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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: maceng2 who wrote (22361)7/20/2008 12:21:53 AM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
You are attempting to parse a difference that does not exists. net heat flow is defined as the sum of all components making up the tranfer. It can be the conduction of heat, the convection of heat or the heat transferred by radiation. What is pointed out is that you cannot parse out the the heat transfer by radiation and then separate it into vectors in some net energy flow.

This is the G and T explanation, 3.9.3 A paradox
Rahmstorf's reference to the second law of thermodynamics is plainly wrong. The second law is a statement about heat, not about energy. Furthermore the author introduces an obscure notion of "net energy flow". The relevant quantity is the "net heat flow", which, of course, is the sum of the upward and the downward heat flow within a fixed system, here the atmospheric system. It is inadmissible to apply the second law for the upward and downward heat separately redefining the thermodynamic system on the fly.

It is obvious to me. I see no error. I believe the German scientists are stating the physics correctly. But some have little regard for what German scientists know about radiation, relativity and rocket science and such.

After all Einstein and Von Braun were Americans. American scientist developed the A-bomb not the Germans. LOL...
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