Greenhouse effect: “How a cold atmosphere can warm the Earth’s surface”

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/22/greenhouse-effect-how-a-cold-atmosphere-can-warm-the-earths-surface/

My reply:

[[First of all, the temperature of anything depends upon the rates of energy GAIN and energy LOSS. When those 2 are equal, temperature remains the same; if they are unequal, the temperature changes.]]

This is so embarrassing for a man of Spencer's education to be stuck at the starting gates when it comes to understanding thermodynamics.

The temperature of an object depends on its internal kinetic energy. But solar radiation isn't heat or kinetic energy, it's just energy. Only when it hits the Earth's surface do some wavelengths get absorbed and turn into heat.  Others simply bounce off, which is why we can see in daylight what we can't see at night.

Where does Earth surface heating come from?  The Sun, and nothing else. The Sun is a Planck radiator with a temperature T of 5800K.  After absorption of various wavelengths, the Earth's surface attains a temperature of -50C to +50C.  It then becomes a Planck radiator at that temperature, after which the radiation tries to head to space. The catch is that air absorbs a good portion of the heat via conduction then rises it toward space via convection. This means the whole air, not just the CO2 trace fraction. Since the air is always cooler than the surface, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is satisfied. In short, Earth's atmosphere isn't a greenhouse it's a giant chimney, and CO2 does zilcho except feed photosynthesis of plant life.

The so-called Greenhouse Theory is a scam pushed by the U.N. IPCC, which is run by leftist environmentalists and globalist Marxists with an axe to grind against the fossil fuel industry for underpinning and supporting their archenemy capitalism. As hardcore Marxists, they believe that the end justifies the means, hence hijacking science to make useful idiots for the cause is always on the table. They're the ones mixing science and politics, not the fossil fuel industry, which just exists to satisfy consumer demand to fuel the comfortable wealthy convenient Western lifestyle they hate so much.

So after giving up on other emissions, they fastened on CO2 emissions, trying to paint them as evil as a killer argument to dismantle the fossil fuel industry without a fair trial and due process.  What do they claim? That atmospheric CO2 "traps and piles heat", warming the Earth's climate, and since CO2 emissions never quit rising, we've got only X months/years before an irreversible tipping point leading to climate Armageddon.

Too bad, they're pushing a deliberate fake physics hoax that CO2 can cause global heating via radiation, without wanting you to know that its absorption/emission wavelength of 15 microns has a Planck radiation temperature of -80C, colder than dry ice, and ISN'T HEAT.

They also want to snow people like Spencer with talk about "energy", claiming that CO2's radiation of so many watts per square meter adds to the Sun's and raises the surface temperature, i.e., that it's only about gain and loss, usually ditching the Planck Radiation Law in favor of the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, with its complicated-looking T^4 equations that awe and fool non-scientists, and are ridiculously misapplied because they try to use them with non-coalesced (liquid and solid) objects like er, air, showing imaginary glass panes in the sky with arrows pointing up and down like a circus attraction, all labeled with T^4 moose hockey  The-S-B Law gives total radiant power in watts per square meter, meaning radiation from a 2-dimensional surface, not watts per cubic meter like would be necessary for a gas.

Sorry, but the S-B Law is irrelevant. It's about the Planck Radiation Law instead, which demands that cold radiation can't raise the temperature of a hotter object because the latter is already emitting that same cold radiation to cool, and extra cold radiation will bounce off or be chewed up and spit out. CO2's -80C radiation can't even melt an ice cube, which is way hotter at 0C.  If you put a water ice cube and a dry ice cube in the same glass, the ice will melt (sublimate) the CO2, not vice versa.

So Zonk! -80C radiation can't melt an ice cube! Greenhouse Theory disproved, QED. The CO2-driven AGW theory is dead and just hasn't been buried yet. The IPCC fake physics hoax is doomed to the trash heap of history when/if we all get on the same team chanting the same chorus:

JUST SAY NOT TO THE IPCC AND -80C.  ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CAN'T MELT A BUCKET OF FROZEN PEE.

We need to reverse their political campaign and demand that the IPCC be dismantled or purged, and that they give us our money back.

I did the Planck equation math here. Please feel free to forward the link everywhere. I'm sure the IPCC's big bucks won't be used to spread it:

http://www.historyscoper.com/thebiglieaboutco2.html

- T.L. Winslow (TLW), the Historyscoper (tm)
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