A SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD CASE STUDY: DOES “THE ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE GREENHOUSE EFFECT” DO WHAT IT’S SUPPOSED TO DO? First, what is the rGHE supposed to do? It is supposed to make the surface below a radiatively active atmosphere warmer than if this particular kind of atmosphere weren’t there. By extension, one could claim – and this […]
This turned out to be a longer post (the first of two) than what I had originally planned. The actual presentation and analysis of data starts only about halfway through. If you don’t much care for my ranting about how ‘the climate establishment’ deliberately employ specious arguments and methods to try and make us believe and […]
Update (March 24th) at the end of this post – a kind of response from Feldman. There was much ado recently about a new paper published in ‘Nature’ (“Observational determination of surface radiative forcing by CO2 from 2000 to 2010″ by Feldman et al.) claiming to have observed a strengthening in CO2-specific “surface radiative forcing” at two sites […]
We’re still discussing Willis Eschenbach’s ‘Steel Greenhouse’. How come the warming EFFECT of putting the shell around the sphere is real but Eschenbach’s “back radiation” EXPLANATION of how it comes about is wrong? Simply put, it’s because the effect doesn’t violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, but the explanation does. In Part 1 and Part […]
