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There is no such thing as a greenhouse gas. Greenhouses build up heat because the glass prevents convection. If you made a car with windows transparent to infr
by Daniel_Newby 17y ago
There is no such thing as a greenhouse gas. Greenhouses build up heat because the glass prevents convection. If you made a car with windows transparent to infrared light, a toddler locked inside would still bake to death on a summer day.
If water and CO2 were actually greenhouse gases, it would be almost as hot outdoors on a humid day as inside a sealed greenhouse. It is vastly cooler outdoors because parcels of the air rise as they become hot, transporting heat towards outer space much faster than radiation can. As the surface becomes hotter, natural convection speeds up, transporting heat somewhat faster.
In all the dispute over AGW, I have not seen a single discussion of the relationship between surface temperature and convective heat transport. Until I see solid data from detailed meteorological micro-simulations, I will continue to treat the AGW hypotheses as unproven. Show us the steepness of your surface temperature-convective heat power curves!