He won`t, that "conspiracy theory" spiel is mamooth`s standard last ditch defense. The rest of them, (like Abe the 3.rd etc.) seek shelter in their 97% "skepticalscience.org" consensus bunker....while we get nuked with 4 Hiroshima bombs per second
Gee it makes you wonder how the "average global temperature" stayed down all that time before we upped it by 0.8 deg with an extra 120 ppm CO2.
If it`s been "on average" staying at 287 K before we started burning oil then I wonder how the earth got rid of the 1000 watts "average solar" watts/m^2 in order to remain at an equilibrium.
Stefan Boltzmann says:
P (w/m^2) = σ * A * ε * T^4
Even though at the top of the atmosphere we get close to ε=1, P could have been no more than 385 watts/m^2 when we had 280 ppm CO2
So how did the earth radiate off the other 615 w/m^2 ?
It`s reflected without being converted into heat. There is something wrong with the "average albedo" these models use.
And with that albedo we still come up short, by 315 watts.
Unless the overall albedo was ~ 0.6 it must have been hot enough for quite some time somewhere else where Mr.Mann could not find any hockey stick trees.
....Ice has an albedo high enough (.5 to .7) to reflect the other 615 w/m^2...but that would mean that we`ve been warming up from an ice age, like we "deniers" have been saying all along.
Or perhaps those 315 w/m^2 also went into hiding deep down in the oceans like it`s doing now?
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