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To: FJB who wrote (68088)	1/23/2016 5:45:14 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 86352

I downloaded the full PDF. I saved as TheGreenhouseEffectandtheInfraredRadiativeStructureoftheEarthsAtmosphere.DES111.pdf It is in agwn.homeip.net agwn.homeip.net TheGreenhouseEffectandtheInfraredRadiativeStructureoftheEarthsAtmosphere.DES111.pdf I expect it will take me some time to digest it all. But the conclusions do agree with my understanding of how it really works. From page 49 in the Conclusions section. Of course the whole dynamically controlled system has no real instantaneous equilibrium state. However, the radial (or mass) oscillation of the system will be able to handle the energy conservation and energy minimum principles as required by the time constants of the different latent heat reservoirs. In summary, the complex task of the relatively fast responding global mean cloud cover is to assure the conservation of radiant energy and momentum on a global scale, maximize the LW cooling to space (radiative equilibrium), while observing the thermodynamic constraints applicable to large heterogeneous systems (Maxwell rule). The quantitative proof of the radiative equilibrium state of the Earth-atmosphere system is alone a remarkable achievement of planetary science. The proposition here is to consider the global average cloud cover as the only component of the climate system, which is able to respond to and regulate the planetary radiation budget in a relatively short time. The greenhouse effect of the Earth's atmosphere is a global scale equilibrium process which rests on the chaotic nature of the humidity field and the stability of the total atmospheric mass. Consequently, none of any local or regional weather phenomenon is related directly to its magnitude and tendency. Unfortunately the Nobel Laureate IPCC is not a scientific authority, and their claim of the consensus and the settled greenhouse science is meaningless. The quantitative results of this paper massively contradict the CO2 greenhouse effect based AGW hypothesis of IPCC/ In our view the greenhouse phenomenon, as it was postulated by J. Fourier (1824), estimated by S. Arrhenius (1906), first quantified by S. Manabe and R. Wetherald (1967), explained by R. Lindzen (2007), and endorsed by the National Academy of Science and the Royal Society (2014), simple does not exist. However, research must continue to find and establish the real causes and the true trends in global temperature change that may be present behind the natural fluctuations. The greenhouse science is not settled, the presented results warrant further efforts to investigate many detailes of the surface radiative equilibrium processes.