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To: HPilot who wrote (21620)	5/16/2008 8:35:10 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

By the way, for any who wish to read or have access to a fantastic book on all issues of radiation cooling, radiation budget, how the satellites work and use different wavebands to measure different properties and and and... W. Paul Menzel. Remote Sensing Applications with Meteorological Satellites. 243 pages.... 7+meg Available free for download from WMO... Dear Mr Watson, In reply to your web query dated 14 May 2008, please find hereafter the link you need to download the above publication: wmo.int Thank you for your interest in WMO publications and best regards, The heat does vanish. And the total for all that activity may only be a microsecond or nanosecond of sunshine. All heat is radiating off of the planet. All heat generated by fossil fuels is just former solar energy that had been sequestered eons ago that is now released to radiate into space. The cooling of the earth is caused by radiation from earth and all different levels of the atmosphere. But a large percentage of the heat radiated from higher levels in the atmosphere get to that height by convection and not from radiation from below. The more one creates higher thermal gradients that in air means higher density gradients, the faster and larger convection currents are created that transport warm air and moist air to higher levels where is can radiate heat into space. The ignorance on what is really going on is such that the following supposition is supported by as much science as the CO2 warming supposition. CO2 and all the sources you name may have a minor net cooling effect by pumping energy into convection conveyors. Anyone who has studied insulating buildings knows that a convection current in a wall can act as a short circuit and bypass all the R-value of insulations.