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Climate change is here despite denial : Comments
By Lyn Bender, published 4/2/2014Seems it never rains in Southern California. But California Dreamin' has become a California Dryin' nightmare and many are praying for the drought to end.
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Relativity is instructive; so even if you accept the so-called AGW science and the forcing, that is energy input into the climate system by anthropogenic CO2 [ACO2] it is dwarfed by natural sources of CO2 and more particularly the energy expended by the phase changes of water.
The relevant references for this are page 263 here:
http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/uploads/media/EE_21-4_paradigm_shift_output_limited_3_Mb.pdf
Equation 3 is the relevant one which says:
dU = CvdT + Ldq + gdh – PdV
This is a rewriting of the First Law of Thermodynamics which both allows for a determination of the relative energy input of the phase changes of water and therein a comparison of the forcing or energy input of a doubling of CO2 as predicted and calculated by AGW theory.
The forcing from 2XACO2 is 3.7 W/m2 over the next 100 years or however long it takes for ACO2 to cause a doubling of atmospheric CO2.
Compared with this the phase changes from water generate energy fluxes from Ldq and PdV that well exceeds 1000 W/m2 each and every day!
A second paper is by Makarieva which is discussed at point 8 here:
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/man-made-global-warming-wrong-ten.html
The role of water has been overlooked in AGW science and I am fascinated that even a basic Modtran analysis clearly shows that back-radiation is dominated by humidity and that any back-radiation from CO2 only occurs when humidity is less than 1%, which happens very rarely on earth:
http://notrickszone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Caryl_11.png
That should be fatal to AGW but no one seems to notice!
And don't be so sensitive James, after all prince Charles isn't calling you a headless chicken.