Hello all, before I go off to Shabbos, I simply must share some more wingnut crazy. This was posted in the links by a Lizard, and it really really needs to be shown off.

I just want to go down the list of stupid here a little.

The link is for your denialist needs:

robertsteely.blogtownhall.com

climatebasics.com

Supposedly, the surface of the earth gives off its energy as 41% radiation and the rest as conduction and evaporation. 41% is about how much radiation an incandescent light bulb gives off at 3,000C, not what a cold basement gives off at 15C. A fraudulent Stephan-Boltzmann constant rationalizes the over-emission of radiation.

It’s not everyday that I see something quite this stupid or anti-science. The bit about the Earth not giving off its heat by radiation is particularly stupid. Since space is a vacuum, and the Earth is in space, the only way the Earth loses heat is through radiation. Convection and conduction require a medium to carry heat.

But the bit about a fraudulent Stephan -Boltzmann constant is particularly insane. Yes 130 years ago, those two men were starting a conspiracy of statistical mechanics in order to “falsely” promote AGW…

This is followed by:

Carbon dioxide cannot absorb radiation which comes from the sun, because it is too high in frequency. Objects as hot as the sun cannot give off low frequency radiation in the infrared range, which carbon dioxide absorbs.

Uhhh…huhh…

OK so get this straight, he is claiming that the sun gives off no IR or lower wavelength light. It’s not exactly hard to look at the sun and measure the IR it gives off.

Here is the total power received from the sun:

ngdc.noaa.gov

Here is the frequency breakdown:

rredc.nrel.gov

Notice that the graph peaks in the visible and all that IR stuff to the right.

Radio waves are even longer wavelength than IR - by orders of magnitude. Look at the following picture:

Image: Radio_Telescope_Jodrell_Bank_Observatory_Lovell.jpg

Kinda stupid to build radio telescopes if the stuff in space doesn’t give off that kind of light…

Claiming that a large amount of infrared radiation leaves the surface of the earth is so obviously false that it cannot be anything but deliberate fraud. There are too many sources of evidence to get such a misrepresentation through error without fraud.

Uhh huh - because energy is no longer conserved?

So in summary, we have the most intensely stupid of the stupid here.

I invite anyone to look at these links just to see how train-wreck dumb it is.

The issue of course is that this is of course the kind of crap that the denialist propaganda machine has taught these fools.