | 37 Comments »
Kramm & Dlugi On Dodging the “Greenhouse” Bullet
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on January 5, 2012 | 111 Comments »
In Kramm & Dlugi On Illuminating the Confusion of the Unclear I pointed out that the authors of Scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact are in agreement with climate science on the subject of “back radiation” from the atmosphere contributing to the surface temperature. No surprise to people familiar with the basics of radiative [...]
Kramm & Dlugi On Illuminating the Confusion of the Unclear
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on January 3, 2012 | 156 Comments »
Many people are confused about science basics when it comes to the inappropriately-named “greenhouse” effect. This can be easily demonstrated in many blogs around the internet where commenters, and even blog owners, embrace multiple theories that contradict each other but are somehow against the “greenhouse” effect. Recently a new paper: Scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect [...]
What’s the Palaver? – Kiehl and Trenberth 1997
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Commentary on June 21, 2011 | 115 Comments »
A long time ago I started writing this article. I haven’t yet finished it. I realized that trying to write it was difficult because the audience criticism was so diverse. Come to me you huddled masses.. This paper, so simple in concept, has become somehow the draw card for “everyone against AGW”. The reasons why are [...]
The Mystery of Tau – Miskolczi – Part Four – Emissivity
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on May 1, 2011 | 293 Comments »
In Part Two we looked at the claimed relationship ED=AA in Miskolczi’s 2007 paper. Ed = downward atmospheric radiation absorbed by the surface Aa = surface radiation absorbed in the atmosphere I showed that they could not be exactly equal. Ferenc Miskolczi himself has just joined the discussion and confirmed: I think I was the first [...]
The Mystery of Tau – Miskolczi – Part Three – Kinetic Energy
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary, Debunking Flawed "Science" on April 26, 2011 | 123 Comments »
In Part One we looked at the calculation of total atmospheric optical thickness. In Part Two we looked at the claim that the surface and atmosphere exchanged exactly equal amounts of energy by radiation. A thermodynamics revolution if it is true, as the atmosphere is slightly colder than the surface. This claim is not necessary [...]
The Mystery of Tau – Miskolczi – Part Two – Kirchhoff
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary, Debunking Flawed "Science" on April 25, 2011 | 87 Comments »
In Part One we looked at the usefulness of “tau” = optical thickness of the atmosphere. Miskolczi has done a calculation (under cloudless skies) of the total optical thickness of the atmosphere. The reason he is apparently the first to have done this in a paper is explained in Part One. The 2010 paper referenced the [...]
The Mystery of Tau – Miskolczi
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Commentary on April 22, 2011 | 60 Comments »
Many people have requested an analysis of Miskolczi’s theories. I start with his more recent paper: The Stable Stationary Value of the Earth’s Global Average Atmospheric Planck-Weighted Greenhouse-Gas Optical Thickness, Energy & Environment (2010). It’s an interesting paper and clearly Miskolczi has put a lot of time and effort into it. I recommend people read the paper [...]
Find Stuff Out and Book Reviews
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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“Blah blah blah” vs Equations
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on January 30, 2012 | 233 Comments »
It is not surprising that the people most confused about basic physics are the ones who can’t write down an equation for their idea. The same people are the most passionate defenders of their beliefs and I have no doubts about their sincerity. I’ll meander into what it is I want to explain.. I found [...]
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