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| | Many people often claim that the atmosphere cannot "heat" the earth's surface and therefore the idea of the inappropriately-named "greenhouse" effect is scientifically impossible. The famous Second Law of Thermodynamics is invoked in support. Let's avoid a semantic argument about the correct or incorrect use of the word "heat". I claim that energy from the...
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| | by Judith Curry With over 1000 comments on Saturday's greenhouse thread, here is a new thread devoted to technical discussions of Joseph Postma's paper on the greenhouse effectand Chris Colose's rebuttal at Skeptical Science. A primer on solar insolation is excerpted from text Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, link [thermo txt].
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| | Before we start, I'd like to thank ESA's Mark McCaughrean who helped kick off this article by referring me to two key articles that lay out, in scientific terms, how global warming really works. Here you can pick your favorite temperature unit: C F (Test temperature: ) Feel free to skip this wordy intro and head straight to the model, or even to the summary at the end of this post!
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| Figure 1 Ocean Heat Content data represents the heat stored of the oceans to specified depths. As such, it is an important global warming metric. The Introduction to Levitus et al (2005) begins: Based on the physical properties and mass of the world ocean as compared to other components of Earth's climate system, Rossby [1959]...