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William Winner wrote:
Where he got:"The theory of GH gass warming states that the cold periods and regions will be affected more than the warm." bewilders me or that the troposphere would have to warm substantially for it to be greenhouse gases.
OK, now down to the facts. Greenhouse gases trap heat within the surface-troposphere system, causing heating at the surface of the planet [^] So, since the surface doesnt contain any CO2, it is the troposphere that traps the heat. This heat is then radiated towards the surface. A radiator has to be hotter then the receiver of the heat, otherwise the heat would flow the other way. This is why the troposphere has to be HOTTER than the surface. As fopr polar warmihg, here is a snippet from Nature, quoted here many climate models indicate that the Polar regions should serve as bellwethers for any global warming trend, responding first and most rapidly to an increase in temperatures[^] Thats BOTH polar regions, not one. Its GH gass theory 101. I am surprised, since you have studied 'environmental science', that you dont know this. I would have thought basic GH gas theory would have been part of you sylabus.
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fat_boy wrote:
Greenhouse gases trap heat within the surface-troposphere system, causing heating at the surface of the planet [^]
Did you know that that information came from the IPCC which you so clearly despise? Here's a graph of daily mean tropospheric temperatures[^]. When we talk climatic warming, we're not talking about tens of degrees, we're talking fractions of a degree. Oh, and by your reasoning that the radiator has to be hotter than the heat it's transmitting, then by that graph, the troposphere is around -8 degrees Fahrenheit, so it can't possibly be radiating heat back. Once again, you've shown us a clear misunderstanding of the greenhouse effect.
fat_boy wrote:
As fopr polar warmihg, here is a snippet from Nature, quoted here many climate models indicate that the Polar regions should serve as bellwethers for any global warming trend, responding first and most rapidly to an increase in temperatures[^]
Yeah, follow that quote. That quote doesn't come from Nature. That quote comes from "scienceagogo.com". Nature did not say that "many climate models..." scienceagogo.com did. So, here's the original article from 2002: Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response[^] And here is a second article published last year: Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year[^] A true researcher doesn't just find whatever article he can on the internet and take it as truth. You will find a lot of biased opinions at www.climategate.com. You need to actually research what they're saying and where it's coming from. They took a quote from another site and claimed it came from a reputable scientific magazine. Well done climategate.com!
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No, this was a response, my debate is in the other post. Argue with that if yuo can.
William Winner wrote:
From Wikipedia again: "Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems[1]."
So its an unfocused load of sentimental crap aimed at tree huggers. Yeah, thought os.
William Winner wrote:
EnvSci is concerned with how everything interacts with everything else on a local, regional, ecosystem, and world scale.
Oh, how cosy! What a drivvelsone description. It just reeks of sentimentalism.
William Winner wrote:
And scientific testing does not involve sticking your head out a window and saying, "Hmm...it feels the same today as it did 20 years ago!"
No, not since you lot came along with your rose tinted simplistic agenda. Now you create a computer model built to prove a theory, run it for a few days and call the theory proved. You stopped looking at the real world decades ago. Maybee YOU should stick your head out the window rather than up your arse, you might get a better perspective on whats going on.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
You've really made my day! Thanks! Who knew that I would start the day smiling because of someone showing me just how little they really know. So much fun.
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No, this was a response, my debate is in the other post. Argue with that if yuo can.
William Winner wrote:
From Wikipedia again: "Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems[1]."
So its an unfocused load of sentimental crap aimed at tree huggers. Yeah, thought os.
William Winner wrote:
EnvSci is concerned with how everything interacts with everything else on a local, regional, ecosystem, and world scale.
Oh, how cosy! What a drivvelsone description. It just reeks of sentimentalism.
William Winner wrote:
And scientific testing does not involve sticking your head out a window and saying, "Hmm...it feels the same today as it did 20 years ago!"
No, not since you lot came along with your rose tinted simplistic agenda. Now you create a computer model built to prove a theory, run it for a few days and call the theory proved. You stopped looking at the real world decades ago. Maybee YOU should stick your head out the window rather than up your arse, you might get a better perspective on whats going on.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
fat_boy wrote:
So its an unfocused load of sentimental crap aimed at tree huggers.
fat_boy wrote:
Oh, how cosy! What a drivvelsone description. It just reeks of sentimentalism.
You know the moment you stop attacking the arguments and start attacking the person we all know that you realize you lost and won't be able to beat his arguments so you have to resort to cheap shots, right?
fat_boy wrote:
you might get a better perspective on whats going on.
Who has a better perspective, the guy who is arguing to check sources, learned to study the environment on a scale that makes sense when dealing with it, or the guy attributing quotes to papers that never made the quotes because his favorite website told him to? You know, CSS would be proud of you.
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No, this was a response, my debate is in the other post. Argue with that if yuo can.
William Winner wrote:
From Wikipedia again: "Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems[1]."
So its an unfocused load of sentimental crap aimed at tree huggers. Yeah, thought os.
William Winner wrote:
EnvSci is concerned with how everything interacts with everything else on a local, regional, ecosystem, and world scale.
Oh, how cosy! What a drivvelsone description. It just reeks of sentimentalism.
William Winner wrote:
And scientific testing does not involve sticking your head out a window and saying, "Hmm...it feels the same today as it did 20 years ago!"
No, not since you lot came along with your rose tinted simplistic agenda. Now you create a computer model built to prove a theory, run it for a few days and call the theory proved. You stopped looking at the real world decades ago. Maybee YOU should stick your head out the window rather than up your arse, you might get a better perspective on whats going on.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
Hear that whistling sound? That's your credibility plummeting into an abyss. Remember what happened to the guys at the CRU? You just did something similar.
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ragnaroknrol wrote:
Yea, and everywhere I read these studies on the effects of CO2 on plants involve anti-GW websites.
Yes, you will see a lot. But you an also find it on government websites, gardeners websites, even canabis growers websites. CO2 enrichment has been used for a long time in greenhouses (and no, thiose work differently to the greenhouse effect before you start drawing silly comparisons).
ragnaroknrol wrote:
And crop yields don't need extra CO2.
No? How about feeding people.
ragnaroknrol wrote:
since less fertilizer would be needed
Could less fertilizer be used if CO2 was higher? I havent seen any studies on this, but its an interesting possibility.
ragnaroknrol wrote:
But you'll ignore this answer because it means changing habits and heaven forbid we have to do that...
No, not so. I am genuinely interested in the future of mans ability to feed himself and the world. I just dont think that issues like overpopulation and food supply should be confused with global warming.
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Hold up a second. You have been throwing around some numbers about how we have increased CO2 in the air already. You also say it helps crops. But why hasn't this been evident all over the place then? If us dumping that much CO2 has not had any real impact on the environment, then how could it help crops? What, it selectively helps plants but doesn't do anything else? What levels of CO2 are we talking about? And has anyone bothered looking to see how much that level will change things? You can't have your cake and eat it too, this is pretty much a universal truth. If this stuff does one thing positively, I want to see what the side-effects are.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
To complicate it more, we have these short-term cycles on top of the big ice age cycle... Cycles inside cycles... And out of all this, we're trying to measure how much effect we've had in only the past 100-130 years. Not so simple.
Yes, this sums it up pretty well. If you lok even further back, over the last 10,000 years at the ice core data you can see a gradual decline in temperature. And we dont know why. Yet we are content, aparently, to worry about a 30 year trend showing a slight increase. That, I dont get. Yes, good link. Here is a snippet "One suprise may be that the earth receives almost twice as much heat from the atmosphere as it does from the sun. But the sun only shines on a given point on the earth half the time, while the atmosphere radiates continuously" I would want to see a measurement of the heat received from the sun at the top of atmosphere to make sense of this because no where does the second respondant list LongWave radiation from the sun as an atmosphere gain. From earth yes, but not from the sun. And the sun produces more of it. This is the bit I think is missing in all the calculations regarding GW.
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fat_boy wrote:
I would want to see a measurement of the heat received from the sun at the top of atmosphere to make sense of this because no where does the second respondant list LongWave radiation from the sun as an atmosphere gain. From earth yes, but not from the sun. And the sun produces more of it.
I think you might be incorrect on that point. I knew something didn't seem right about your numbers... From my understanding, and the info I've found, most of the radiation from the sun is in the form of visible light and UV, not infrared. "The sun, which is very hot, emits high energy, shortwave radiation, while the earth, which is much cooler, emits lower energy, long wave radiation." http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/PlanetEarthScience/GlobalWarming/GW_Movie1.php#[^] Hence most of the heat coming from the sun is in the form of visible light and UV, which passes right through most of the greenhouse gases, for the most part. The heat remitted by the earth is more in the infrared range, so is absorbed by the atmosphere (Note the previous link saying that only 4.1% of the heat from the earth goes directly out into space).
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You've really made my day! Thanks! Who knew that I would start the day smiling because of someone showing me just how little they really know. So much fun.
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fat_boy wrote:
So its an unfocused load of sentimental crap aimed at tree huggers.
fat_boy wrote:
Oh, how cosy! What a drivvelsone description. It just reeks of sentimentalism.
You know the moment you stop attacking the arguments and start attacking the person we all know that you realize you lost and won't be able to beat his arguments so you have to resort to cheap shots, right?
fat_boy wrote:
you might get a better perspective on whats going on.
Who has a better perspective, the guy who is arguing to check sources, learned to study the environment on a scale that makes sense when dealing with it, or the guy attributing quotes to papers that never made the quotes because his favorite website told him to? You know, CSS would be proud of you.
ragnaroknrol / jumpingonthebandwagon programmer wrote:
You know the moment you stop attacking the arguments and start attacking the person
This little minithread was entirely personal. The arguments are in the other one.
ragnaroknrol / jumpingonthebandwagon programmer wrote:
Who has a better perspective, the guy who is arguing to check sources, learned to study the environment on a scale that makes sense when dealing with it, or the guy attributing quotes to papers that never made the quotes because his favorite website told him to?
Hey, if you havent realised, GW has fallen apart. Even the ex Climate chief, now labled a criminial for breaching FoI laws, states the recent warming is stastically indifferent to the previous three warmign cycles in the last century and a half. And as for the IPCC, there have been so many errors found in its 4th AR it is now a joke and even IPCC members are calling for Pachuri to resign. You think I dont have perspective? You are living in the past my friend.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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Hear that whistling sound? That's your credibility plummeting into an abyss. Remember what happened to the guys at the CRU? You just did something similar.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Oh go on, surely you can appreciate a bit of banter!
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
Banter? You're insulting a guy who very likely knows more about this issue than all of the rest of us put together. If you're really interested in discussing the issue instead of just advocating one side of it, then you should be welcoming his input.
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fat_boy wrote:
Greenhouse gases trap heat within the surface-troposphere system, causing heating at the surface of the planet [^]
Did you know that that information came from the IPCC which you so clearly despise? Here's a graph of daily mean tropospheric temperatures[^]. When we talk climatic warming, we're not talking about tens of degrees, we're talking fractions of a degree. Oh, and by your reasoning that the radiator has to be hotter than the heat it's transmitting, then by that graph, the troposphere is around -8 degrees Fahrenheit, so it can't possibly be radiating heat back. Once again, you've shown us a clear misunderstanding of the greenhouse effect.
fat_boy wrote:
As fopr polar warmihg, here is a snippet from Nature, quoted here many climate models indicate that the Polar regions should serve as bellwethers for any global warming trend, responding first and most rapidly to an increase in temperatures[^]
Yeah, follow that quote. That quote doesn't come from Nature. That quote comes from "scienceagogo.com". Nature did not say that "many climate models..." scienceagogo.com did. So, here's the original article from 2002: Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response[^] And here is a second article published last year: Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year[^] A true researcher doesn't just find whatever article he can on the internet and take it as truth. You will find a lot of biased opinions at www.climategate.com. You need to actually research what they're saying and where it's coming from. They took a quote from another site and claimed it came from a reputable scientific magazine. Well done climategate.com!
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ragnaroknrol / jumpingonthebandwagon programmer wrote:
You know the moment you stop attacking the arguments and start attacking the person
This little minithread was entirely personal. The arguments are in the other one.
ragnaroknrol / jumpingonthebandwagon programmer wrote:
Who has a better perspective, the guy who is arguing to check sources, learned to study the environment on a scale that makes sense when dealing with it, or the guy attributing quotes to papers that never made the quotes because his favorite website told him to?
Hey, if you havent realised, GW has fallen apart. Even the ex Climate chief, now labled a criminial for breaching FoI laws, states the recent warming is stastically indifferent to the previous three warmign cycles in the last century and a half. And as for the IPCC, there have been so many errors found in its 4th AR it is now a joke and even IPCC members are calling for Pachuri to resign. You think I dont have perspective? You are living in the past my friend.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
This happens a lot with conservatives. They attack something, put some little dig in with crap science or something stupid like "Al Gore said it would never snow again thanks to Global Warming. HE LIED!!!" and then expect everyone to believe them. Aside from website cherry picking quotes, misrepresenting quotes or just plain attacking everything because they don't believe it, I am not seeing much out there saying it. And don't call me your friend. Edit: Oh and before I forget. I don't care if it was for "banter". Banter does not consist of personal attacks in response to someone puting their credentials out there. This was not "banter" it was you realizing you aren't going to come close to winning a rational argument with a guy that knows more about the subject than you do so you called him a tree hugger. It was an attempt to demean his expertise to prop up your argument. Have the integrity to at least admit when you are an ass.
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Banter? You're insulting a guy who very likely knows more about this issue than all of the rest of us put together. If you're really interested in discussing the issue instead of just advocating one side of it, then you should be welcoming his input.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)He's not interested in that. He's sure he is right and rather than admit he is not as much of an expert as he claims or as well informed, he's going to attack the character, not the message.
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fat_boy wrote:
I would want to see a measurement of the heat received from the sun at the top of atmosphere to make sense of this because no where does the second respondant list LongWave radiation from the sun as an atmosphere gain. From earth yes, but not from the sun. And the sun produces more of it.
I think you might be incorrect on that point. I knew something didn't seem right about your numbers... From my understanding, and the info I've found, most of the radiation from the sun is in the form of visible light and UV, not infrared. "The sun, which is very hot, emits high energy, shortwave radiation, while the earth, which is much cooler, emits lower energy, long wave radiation." http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/PlanetEarthScience/GlobalWarming/GW_Movie1.php#[^] Hence most of the heat coming from the sun is in the form of visible light and UV, which passes right through most of the greenhouse gases, for the most part. The heat remitted by the earth is more in the infrared range, so is absorbed by the atmosphere (Note the previous link saying that only 4.1% of the heat from the earth goes directly out into space).
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
most of the radiation from the sun is in the form of visible light and UV, not infrared.
True. But that doesnt mean it emmits less IR than the earth, it just means the greater part of a bodies radiatin curve moves towards the visble as it gets hotter. Look at the radiation curves for black bodies at various temperatures. You will see what I mean. I found an online Plank law calcularor. You can enter the temperature of th eblack body, the wavelength range, and calculate the energy produced. If you do the same you will see what I mean. You can also use the heating up a poece of steel analogy I told you about earlier. The skin is a good IR sensor. As steel heats up it feels hotter and hotter, eventually starting to glow red at about 600`C. You can FEEL the increase in heat coming off it as it heats up. All in the IR. Check out what I say here, its true, and I think quite important.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
most of the radiation from the sun is in the form of visible light and UV, not infrared.
True. But that doesnt mean it emmits less IR than the earth, it just means the greater part of a bodies radiatin curve moves towards the visble as it gets hotter. Look at the radiation curves for black bodies at various temperatures. You will see what I mean. I found an online Plank law calcularor. You can enter the temperature of th eblack body, the wavelength range, and calculate the energy produced. If you do the same you will see what I mean. You can also use the heating up a poece of steel analogy I told you about earlier. The skin is a good IR sensor. As steel heats up it feels hotter and hotter, eventually starting to glow red at about 600`C. You can FEEL the increase in heat coming off it as it heats up. All in the IR. Check out what I say here, its true, and I think quite important.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
Here's a nice chart... http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/images/RadiationSpectrumEmittedFromSun.html[^] The curve on the left is the radiation coming in from the sun, mostly in the visible and near-infrared range. Light, not heat. The curve on the right is what the earth is sending back out, notably WAY over in the infrared spectrum. For reference, this chart[^] from Wikipedia shows just the sun's incoming radiation, along with where infrared starts. Note that most of the absorption is actually from water vapor, but we're discussing CO2 here... CO2's absorption is centered on a relatively narrow band way over in the far-infrared range... Not much comes in from the sun at this wavelength, but a significant amount radiated by the earth. So basically, most of the radiation from the sun comes right in, while a lot of the radiation from the earth is trapped by the atmosphere. That's the greenhouse effect, and that's why more CO2 heats us up instead of cooling us down.
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This happens a lot with conservatives. They attack something, put some little dig in with crap science or something stupid like "Al Gore said it would never snow again thanks to Global Warming. HE LIED!!!" and then expect everyone to believe them. Aside from website cherry picking quotes, misrepresenting quotes or just plain attacking everything because they don't believe it, I am not seeing much out there saying it. And don't call me your friend. Edit: Oh and before I forget. I don't care if it was for "banter". Banter does not consist of personal attacks in response to someone puting their credentials out there. This was not "banter" it was you realizing you aren't going to come close to winning a rational argument with a guy that knows more about the subject than you do so you called him a tree hugger. It was an attempt to demean his expertise to prop up your argument. Have the integrity to at least admit when you are an ass.
I can see you are a firm AGW belilever and will not be shaken. You will interpret everything I write according you your belief and will not look ay one sinlge link I provide to back up my claims. You do not want to be aware that the ex Clmate chief, Phil Jones called the recent warming 'stastically insignificant1 and that there has been no significanty warming since 1995 and that the scientific debate is far from over. That Bob Waton of DEFRA states that there is no way to explain the recent warming and therefore it must be due to man made CO2. You do not want to know that GISS and NCDC use 90% less stations today to prepare their data sets than they did in 1980 depite GW being spposedly the most important issue in the history of mankind. You do not watn to know that the IPCC has used non peer reviewed worl for its 4th AR and intentionally lied about glacier shrinkage in order to gain attention, and thus funding in exactly the samer way the UN did with aids. You will ignore all this and continue to insult me because it runs counter to your belief system. You needent bother to respond to this, I am not going to discuss GW with someone so intentionaly blinkered.
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Banter? You're insulting a guy who very likely knows more about this issue than all of the rest of us put together. If you're really interested in discussing the issue instead of just advocating one side of it, then you should be welcoming his input.
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)OK, maybee my response was bit strong, but it anouys the heck out of me when peoplel say 'I am quallified and therefore everythign you say is wrong'. Its so arrogant, and wrong. There is every reason why anyone can make a study of GW and on looking at the evidence decide for themselves. Hey, its not like the climate system is understood anyway, so even the 'experts' dont know a lot more than the rest of us. And, and for me this is the kicker, his qualificaiton is in Environmental Science. Tell me, I wonder if this course has a slight vias? Also, since it is to do with biology and ecosystems I wonder just how much meterology there is in it, which is why I asked him. Of course he stated it isnt necessary to study weather to uunderstand climate. You think he is an expert? I think is credibility is suspect. Very suspect. The fat ge doest even understamd the basics of GW teory says as much. Tell me, how can the troposphere HEAT the earths surface if it isnt HOTTER? And as for the cold periods and regions warming the most this is commin knowledge and I proved it by linkuing to a quote from Nature. Although pur so called expert looked at the site the quote as on and stated that it wasnt from Nature so he didnt even bother to look before attacking me and accusing me of lying. Anyway, back to black bodies on your other post.
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Here's a nice chart... http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/images/RadiationSpectrumEmittedFromSun.html[^] The curve on the left is the radiation coming in from the sun, mostly in the visible and near-infrared range. Light, not heat. The curve on the right is what the earth is sending back out, notably WAY over in the infrared spectrum. For reference, this chart[^] from Wikipedia shows just the sun's incoming radiation, along with where infrared starts. Note that most of the absorption is actually from water vapor, but we're discussing CO2 here... CO2's absorption is centered on a relatively narrow band way over in the far-infrared range... Not much comes in from the sun at this wavelength, but a significant amount radiated by the earth. So basically, most of the radiation from the sun comes right in, while a lot of the radiation from the earth is trapped by the atmosphere. That's the greenhouse effect, and that's why more CO2 heats us up instead of cooling us down.
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Now I am betting before even looking at the graph you linked to that it is the one with an arbitrary y axis scale... Yep. Bingo. If the y axis scale was set then this graph implies te earth emmits the same energy as the sun. Its a qualitative rather than a quantitative representation, commonly used, but misleading. For graphs with a y axis look at this form wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blackbody-lg.png[^] And another link from wiki that shows the solar radiation at top of atmosphere and at sea level. You can see the energy absorbed by GH gasses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Spectrum.png[^] Oh, and really do check out Planks law. Here is a calculator I found: http://www.fing.edu.uy/if/mirror/TEST/testhome/javaapplets/planckRadiation/blackbody.html[^] Here are the absobtion bands for CO2 to use in the calculation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_absorption[^] This link includes another graph showing the solar energy at TOA and at the surface also showing energy absorbed by CO2. So you can now calculate the difference in energy absorbed by CO2 emmitted by the earth and by the sun. --edit-- Oh, and by the way, I studied Planks law at college as part of thermodynamics. I wont claim to be an expert in GW though, unlike the guy with the Environmental Science degree.
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Hold up a second. You have been throwing around some numbers about how we have increased CO2 in the air already. You also say it helps crops. But why hasn't this been evident all over the place then? If us dumping that much CO2 has not had any real impact on the environment, then how could it help crops? What, it selectively helps plants but doesn't do anything else? What levels of CO2 are we talking about? And has anyone bothered looking to see how much that level will change things? You can't have your cake and eat it too, this is pretty much a universal truth. If this stuff does one thing positively, I want to see what the side-effects are.
ragnaroknrol wrote:
But why hasn't this been evident all over the place then?
Here is some evidence. For more than 20 years forest ecologist Geoffrey Parker has tracked the growth of 55 stands of mixed hardwood forest plots in Maryland. The plots range in size, and some are as large as 2 acres. Parker's research is based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, 26 miles east of the nation's capital. Parker's tree censuses have revealed that the forest is packing on weight at a much faster rate than expected. He and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute postdoctoral fellow Sean McMahon discovered that, on average, the forest is growing an additional 2 tons per acre annually. That is the equivalent of a tree with a diameter of 2 feet sprouting up over a year. [^] As for crops, perhaps the effect has been hidden by the increase in use of fertilizers. After all, global crop yields have gone up by a huge amount since the 50's. However, and I have already told you this, CO2 has been used in greenhouses for a long time in order to increase crop yields.
ragnaroknrol wrote:
If us dumping that much CO2 has not had any real impact on the environment, then how could it help crops?
Go back and read again what I have written. You will see that I state that there is evidence of increased plant growth.
ragnaroknrol wrote:
What, it selectively helps plants but doesn't do anything else?
Is that so surprising to you?
ragnaroknrol wrote:
What levels of CO2 are we talking about?
Well, the Canadian government talks about 1300 ppm as an optimum for plant growth. I am talking about curent CO2 levels, so thats 380 ppm, abd the effect they have already had on forest growth.
ragnaroknrol wrote:
And has anyone bothered looking to see how much that level will change things?
Yes. Many studies have ben done.
ragnaroknrol wrote:
You can't have your cake and eat it too, this is pretty much a universal truth
What, like f=ma, or s = u
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Ah such well-founded debate. Thank you for that...gave me a little chuckle this morning! Did I say anything about how you make your money? Umm...no...I was talking about educational background. As in, what is your formal training in? And you're question about how much "meteorology" have I studied shows just how little you understand what "environmental science" is or this debate. Meteorology is the study of weather. From Wikipedia: "Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting (in contrast with climatology)." Note the "in contrast with climatology". We're talking climate not weather. And, you can bet that anyone with an environmental anything degree has had the basics of the greenhouse effect and the effects of greenhouse gases on the atmosphere. From Wikipedia again: "Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems[1]." EnvSci is concerned with how everything interacts with everything else on a local, regional, ecosystem, and world scale. And, yeah, I'm "trained" to "test" theories using scientific techniques. But to begin to "test" a theory, you first have to understand it, which you clearly do not. And scientific testing does not involve sticking your head out a window and saying, "Hmm...it feels the same today as it did 20 years ago!"
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Ohm and by the way I studied black body radiation and Planks law as part of thermodynamics so, according to your criteria that makes me an expert on GW theory. In fact more of an expert than an environmentalist I would say.
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