Latest Denier Argument from alt.global-warming - globalchange

Message from discussion Latest Denier Argument from alt.global-warming

Eric Swanson

More options Mar 25, 1:02 pm

From: Eric Swanson <e_swan...@skybest.com>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:02:13 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Tues, Mar 25 2008 1:02 pm

Subject: Re: Latest Denier Argument from alt.global-warming

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Nice to see that the Russians have discovered convection in the
Troposphere. I wonder how long it will take them to learn about the
emission/absorption properties of gases? For example, the outgoing
energy absorbed by CO2 is then re-radiated in all directions, that is
to say, downwards as well as upwards. More CO2 results in more
downward radiation, a fact which their reference to black body
emissions and Stefan-Boltzmann glosses over completely. Their
analysis also completely ignores the Stratosphere!!

There's other errors as well, such as their insistence that the solar
constant be divided by 2 instead of by 4 to compute the Earth's
outgoing energy per unit area, which they claim is necessary since the
axis is tilted. That claim ignores the fact that the atmosphere and
oceans move considerable quantities of energy toward the polar
regions, which compensates for the fact that there is no solar energy
at the poles during the respective winter months.

E. S.
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Roger Coppock wrote:
> Please see download the PDF file,
> "CO2 greenhouse effect.pdf", at:

> http://www.sendspace.com/file/lrw29h

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