Real Climate
OCTOBER 1, 2022
He made some rather strange claims, such as that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) allegedly should have forgotten that the earth is a sphere because “ most absorption of solar radiation takes place over the tropics, while there is excess emission of longwave radiation to space over higher latitudes ”. Benestad, D.
Real Climate
JULY 10, 2022
However, that was written in 2007 – 15 years ago! This means that there is an upward surface flux of IR around (~398 W/m 2 ), while the outward flux at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) is roughly equivalent to the net solar radiation absorbed (~240 W/m 2 ). The only question is how much total energy is blocked by each.
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Real Climate
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The only region of cooling is the northern Atlantic, where climate models have long predicted just that due to a slowing of the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. The heating of the global ocean has been going on at a steady rate of nine zeta Joules per year for decades , which is 15 times the worldwide primary energy consumption.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007. See for instance Benestad (2016).
Physics World
OCTOBER 30, 2021
The correlation had been shown in a paper by an author outside the conventional scientific community, so, for good measure, Simpson added that a non-expert could not properly appreciate how atmospheric circulation affects the absorption of radiation. Indeed, Callendar’s scientific development was greatly influenced by his father.
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
Sea level rise within the Pacific has already surpassed the 2007 estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and further predictions infer a further 2m increase within the century. [1] Greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide are great absorbers of heat radiation coming from the Earth’s surface. should be. [4]
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
That is long enough to see that there has been a noticeable trend in the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI), mostly driven by a reduction in the solar radiation reflected by the planet, while the outgoing long wave radiation does not appear to contribute much. A paper last year (Goode et al., Similarly, Loeb et al.
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