Dear Hasbeen,

How's it going old cock?

Look mate you have had truckloads of evidence placed in front of you over the years. You normally choose to put up a token fight defending your tainted ideology then scamper off to come back at a later date claiming you have never seen said evidence as you are doing now.

It is an old and frankly boring game much like yourself.

But hell, I'm bored enough to have a play again.

So answer me this question, why do cloudless still nights get much colder that cloudy ones?

"why do cloudless still nights get much colder that cloudy ones?"

Why do CO2 fetishists who really don't understand the science, continually confuse weather and climate?

Dear mhaze,

Read his post then mine and then realise you really need to stop being so clueless.

I did. It doesn't mention clouds. And clouds are water vapour not CO2 which is what the thread is about.

What happens on a cloudless night has nowt to do with climate. Cloudless nights do affect weather but not climate. Hence my post.

What are you suggesting SR.

Could it be that you think all the CO2 goes to bed with the chooks, as soon as the sun goes down?

So as that "warming" CO2 is still up there at night, cloudless or not, perhaps you could explain why it is no longer warming the place.

As mhaze points out those clouds that warm the night are water vapor, not CO2. The difference with cloudy nights is the water vapor is still doing what it does, reduce radiated loss. The difference with cloudless nights, when there is less water vapor to reflect radiation shows just how little effect the CO2 really has. About tuppence worth of stuff all. Double the CO2 & you will have about four-pence worth of stuff all.

Thanks for highlighting that little bit of science. Any more bright ideas to help disprove the false theory of CO2 caused global warming.

Dear Tweedle DumB and Tweedle dumBer,

In a night time scenario this is what happens.

Cloud cover captures infrared radiation emitting from the earth's surface and radiates it in all directions thus raising the surface temperature from what it may have otherwise been without clouds present.

Increased CO2 levels 'captures infrared radiation emitting from the earth's surface and radiates it in all directions thus raising the surface temperature from what it may have otherwise been without' elevated levels of CO2 present

I hope this assists.

Yawn.

Dear Hasbeen,

You initially dismissed CO2's role in global warming saying it may even cause cooling. Now you are saying it causes warming but that warming is only minor. What is your supposed tuppence worth in temperature?