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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (39977)	5/23/2013 1:36:44 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

"First those winds are horizontal." "The global atmospheric circulation is characterized by air slowly rising in the tropics into the upper atmosphere and sinking at higher latitudes. " Rising... going vertical; sinking... going unvertical "Also at 10 miles, 16 KM 90% of the CO2 in the atmosphere is shielding, or blocking or reflecting the long wave radiation so it ends up in space, not back on the earth." Long wave radiation comes from earth, it is absorbed by CO2, and then radiated in both directions. That's the greenhouse effect. Here's another finding; as the lower atmosphere warms, it is compressing and cooling the upper atmosphere. climatecentral.org

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (39977)	5/23/2013 5:54:40 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

The vast majority of direct solar radiation from the sun to the earth gets all the way to the ground: Direct sunlight has a luminous efficacy of about 93 lumens per watt of radiant flux. Bright sunlight provides illuminance of approximately 100,000 lux or lumens per square meter at the Earth's surface. The total amount of energy received at ground level from the sun at the zenith is 1004 watts per square meter, which is composed of 527 watts of infrared radiation, 445 watts of visible light, and 32 watts of ultraviolet radiation. At the top of the atmosphere sunlight is about 30% more intense, with more than three times the fraction of ultraviolet (UV), with most of the extra UV consisting of biologically-damaging shortwave ultraviolet. [3] [4] [5] en.wikipedia.org About 1366 watts/sq meter srikes the upper atmosphere and more than 1000 watts/sq meter gets to the ground. The atmosphere absorbs most of the remainder. en.wikipedia.org