In this "experiment," the candle would represent "the surface of the earth,"
and the camera would be deep space.
no , the experiment is exactly as I described it.
of course it would help if your computer would allow you
to watch the video.
It's no wonder you've been going on about the blocking
of incoming (short-wave, near-IR) heat from the sun
...as "evidence" that CO2 works differently
than over 100 years of study has demonstrated!
also , its not that I have been saying that CO2
works differently , because I have been saying that CO2
does absorb IR , what I am saying is that over 1/2 of the
heat from the sun is IR and a proportionate amount
of that heat is blocked by the CO2 in the atmosphere and
that proportion of heat never reaches the earths surface.
Remember "back radiation" (also known as the 'greenhouse effect')
the IR heat that is blocked would normally be
absorbed and re-emitted from the surface to the atmosphere
if it were not blocked at the atmosphere , so since the proportion of IR heat is blocked its pretty clear that
since that heat never reaches the surface then it
also never gets re-emitted by the surface in order to
provide the "back radiation" therefore a proportion of
the "back radiation" will also be decreased.
the missing surface heat equates into the outgoing
heat also being decreased , doesn't that make sense to
you?
the incoming IR heat that is trapped by the CO2 will decrease
the final total of the heat that the earth absorbs of the initial total of incoming heat from the sun.
as is depicted at the bottom of your image as ( net absorbed 0.9 W/m^2).
in the above image , do you see the cloud in the center
of the picture?
to your left of that cloud as your looking at it
you will see the number 78 , that number 78 represents
the amount of incoming solar radiation that is absorbed by the atmosphere.
if you follow that dark yellow band downwards until it
reaches the surface you will see the number 161 , that
number represents the amount of incoming solar radiation that the earths surface absorbs (it says absorbed by surface)
that number is 161 because 341 is the initial number that
represents the incoming solar radiation and there are several
numbers that are subtracted from the number 341.
if the number 78 beside the cloud increases because more
and more of the incoming solar radiation is absorbed by the
atmosphere due to increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere
then the number 161 will decrease.
if the number 161 decreases then the
number 396 ( surface radiation) also decreases.
decreasing the number 333 ( back radiation )
