Comments on: Greenhouse effect equations for the earth are totally wrong http://www.thepropheticyears.com/dddblog/2008/03/10/greenhouse-effect-equations-for-the-earth-are-totally-wrong.html Documents that the world is becoming a demented delusional and dumb place Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Don http://www.thepropheticyears.com/dddblog/2008/03/10/greenhouse-effect-equations-for-the-earth-are-totally-wrong.html#comment-1577 Don Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:28:34 +0000 http://www.thepropheticyears.com/dddblog/2008/03/10/greenhouse-effect-equations-for-the-earth-are-totally-wrong.html#comment-1577 Thanks for your input. If you ever run across his response to the criticisms you bring up I hope you will provide me a link to it. Also, if he makes a retraction let me know. Thanks for your input. If you ever run across his response to the criticisms you bring up I hope you will provide me a link to it. Also, if he makes a retraction let me know.

]]> By: Barton Paul Levenson http://www.thepropheticyears.com/dddblog/2008/03/10/greenhouse-effect-equations-for-the-earth-are-totally-wrong.html#comment-1576 Barton Paul Levenson Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:54:22 +0000 http://www.thepropheticyears.com/dddblog/2008/03/10/greenhouse-effect-equations-for-the-earth-are-totally-wrong.html#comment-1576 Miskolczi's paper was riddled with errors and should have been rejected in peer review. For example, he states that Kirchhoff's Law requires emission to be the same as absorption. That's a freshman mistake. Kirchhoff's Law requires emissivity to be the same as absorptivity. Note, also, that his figure for the Earth's semigray infrared optical thickness -- 1.841 -- is below every other published estimate, and even below the figure you get from writing a simple radiation balance. His contention that feedbacks somehow keep this figure from varying is laughable. If he were correct, there would have been no ice ages, and Venus would have a temperature climate. Miskolczi’s paper was riddled with errors and should have been rejected in peer review. For example, he states that Kirchhoff’s Law requires emission to be the same as absorption. That’s a freshman mistake. Kirchhoff’s Law requires emissivity to be the same as absorptivity.

Note, also, that his figure for the Earth’s semigray infrared optical thickness — 1.841 — is below every other published estimate, and even below the figure you get from writing a simple radiation balance. His contention that feedbacks somehow keep this figure from varying is laughable. If he were correct, there would have been no ice ages, and Venus would have a temperature climate.

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