tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post9148373805896244184..comments2024-03-11T04:54:26.827-07:00Comments on THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New book 'The Sixth Extinction' recycles alarm on ocean 'acidification' & global warmingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post-79830346513066919012014-03-06T06:40:15.039-08:002014-03-06T06:40:15.039-08:00Civilization subconsciously believes that we are h...Civilization subconsciously believes that we are here for a short time. That rough part comes when we realize all of our goals and accomplishments were misaligned.Insite Internationalhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/144231163/ocean-ph-reportnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post-91716026159900548642014-02-15T19:53:00.705-08:002014-02-15T19:53:00.705-08:00The greenhouse radiative forcing conjecture starts...The greenhouse radiative forcing conjecture starts with an assumption that there would be isothermal conditions in a troposphere that was free of radiating (so-called "greenhouse") gases, including water vapour, or free of direct solar radiation.<br /><br />There are similar conditions in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#Troposphere" rel="nofollow">Uranus troposphere</a> where there is very little methane except in a layer in the uppermost regions. Virtually all the very weak solar radiation reaching the planet (nearly 30 times the distance from the Sun that Earth is) is absorbed and re-emitted back to space by this methane layer where the temperature is a very cold 60K or so, that being the radiating temperature of the planet. There is no internal energy generation that can be convincingly detected, yet the core is at about 5,000K and the base of the troposphere (where there is no surface being heated by any direct Solar radiation) is hotter than Earth's surface.<br /><br />The existence of isothermal conditions would be in violation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics" rel="nofollow">Second Law of Thermodynamics</a> which says that a state of maximum entropy will evolve spontaneously. Such as state is isentropic, and so the sum of molecular kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy for each molecular has a propensity to be equal at all altitudes. This means that there is a temperature gradient, because temperature depends upon the mean kinetic energy, not the gravitational potential energy. <br /><br />If there were isothermal conditions (an impossibility) then what is the sensitivity for each 1% of water vapour in the atmosphere above any region? Perhaps you would say something like at least 10 degrees of warming. Hence you would say in a dry desert (with say 0.5% water vapour) the warming would be 5 degrees, but in a rain forest with 4.5% water vapour it might be 45 degrees, making the rainforest 40 degrees hotter than the dry desert. <br /><br /><b>Need I say more about this ludicrous travesty of physics?</b><br />Doug Cottonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08564342660783793003noreply@blogger.com