{"id":284174,"date":"2023-10-20T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284174"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:32:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:32:29","slug":"physicists-co2-only-affects-10-of-ir-in-3-of-the-troposphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284174","title":{"rendered":"Physicists: CO2 Only Affects 10% Of IR In 3% Of The Troposphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The radiation balance of the Earth system is an\u00a0accounting of the incoming and outgoing components of radiation. These components are balanced over long time periods and over the Earth as whole. If they weren’t the Earth would be continually cooling or warming.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>19. October 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many scientifically invalid assumptions in the \u201cgreenhouse gas hypothesis\u201d that the editors of a journal, Earth System Dynamics (ESD)<\/em>, now insist they will never again allow to be subjected to critical analysis in future publications, as the editors of this journal are committed to only publishing studies agreeing with the \u201cconsensus.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In a editorial comment published in the MDPI journal Entropy<\/em> responding to an editorial written by the editors of ESD<\/em>, two Portuguese scientists (Khmelinskii and Woodcock, 2023<\/a><\/strong>) identify at least 8 assumptions in the \u201cgreenhouse gas hypothesis\u201d that lack scientific validation. Despite the lack of observational evidence supporting their viewpoints, proponents of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis prefer to dismiss and ignore challenges to what they believe is the \u201cconsensus\u201d \u2013 the opposite of what the scientific method requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For brevity\u2019s sake, only a few of the challenges are summarized below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 CO2 can only absorb 10% of all radiation in the specific IR bands CO2 affects. CO2 \u201cabsorbs absolutely nothing at all other IR wavelengths<\/em>.\u201d Thus, CO2 has no effect on IR in 90% of absorption bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 CO2 can only absorb IR in the top 300 m, or 0.3 km, of the surface-troposphere, which is 10 km thick. Thus, CO2 can only affect 10% of the IR in 3% of the surface-troposphere, where climate change occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Because of its vanishingly small effects, doubling CO2 concentrations could only lead to a 0.015\u00b0C surface temperature change, at most. Understatedly, \u201cthis effect would not even be measurable<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Uncertainty in the Earth\u2019s radiation balance is \u00b117 W\/m\u00b2. The estimated radiation imbalance is 0.6 W\/m\u00b2, which is \u201corders of magnitude\u201d smaller than the uncertainty in its derivation. Thus, the \u201cglobal balance of energy fluxes\u2026cannot be derived from measured fluxes<\/em>\u201c\u2026 and this \u201cprofoundly affects our ability to understand how Earth\u2019s climate responds to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The editors at\u00a0ESD<\/em>\u00a0do not view observational uncertainty \u2013 or questions regarding the magnitude of CO2\u2019s effects \u2013 as worthy of critical analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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