On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:24:52 -0400, Whata Fool wrote:

David wrote:

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:58:38 -0400, Whata Fool wrote:
Apparently it has been, but only not fully considered as
possibly causing cooling.

http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/20...mosphere.shtml

http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?titl...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

CO2 has been specified as the cooling agent of the atmosphere,
but apparently the AGW premise is that it warms the surface.

http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/a...kinin-fox.html

The surface is only warmed by sunlight and by the heat
retaining molecules of N2 and O2, any downward longwave
radiation is instantly radiated upward by broadband by the
surface.
How AGW claims of CO2 causing warming is difficult
to understand. The ability of the surface to radiate infrared
as quickly as it is absorbed does not seem to be consistent
with the premise that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and CO2 as
only a cooling agent is consistent with the high Diurnal Temperature
Range on clear nights with dry air.

How can theory get turned upside down, could temperatures
actually be warmer if there was no carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

It just kills you don't it? Give up. Learn to swim.

I don't know of any place where the water is warm enough
to suit me now, but I learned to swim in a creek in 1934.

Time for all the enlightened to learn a new script, back
to the global cooling, as CO2 concentrations go up, the atmosphere
has to get cooler.


You must be old or something. What abouth methane?