Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
My argument was that earth LW IR warms the atmosphere, and you agreed and added a non sequitur about conduction.I agree that conduction is the primary means of energy movement through the atmosphere...and that being the case, a radiative greenhouse effect as described by climate science is not possible
IR does not warm the atmosphere...IR is energy moving away from its source at the speed of light... That glaring problem with your belief is not a non sequitur..it is the glaring error in the hypothesis...
we would have a planet like Venus which radiates 16,549 W/m². (Have you figured out what happens to that radiation yet?) The earth would not be that hot of course.
No..you would have nothing like venus...the atmosphere on venus is 90 times more dense than our own...
I have always been able to explain the radiation...and am perfectly ready to do so when you are able to state in plain english what the equation I gave you says...and hell, I even did more than half of it for you...all you had to do was speak in plain english, a simple subtraction problem..and you can't do it...
When you do, I will be happy to provide you with an explanation for the apparent discrepancy in energy on venus complete with testable, workable formulas to explain...not that you would be able to grasp those formulas either since you can't even state in plain english what a simple subtraction problem says...
IR does not warm the atmosphere...IR is energy moving away from its source at the speed of light...
Until it gets absorbed by a GHG molecule.
I guess increasing emissivity actually slowed down the "speed of light escape" of IR, eh?