https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/17/atmospheric-energy-recycling/
My reply:
[[A particular layer of the atmosphere is assumed to be at a temperature, T₁. This temperature is the temperature that equalizes the flows of energy entering and leaving that layer. According to the diagram, the layer will emit long-wave radiant energy equally in all directions, with a flux fσT₁⁴ being sent upward and an equal flux being sent downward.]]
This paragraph along with the whole nonsense diatribe is pure dodo climate science.
You can immediately throw it in the trash when you see imaginary atmospheric layers with T^4 arrows coming out of them up and down. This is total ignorance, because gases don't emit black body radiation, only photon by photon radiation at specific wavelengths based on absorption and reemission. A black body must be solid or liquid, and its number one power is the ability to absorb and emit radiation at all wavelengths. In the Earth-Sun climate system, only the Sun and the Earth are black bodies. The atmosphere doesn't qualify. Their total power output over all wavelengths comes nowhere close to anything times T^4, and indeed doesn't depend on T, only the incident photons.
End of this dodo line of reasoning.
I already blocked Wentworth on Quora after finding him pushing every IPCC hoax and then denying any connection with them while coming back over and over palming himself off as an expert. It didn't take long to find out that his understanding of radiative physics is nil, especially when he failed to even mention key laws until I taught him.
Who am I? Go ahead and check me out. Do you believe that Wentworth has any credibility? Would you like to learn real climate science that destroys every IPCC lie? The only place to go is my free Climate Science 101 course that I spent years perfecting to cover every key physical law methodically and answer all objections. Until you master it you'll always be a climate science dodo, open to IPCC-twisted brain manure dumps like this one.
http://www.historyscoper.com/climatescience101.html
My reply:
This type of analysis is like the blind leading the blind.
First and foremost, they never mention entropy. Without this the energy budget is a fairy story. Every time heat and work are interconverted, some energy is irretrievably dispersed (dissipated), adding to the Heat Death of the Universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(energy_dispersal)
Second, so-called back radiation from the atmosphere to Earth's surface has no heating power. It's not about the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, but the basic Planck Radiation Law. Once 5500C solar radiation heats Earth's surface to some temperature T, it begins cooling via the Planck radiation curve. Returning a small segment of this radiation to the surface can't make it into a new curve with a higher T - only more 5500C solar energy can do that. Downward recycled surface radiation can't even slow down the cooling below the Planck radiation temperature of the radiation. CO2's 15 micron radiation has a Planck radiation temperature of -80C, lower than the surface ever gets, so it just bounces around until entropy disperses it without heating anything.
Articles like this use what I like to call dodo climate science, based on the beehive of lies of the U.N. IPCC octopus whose sole raison d'entre is to find a pony in the manure and declare CO2 emissions evil. I don't have much of a marketing machine, but my new Climate Science 101 course, based on decades of study is refounding climate science on true physical principles, and there's no room in it for CO2 heating. Quit listening to dodo climate scientists and join my new "woke" real climate scientists now before you get hoaxed some more.
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https://principia-scientific.com/manmade-global-warming-the-story-the-reality/
My reply:
The only way that atmospheric H20 can be a greenhouse gas that can radiate IR back to Earth’s surface and raise its temperature is if it’s in gaseous form, because H20 is a polar molecule. Vapor contains water droplets, which are Planck radiators, but only at the temperature of the frigid ambient air, hence useless for surface heating. Even if there were gaseous H20 in the sky any radiation from it would likely soon be absorbed by water vapor, rendering it useless for surface heating. To even be in the sky, surface H20 has had to soak up a bunch of surface heat, cooling it from the get-go. The lapse rate insures that the atmosphere quickly grows frigid with altitude. When precipitation falls, it cools the Earth’s surface more than the Sun ever heated it.
Thus it’s a misnomer to call atmospheric H20 a greenhouse gas.It’s actually a refrigerator in the sky.
https://climateofsophistry.com/2021/04/12/how-to-solve-the-dual-pane-parallel-plate-problem/ \
My reply:
The horrible global Marxist U.N. IPCC money train is still gathering steam despite its whole rationale being a fake physics hoax. Now Pres. Biden is threatening a Holocaust for the U.S. with his all-embracing plans to sink the economy in leftist redistribution of wealth which is no longer even trying to hide its real intent of "climate justice", which is what the IPCC was pushing all along instead of climate amelioration.
https://papundits.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/biden-environmental-justice-appointees-equate-energy-production-fossil-fuels-with-racism/
https://stopthesethings.com/2021/04/09/green-new-deal-pointless-posturing-joe-bidens-trillion-dollar-wind-solar-boondoggle/
As mad as that makes me, all I can do is teach real thermal physics in hopes of developing a new generation of "woke" physicists. Join the growing students of my Climate Science 101 course and arm your mind to fight IPCC lies:
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My reply:
Yes, it's an imaginary climate crisis, because the leftist environmentalists and global Marxists at the U.N. IPCC have been feeding it with imaginary physics, which pretends that 5500C photons from the Sun have the same heating power as -80C photons from atmospheric CO2.
Their big con is to turn the Stefan-Boltzmann Law inside-out by claiming that just because a Planck black body at some temperature T radiates a power-wavelength curve that has a total power proportional to T^3, atmospheric "back radiation" can raise the body's temperature no matter how long/cold these wavelengths are, just based on total power. In reality, only photons at a temperature hotter than T can raise the body's temperature, and only if there enough of them. Hence, CO2's weak puny 15 micron photons have no heating power no matter their power.
The IPCC gets away with its trillion-dollar hoax by taking advantage of mass ignorance of thermal physics, even among physicists. Take my free Climate Science 101 course and join my new woke generation:
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It's too bad the current brouhaha about CO2 is so narrowly focused. So what if a higher concentration in the atmosphere raises global average temps? If higher temps were accompanied by increased atmospheric moisture, it would even out around the world and turn it into a paradise planet, greening the deserts so that the teeming billions could be fed. Cold temperatures are inimical to life, not a goal of life.
Too bad, it might take a lot more CO2 than you think to really change the global weather, but not because it has any control over Earth's surface temperatures. In fact atmospheric CO2 can't melt an ice cube with its 15 micron main radiation wavelength that has a Planck radiation temperature of -80C, colder than dry ice (-78.5C).
Why do they call CO2 greenhouse gas? Because plants breathe it, and they pump it into greenhouses to help them grow and thrive. Polar regions and deserts look good in postcards, but who wants to live there. Meanwhile global pop. is zooming, so obviously the real answer is to pump more CO2 and water vapor into the atmosphere to turn the Earth into a greenhouse, turning deserts both hot and cold into lush green crop-growing regions like 35 million years ago when the avg. global temp was 88F and the CO2 level was 1K parts per million (vs. 415 PPM today). So what if we lose some desert polar regions and even some yummy coastline, the adjustments will be inconvenient but temporary, but I prefer shirt-sleeve weather to Frosty the Snowman. How many arctic animals can't adapt to a warmer climate? What animal needs to live in ice and snow and wouldn't like a vacation to Tahiti? They can lose the fat, hair or feathers.
The real question is can we make and keep the global CO2/H20 levels high enough, and for how long? Sooner or later mass global starvation will become unstoppable if world pop. keeps climbing, and this is the way to forestall it, if we act soon enough. Don't give me them Malthusian objections, give me some CO2/H20 solutions. I like a paradise Earth in the possibility window.
So, while the world is debating the horrors, extent or lack thereof of global warming caused by CO2, let's engineer the CO2/H20 solution to making the Earth a warm temperate planet from pole to pole with no deserts or ice wastelands, allowing vastly more food to be grown and turning poor nations rich. I DON'T mean a planet with wild swings between super-hot summers and super-cold winters, but one that is warmer than now everywhere, but moister and greener, with a giant network of plant life helping to avoid extremes. Since CO2 and water vapor are the keys, and the paltry amounts in the atmosphere need to be increased as soon as possible to turn deserts green and get the warming process off to a good start, but the new levels have to be maintained permanently, I'm looking to remote Antarctica (which is really a sea) as the most promising source for unlimited CO2 and water vapor generation, given that noxious emissions (sulfur dioxide, etc.) can be controlled.
This blog is for posting news on the world climate situation, scientific and political, along with my own articles. I'm sure it will start out with hardly any interest or followers, but I'm hoping that it will attract the smartest people eventually and in the end I hope for a global consensus that if it can be done it must be done.
So what is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project? My working idea is that an international effort to reactivate as many volcanoes in Antarctica as possible in an ideal location for distributing the CO2/H20 will produce the best and most cost-effective results. Sorry, one-worlders, it won't give you a license to override and control any country's economy, but if your country is suffering from lack of food you will be too busy expanding farming to care. Hence until I think of or hear about a better way to increase world CO2/H20 levels, this is my pet project. If you are a scientist, please climb aboard my AVP Express and let's make it happen.
It Would Be Funny If It Were's So Sad
It would be funny it weren't so sad, but when the scientists say "greenhouse gas" they are using a malaprop. It should be greenhouse GLASS, because that's why a greenhouse stays warm, by glass walls stopping convection of air and trapping heat. Yes, CO2 is pumped into greenhouses, but not for heating purposes, only to help plants BREATHE. So the whole sucker's game of "greenhouse gas" must truly be for the purpose of stopping more vegetation from growing and feeding the teeming billions. Is that their true goal? Another blip on the horizon is the promise of melting permafrost releasing gigantic amounts of CO2 from the Arctic not Antarctic sector. Let's hope we at least get some more good CO2 that way.
Jan. 14, 2011. Good article on CO2 levels and global temps 30-40 million years ago
Aug. 31, 2011. Giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climate experiment
May 31, 2013. Scientists find that higher CO2 levels green arid regions
Mar. 30, 2015. Higher atmospheric CO2 levels causing boom in vegetation
Aug. 2015. 'Unprecedented' volcanic eruption released enough water vapor to heat Earth: report
Aug. 15, 2017. Scientists find 91 new volcanoes miles beneath Antarctica's thick ice sheet
How Much CO2 Do Volcanoes Emit?
Will a major volcanic eruption fix climate change? - James Matkin
Part of the heat is coming from beneath our feet
Did any volcanoes erupt in 2020?
T.L. Winslow (TLW, the Historyscoper (tm)
