Posted on 08/19/2009 8:18:27 PM PDT by sourcery
In a study sure to ruffle the feathers of the Global Warming cabal, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a paper which proves that IPCC models are overstating by 6 times, the relevance of CO2 in Earth’s Atmosphere. Dr. Lindzen has found that heat is radiated out in to space at a far higher rate than any modeling system to date can account for.
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It does both, convection (warm air rising) and longwave radiation which is what you are describing.
“The warm Earth radiates in all directions, but the little of the radiation that heads outward to space gets reabsorbed by the atmosphere before it escapes.”
Not according to the study using latest satellite-based data conducted by the learned MIT professor.
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