What can one say? Another great essay from one of Substack's most lyrical writers. But it is not eloquence for eloquence's sake. It is an eloquence tempered with scientific analysis. Dispair and joy and sober reckoning. Not unlike Lewis Thomas in fact.... I purchased Lives of a Cell hardbound when it first came out and must say it provided so many insights that I still take energy from..a book both informative and transformative.
Amazing, just the other day, before this post, somehow somewhere from the ether it occurred to me that I had never read The Medusa and the Snail. (We must be channeling one another through the interwebs or the great unknown.) In that book, I now have yet another thing to look forward to (like every one of your posts)!
Great reflection on appreciating air and weather, Jason. I used a fragment of that wonderful Lewis Thomas quotation about affection for the atmosphere as a chapter-opening quote in my 1992 book, "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast." You can see the visual of that page here:
Regarding the curated note about population pressure, the fact is, we are consuming the Earth. Whether it is by converting forest to farmland or pasture or by degrading the environment to mine minerals for electronics or sweeping up all the krill in the Antarctic to feed livestock to feed us, we are quite literally "eating up" the biosphere that supports us. If this continues (as it surely will), a great reckoning is inevitable.
What can one say? Another great essay from one of Substack's most lyrical writers. But it is not eloquence for eloquence's sake. It is an eloquence tempered with scientific analysis. Dispair and joy and sober reckoning. Not unlike Lewis Thomas in fact.... I purchased Lives of a Cell hardbound when it first came out and must say it provided so many insights that I still take energy from..a book both informative and transformative.
Amazing, just the other day, before this post, somehow somewhere from the ether it occurred to me that I had never read The Medusa and the Snail. (We must be channeling one another through the interwebs or the great unknown.) In that book, I now have yet another thing to look forward to (like every one of your posts)!
Great reflection on appreciating air and weather, Jason. I used a fragment of that wonderful Lewis Thomas quotation about affection for the atmosphere as a chapter-opening quote in my 1992 book, "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast." You can see the visual of that page here:
Beautiful, Jason. Lewis Thomas blew my mind with Lives of a Cell. You carry on the tradition.
Regarding the curated note about population pressure, the fact is, we are consuming the Earth. Whether it is by converting forest to farmland or pasture or by degrading the environment to mine minerals for electronics or sweeping up all the krill in the Antarctic to feed livestock to feed us, we are quite literally "eating up" the biosphere that supports us. If this continues (as it surely will), a great reckoning is inevitable.
Earth is cooler with the atmosphere, water vapor, 30% albedo not warmer.
Ubiquitous GHE heat balance graphics use bad math& badder physics.
The kinetic heat transfer modes of the contiguous atmospheric molecules render the “extra” GHE LWIR energy of a BB surface impossible.
Consensus science has a well documented history of being wrong & abusing those who dared to challenge it.
GHE & CAGW are wrong so alarmists resort to fear mongering, lies, lawsuits, censorship & violence.
288 K w GHE – 255 K wo GHE = 33 C cooler, -18 C, Earth.
Just flat wrong.
YouTube: Greenhouse Effect Theory Goes Kerbluey
GHE balance calculated 396 up/333 “back”/2nd net 63 unreal perpetual “extra” energy loop.
Just flat wrong.
YouTube: Atmospheric Heat Balances That Don't
Earth radiating 396 W/m^2 LWIR as a 16 C BB.
Just flat wrong.
Search: “Bruges group kerbluey”
GHE
Just flat wrong.
CAGW
Just flat wrong.
More albedo and the Earth cools.
Less albedo and the Earth warms.
No albedo and the Earth becomes much like the Moon, barren, i.e. no water, 400 K lit side, 100 K dark.
Geoengineers know this, why don’t they also admit it violates the frozen ice ball of GHE theory?
MONEY??!!
“TFK_bams09”
Average solar constant of 1,364 W/m^2 arrives at the top of the atmosphere.
Divide by 4 to average this discular area over a spherical area.
(Sphere of r has 4 times the area as a disc of r. This is Fourier’s model which even Pierrehumbert says is no good.)
1,364/4=341
Apply 30% albedo.
341*.7=238.7 (239)
Deduct 78 absorbed in atmosphere.
Net/net of 161 arrives at surface.
Per LoT 1 161 is ALL!! that can leave.
0.9 ground + 17 sensible + 80 latent + 1st 63 LWIR (by remaining difference) and balance is closed!!!!
(1st 63 LWIR is MIA??? Where did it go?? Did TFK palm it like a magic act??)
Where does this extra 396 upwelling come from??
It is the theoretical LWIR from a S-B BB calculation at 16 C, 289 K, that fills the denominator of the emissivity ratio, i.e. 63/396=0.16.
It is not real, it is “extra”, it violates LoT 1.
The 396 upwelling “measurement”/333 “back” cold to warm/a 2nd 63 LWIR GHE loop violates LoT 1 & 2.
Remove the 396/333/63 GHE loop from the graphic and the balance still holds.
Those who claim to measure 400 +/- W/m^2 upwelling from the surface are applying an incorrect emissivity.
This graphic and all of its clones are trash.
The kinetic heat transfer processes of the contiguous atmospheric molecules render a surface BB impossible.
Energy leaving any thermal system = Conduction + Convection + Advection (wind) + Latent (water condensation and evaporation) + Radiation = 100 %
63/(17+80+63) = 0.16
A BB only exists in a vacuum as I demonstrate by experiment.
There is no GHE and no CO2 driven CAGW.