Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
I just read jc's link. It has a lot of outstanding information, much of which I have already informed jc of. Some of the conclusions inferred from the information is suspect but overall he makes very good points.
Eg. Surface radiation is absorbed to extinction by 10 metres. Adding more CO2 lessens that height. The actual numbers don't matter but the principal does. But he goes on to say that the height doesn't matter because convection stirs the atmosphere. Of course it matters! The same amount of energy absorbed in a smaller volume of air leads to higher temperature near the surface. We are talking about CO2's effect, not the alternate pathways that move the heat higher up.
I have talked dozens of times about the surface bottleneck (and the secondary bottleneck at the cloudtops).
I just read jc's link. It has a lot of outstanding information
I keep getting an error message on his link.
Does your phone do PDFs?
If I can't get it on my PC, I'm reluctant to try on my phone.