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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: maceng2 who wrote (22394)7/20/2008 1:20:19 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36917
 
The important point is the ball got hotter and the 2nd law of thermodynamics was not broken. And the ball also does not heat the fire.

CO2 does not heat the earth, CO2 will slow the cooling of the earth by some PPMCO2 times Eavailable per PPMH20 times MANY*Eavailable

MANY*Eavailable is the energy of the far greater number of wavelenghth that it absorbs that include the wavelengths that CO2 absorbs.
Is MANY in the range of 10 to 100.
IS the ratio of just PPMH20 / PPMCO2 in the several hundreds, especially where 80 percent of the sun's energy shines on the earth.

PPMCO2 times Eavailable is small.
PPMH20 times MANY*Eavailable is thousands to tens of thousands.