Former NASA Climatologist explains

FlySurfer said...



Awesome...
Net In: 240w sqm
Net Out: 240w sqm

The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions. Since part of this re-radiation is back towards the surface, energy is transferred to the surface and the lower atmosphere. As a result, the temperature there is higher than it would be if direct heating by solar radiation were the only warming mechanism.[1][2]

Solar radiation at the high frequencies of visible light passes through the atmosphere to warm the planetary surface, which then emits this energy at the lower frequencies of infrared thermal radiation. Infrared radiation is absorbed by greenhouse gases, which in turn re-radiate much of the energy to the surface and lower atmosphere. The mechanism is named after the effect of solar radiation passing through glass and warming a greenhouse, but the way it retains heat is fundamentally different as a greenhouse works by reducing airflow, isolating the warm air inside the structure so that heat is not lost by convection.[2][3][4]
The greenhouse effect was discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1824, first reliably experimented on by John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.[5]

If an ideal thermally conductive blackbody was the same distance from the Sun as the Earth is, it would have a temperature of about 5.3 °C. However, since the Earth reflects about 30%[6] (or 28%[7]) of the incoming sunlight, the planet's effective temperature (the temperature of a blackbody that would emit the same amount of radiation) is about −18 or −19 °C,[9] about 33°C below the actual surface temperature of about 14 °C or 15 °C.[10] The mechanism that produces this difference between the actual surface temperature and the effective temperature is due to the atmosphere and is known as the greenhouse effect.

Trant said...

You at least understand the principals involved now? And yes, that diagram shows an Earth in equilibrium, well done.

As for what can it do, I only need to point to Venus. 462 degrees C on the surface there, all thanks to a runaway greenhouse effect.
Carbon started it off, then the water evaporated causing water vapour (a worse greenhouse effect), now it's pretty much f*cked.

Yes, we also should look at other problems too, but this is also a real issue and can't be ignored.

FlySurfer said...

This tax will steal billions of man hours from the people.
It will go to fund the UN (indirectly).

They tried to sneak it in globally before, now the tactic is to sneak it in country buy country and then unite the schemes under central control in the near future.

As Australians we live very well, and the plan is to change that, by deception.

FlySurfer said...
... where's the gatoraid?

FlySurfer said...
Awesome...
Net In: 240w sqm
Net Out: 240w sqm

CO2 concentration: 0.039%

How much energy can it absorb?
What effect does it have on warming?

Now take a solar panel.
How much energy can it absorb?
What effect does it have on warming?

Now take a human.
How much energy can does it generate (Morpheus says 25000 BTU's)?
What effect do we have on warming?

Do you see where I'm going with this?
You're being distracted by BS that isn't EVER gona have any effect on the temperature.

We have way more important things to worry about that CO2. Like destruction of the rain forest, deforestation, chemical pollution, complete break down of the aquatic ecosystem...

Ban plastic.
Ban dumping in the ocean.

CO2 tax is a bureaucratic power grab with no possible benefit to our nation or the planet.