re: #10 mkelly

And while we are at it. Someone who can sit and write vitriol for paragraphs about someone not being a respectable physicist over a temperature conversion, when they themselves can’t do the simple algebra to get it correct, ought to take a less haughty tone when discussing science points which are actually a bit more complicated.

The arrogance of deniers always bothers me.

Let’s look at this line from your last post.

By the way how is your cognitive dissonnace doing. How anyone can believe that all atmospheric gases dissipate heat and at the same time believe one gas can add more than it dissipates is beyond me.

OK this is not th first time you have demonstrated that you do not understand the concept of insulation. The only cognitive dissonance there is belongs to your confused mind.

Let’s break this down. The Earth ultimately cools through radiation. That is that energy leaves the system as photons. This concept is key to understanding Wein’s Law by the way. If you are going to quote that, you should get this.

The point here is that light, which would have radiated out to space - and hence cooled the Earth is getting trapped and sent back down to Earth by GHGs. This alters the flow out compared to the flow in. That cases warming.

So I have dealt with your moronic comments for many of posts mr kelly. It is time for you to stop going through denier blogs and wikis with half of a grade school understanding of the physics, and for you to start learning basics.

The basics that are relevant here are:

1. Energy is conserved.

2. If you have more energy coming in as opposed to going out, energy accumulates. This is a direct result of 1.

3. The case at hand here is light energy coming in from the sun and that energy not being able to leave the Earth because of GHGs at the rate it would otherwise. This causes heating.

Number three is something you have personally experienced every time you have put on a coat. The mechanisms are different however the point is the same. Without a coat, you are cooled at a different rate than when you are wearing a coat. As such, you feel warm.

What would happen if you put on a coat during a summer heat wave?

I really do not want to hear any more drivel from you until you can understand these very basic concepts. Attempting to obfuscate the issue with misunderstood references to QM that you do just simply do not comprehend will not help you. You also have no chance of understanding physics like that until you wrap your feeble head around the grade school stuff.