Re: Global Warming - It NEVER Happened Before

On Mar 2, 1:39 pm, ls1m...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 1, 7:05 pm, fredfigh...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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The law of conservation of energy is far from conjecture.

How, exactly, does that apply?

If the energy absorbed by a body, plus the energy
produced internally, equals the amount of energy
lost by that body, the temperature of that body remains
constant. Otherwise, it changes.

okaaaaaaaaaay... what does that tell us about the causes or the widely
predicted cataclysmic effects of global warming?

Have you never heard this explained before?

Basicaly, certain gases block IR radiation from the
surface to space better than others. Water vapor,
carbon dioxide and methane among them.

Of those, Water vapor readily condenses and evaporates
so its concentration in the atmosphere is driven by
temperature gradients. So it is the others that 'force'
the green house effect up or down. Water responds
to that forcing and amplifies the effect.

So, if the concentration of greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere increases, the temperature will
increase until the Earth again is radiating as much
heat as is absorbed from the sun and produced
by radioactive decay and tidal friction.

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FF


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