{"id":293531,"date":"2024-01-02T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293531"},"modified":"2024-01-02T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:46:48","slug":"new-year-resolution-be-thankful-for-co2s-cooling-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293531","title":{"rendered":"New Year Resolution: BE THANKFUL FOR CO2\u2019S COOLING EFFECT!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Jim Steele<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CO2\u2019s Greenhouse effect is solid science but only tells half the story. Due to the greenhouse effect of water vapor and CO2, the earth cools slowly enough to raise the average temperature above freezing and reach a life-enhancing 59F. You can feel the greenhouse effect when camping in the desert or dry climate. The sun can heat the surface to extremes, like the 1913 world record temperature of 134F in Death Valley California. But with cloudless nights and a reduced greenhouse effect night-time temperatures plummet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our lower atmosphere, greenhouse gases are saturated and intercept most exiting infrared radiation. So very little heat escapes radiatively from the surface. But that\u2019s just half the story, and climate changes requires better critical thinking!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earth\u2019s surface does emit 10-20% of its infrared heat in wavelengths that do escape unimpeded through the \u201catmospheric window\u201d<\/strong> unaffected by greenhouse gases. In contrast, only very specific wavelengths are emitted by atmospheric greenhouse gases. You can witness this difference on a cold winters day when rising smoke suddenly flattens out. Because the earth\u2019s surface cools faster via the atmospheric window than the atmosphere, the smoke rises through the colder air cooled by the surface, but not through the warmer air above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the greenhouse gases\u2019 radiative blocking in the lower atmosphere<\/strong>, inhabitants of the earth\u2019s surface do not suffer from runaway heating. Most of the suns heat is transported away from the surface via rising convection currents <\/strong>that carry heat to altitudes where the atmosphere\u2019s density is so reduced, greenhouse gases emit infrared heat that now easily escapes to space. Conversely, all surface heatwaves occur when that convection is suppressed!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ninety-nine percent of our atmosphere is composed of oxygen and nitrogen and argon that are not greenhouse gases. Despite being carried into rarefied air, they cannot radiate away the heat they acquired from contacting the earth\u2019s solar heated surface. If there were no greenhouse gases, there would be no cooling effect<\/strong> and the earth would indeed experience runaway heating. By transferring their heat to CO2 via collisions that happen millions and millions of times each second, CO2 then radiates heat back to outer space maintaining a climate equilibrium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, think critically and be grateful for CO2\u2019s cooling effect<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more details Watch: Global Warming Greenhouse Theory\u2019s Greatest Weakness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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