It is absolutely true that net heat flow is is always from a warmer location to a cooler location.
It is also absolutely true that in order to maintain a constant flow of heat, an increase in temperature at the colder location has to be accompanied by an increase in temperature at the warmer location.
People who conflate the two principals are an embarrassment to skeptics. Don’t do that.
The 85 degree temperatures are unbearable. How I long for the bitter cold of Maryland.
Climate scientists blame the high temperatures on Venus on the greenhouse effect.
Given that Venus surface receives very little sunlight, and that nights there are months long with no drop in temperature, it is absurd to compare the Venusian climate to a greenhouse.
Venus has a similar lapse rate to Earth, despite a very different atmospheric composition. This shows that the lapse rate is due to the pressure gradient, not the atmospheric composition.
Climate experts say that a wavy jet stream and harsh winters are caused by global warming.
There’s growing evidence that global warming is driving crazy winters
There’s growing evidence that global warming is driving crazy winters – The Washington Post
Forty years ago, climate experts used the same picture to prove global cooling.
More recently, the IPCC said “mild winter temperatures will reduce heavy snowstorms”
Just in case you forgot for a minute that climate experts have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.
Some readers have determined that insulators can not increase the temperature of an object. So I guess they can wrap their automobile engine in thick fiberglass insulation, and expect that nothing bad will happen.
Fascinating science.
If you put your thumb over the end of the hose, the pressure at all points behind your thumb increases. Yet the water continues to flow the same direction. How can that possibly be?
ROFL
I am being bombarded with longwave radiation emitted by high concentrations of greenhouse gas H2O, and it feels great. Much better than the cold, dry air of Maryland last night.
Here are the rules :
Therefore, if the temperature of the cooler object increases – the only way to maintain the condition of rule 1 is for the temperature of warmer object to also increase.
People are making the mistake of not understanding the difference between heat and temperature. The diffusive heat flow between a 30 degree location and a 20 degree location is the same as the diffusive heat flow between a 70 degree location and a 60 degree location.
BTW – I used to model heat flow for a living. Feel free to make a fool of yourself though.
If an object is emitting heat, placing an insulator around it necessarily has to increase the temperature of the source. In order to dissipate heat as the edge of the insulator warms, the heat source also has to warm.
Heat flow is driven by differences in temperature. The insulator does not change the direction of the heat flow, but it does increase the temperature.
It is called an insulator.
You are cold – you put a jacket on – you get warmer. Everyone knows this.
You get hypothermia, your core temperature drops to 97 degrees. You put on a space blanket, your core temperature increases to 98.6 degrees.
There is a principle that heat always flows from warmer objects to cooler objects, which is sometimes abused by skeptics in a mindless attempt to debunk a theory which is inconvenient for them to believe. A cooler object most certainly can increase the temperature of a warmer heat source.
Scientists need to understand the difference between temperature and heat.
