Here is a recent Daily Kos article where the journalist pretends he understands radiative transfer and the motivations of scientists.
Daily Sceptic’s CO2 Saturation Argument Is Just As False Now As It Was In 1900
Hansen predicted a mid-troposphere “hot spot” – which is at the core of global warming theory. The mid-troposphere is supposed to warm much faster than the lower troposphere, because there is less water vapor there.
https://doi.org/10.2172/5885458
The opposite has occurred. The mid-troposphere has been warming less than the lower troposphere.
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excess energy ??? no such thing … since ALL of the energy the sun hits us with leaves the atmosphere … insulation can’t increase the temp of your space heater … it just slows down the loss …
We are dealing with idiots who do not know the difference between energy and power. When the theory predicts the irradiance at the surface is 47% greater than that supplied by the Sun, we can be sure it is utter rubbish. The CO2 saturation argument is a complete red herring.
Kirchoff’s Law applies -every picowatt absorbed by an atmospheric layer is re-radiated, so that at equilibrium there can be no net increase in irradiance due to the greenhouse gas. Molecules of CO2 do not have a sense of direction by which they can preferentially radiate downwards. The greenhouse effect has passed from lecturer’s blackboard to students notes for the past forty years, without ever passing through the brain of either.
It is in the same category as the phlogiston theory of heat, spontaneous creation, the belief that there were four elements, and all the other nonsense which was the consensus among educated people in the past.
Operation Mockingbird is 100% real
and at the same time a conspiracy theory.
This real life Schroedingers cat exists as result of propaganda by the very same institutions that are being controlled by the CiA and the term conspiracy theorist that has been weaponised by the CiA in the 60ies, to ridicule those who point out the ever increasing level of controle,manipulation and globalization and the endless wars based on lies.
Coming SOON: A Mann-made MTM hotspot;-{
The two graphs appear as if there was a step function increase about 1998 or so, which seems very odd to me. I was under the impression that land based temperatures have been pretty much in the same temperature range over the last 140 years. The slope of the mean about 0, or slightly negative, and the standard deviations also remaining about the same. You could draw three level lines and pretty much describe the measured temperature:one for the under boundary, one for the lower, and the mean.
So the troposphere having this step function is odd. Intuitively, I would expect it to remain the same as well. One wonders just how much data they have to support that, and if it has been tampered with as well.
upper not under, wish we could edit after we post.