RollingThunder
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Actually throwing out well understood physics is a trait of the climatologists there matthew. Let's go with a simple one. AGW theory states that long wave radiation is bounced back down to the Earth and warms it up again. What needs to be warmed for that to work?Which is why we are still here in this thread - to laugh at you retards who have no concept of what the scientific method is.
HEY GOOBER, Science dun beez consensifying... "Settled Science" iz grant takers all agreeing to take grants...
ROFL
You're a complete cretin, but good for a laugh.
What degree's within climate do you have to disrespect the field with? Honestly questioning the stall of global temperature is one thing but throwing out hundreds of years of physics is quite another.
I'll give you a hint it's large and filled with water... that's right it's the oceans. Now, how deep into the oceans can the long wave radiation penetrate to warm them up? Here's another hint....MICRONS.
That's right bucko, your precious global warming weapon can penetrate mere microns into the very ocean it is supposed to warm. See how that works. We KNOW these things and you guys have been ignoring that simple rule of physics for decades.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Scientists understand quite well how that works. You don't, walleyed, in spite of your Dunning-Kruger Effect inspired belief that you are smarter and know more than all of those climate scientists. All you've got are the denier cult myths, misunderstandings and deliberate distortions of the science that you scraped off of some denier cult blog.
The shortwave radiation coming from the sun heats the oceans up to several hundred feet in depth. When the ocean waters are warmer than the air, as they tend to be on average around the planet, they emit some of that heat into the atmosphere as long wave infrared radiation. Some of that heat from the sun is also transferred horizontally or vertically by currents or into the atmosphere by evaporation. There is something that scientists refer to as the 'skin layer', approximately 1mm thick, at the ocean's surface, that is in direct contact with the atmosphere and from which the longwave radiation is emitted. This skin layer controls the ocean to atmosphere (or vice-versa when the air is warmer than the water) heat transfer. Reducing the size of the temperature gradient through the skin layer reduces that flux. Therefore, when downdwelling long wave radiation from the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere strike the ocean surface, while it does only penetrate about one micron, it nevertheless is absorbed by and heats that very thin surface layer and thus reduces the flow of heat from the ocean beneath, causing more of the heat in the upper ocean to remain there to increase water temperatures. Scientists have discovered experimental evidence of this heat transfer mechanism by going out on the oceans and directly measuring the ocean skin temperatures and the upper ocean temperatures.
As usual, your understanding of physics is shallow and incomplete and largely based on the misinformation and pseudo-science that your denier cult blogs pass to you from the propagandists working for the fossil fuel industry.