Billy_Bob
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Tell me Todd, If the photon is actually a particle of matter, then the laws governing matter apply, do they not?All Matter radiates at its temperature above 0Kelvin.You have missed the actual GHG hypothesis, it requires a region above the tropical zone, where CO2 and its radiative properties cause an energy loop where water vapor is warmed and held, causing the tropics to warm and forcing energy pole ward, warming the earth. This is the IPCC's "sensitivity" numbers that started at 6-8 deg C/doubling and have now been revised downward to 0.0-0.6 deg C/ Doubling.
This means there should be a lag between energy input and energy output of the globe. This does not exist. The Models FAIL!
Dr Evans looked at it this way;
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There is no hotspot and no climate sensitivity to CO2. There is more cooling in the troposphere which is an indication of a NEGATIVE FORCING not a net positive one when interacting with water vapor.
Below is the ERBE data followed by the top models in use today. You will note their slopes are inconsistent with observed data.
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The models do not reflect reality and according to them should show a hot spot in our troposphere.
Dr. Evans places the GHG hypothesis in a more layman's terms here:-> The Skeptic's Case | David M.W. Evans
This means there should be a lag between energy input and energy output of the globe. This does not exist. The Models FAIL!
That's awful! So does that mean GHGs in the atmosphere don't absorb IR?
Does that mean GHGs in the atmosphere are prevented, in any way, from emitting photons in all
directions, including toward a warmer surface?
Your question is one of semantics. As the properties of LWIR are still in question (wave energy or particle energy) the definition of what it is matters. In a wave it can radiate in all directions but it has no effect on the warmer object due to its wave length rejection/reflection by the warmer object. As a particle it can radiate in all directions but when it collides with warmer matter requires energy from the warmer object to bring it up to its vibration (temperature) level before it can re-emit it, using up energy and cooling the object.
In either case the net result is a cooling object not a warming one.
All Matter radiates at its temperature above 0Kelvin.
Even at equilibrium?
when it collides with warmer matter requires energy from the warmer object to bring it up to its vibration (temperature) level before it can re-emit it, using up energy and cooling the object.
A photon from cooler matter absorbs energy from the warmer matter and after the warmer matter emits a photon it is cooler than it was before the "cooler photon" originally was absorbed?
If the photon is actually a particle of matter
I don't think it is. Do you?
Tell me Todd, If the photon is actually a particle of matter, then the laws governing matter apply, do they not?
What a friggin' idiot you are. Did you ever look up fermions and bosons?
This question has not been answered and the papers you two quote do not make valid assertions by empirical evidence... This is an area that is uncertain and unanswered as there are actions we observe that indicate they are both. IE; a particle within a wave.
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