> 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
