Sure, it’s got no internal heat source, and it won’t add any heat energy that you didn’t already have, but you sure feel cold without one. It’s a bit like saying a blanket doesn’t warm you in bed. Technically, strictly, greenhouse gases don’t “warm” the planet (as in, they don’t supply additional heat energy), but they slow the cooling, which for all pragmatic purposes leaves the planet warmer that it would have been without them.

But some heat is going the other way, every day, everywhere, bar possibly a black hole. There are more coming from the 11☌ block to the 10☌ block, sure, but the the 10☌ block is sending ’em back to the 11☌ block too. The photons go both ways (actually every way, in 3D). If heat never flows from cooler blocks to warmer blocks, all those photons have to go “right“, and not ever go “left”, because they “know” that way is towards a cooler block? (How would they?!) Think about what happens to the photons coming off the atoms in the middle of the medium temperature block between the other two. Imagine three blocks of metal side by side. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics applies to net flows of heat, not to each individual photon, and it does not prevent some heat flowing from a cooler body to a warm one. This is generating many comments, see below for an update!īehind the scenes some skeptics are suggesting that CO2 can’t warm us because the atmosphere is colder than the planet, and it would break the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (see Postma*, for example, p 6 – 7). Get Laughs, Get Attention, Get Your Message Across.The Wong Fielding Meeting on Global Warming - Documents.Odour reduction practices at Narrogin Beef Producers.Western Australian State Government email list.Australian Elected Representatives – Emails and phones.

Thermometer selection (mystery loss of data).

The 800 year lag in CO2 after temperature – graphed.

ClimateGate: Thirty Years in the Making (Edition 1.1).

The evidence that AGW fans need to provide.

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