SSDD
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- Nov 6, 2012
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The quality of the Sun's radiation is such that it could heat the Earth to 5000C if perfectly insulated. Likewise, the atmosphere could heat the Earth to the temperature of the atmosphere but not beyond.
The simplified S-B Law cannot be used to calculate the temperature of the incoming radiation without accounting for the areas radiating and receiving, and the angles.
Using temps in Celsius is misleading, as is ignoring the amount of energy stored to approach equilibrium.
The universities in question identified those graphs as basic descriptions of the mechanism of the greenhouse effect...if you start with bullshit and a thermodynamic impossibility, you can't then create a model complicated enough to make that thermodynamic impossibility reality..