If the CO2 is being toasted by a warmer source like the surface -- by definition it's accumulating thermal energy.. It's getting warmer. Couldn't get warmer if Long Wave IR was "just passing thru a door"..
And it's NOT a door -- it's IR emission (RE-radiation) pattern is in ALL DIRECTIONS.. Meaning that about 1/2 of the IR goes up and a little less than 1/2 goes back to the surface..
You're missing out on the basics of ElectroMag Heat propagation.. There is a conversion IMMEDIATELY as it is absorbed to raw heat energy.. Whether that heat sticks around or ends up funding the flight of ANOTHER EM photon --- depends on thermal gradients, the rate of absorption/emission, and the temperature of the CO2 molecule..
No need to reply and assert that photons aren't launched in every direction.. You have a comical view that the CO2 molecule measures the thermal gradient in all directions and then constructs a "launch list" of only cooler potential targets. You will assert that NO PHOTONS ever get launched toward warmer objects.. But you'd STILL ---- be wrong.. :eusa_angel:
Underlined the parts you got wrong... Oh I see... This is awkward, I underlined all of it...
Oh well....
The problem is you assume all energy in the system is used to create heat. Not so...You are using the modern "climate science" version of energy automatically being converted into heat.
Sorry but it's just wrong. It's a simplistric view taught to people who don't want to be physicists or engineers, but rather something like a "climate scientist" or somebody who wants to fight the AGW fight but not be a scientist...
The fact is not all the energy coming is converted to heat. Some of it lost in the transfer, some of it used in the system making the transfer, and all the particulars that go along with it.
So in reality, we aren't looking at 50/50 down and up. We aren't even looking at 50% in either direction. In each stage of energy transfer, we lose the ability use some small part of that energy in that process or the making of.
Further, no one, and let's be very clear, NO ONE, has stated any such thing as you claimed in this statement..
"You have a comical view that the CO2 molecule measures the thermal gradient in all directions and then constructs a "launch list" of only cooler potential targets."
That is a retarded and ignorant claim used by the warmers to divert, and the fact you are trying it again, after I spent pages clarifying, shows it's intentional now...
I say it again.. Why do you assume that heat radiated to warmer from a colder will result in the warmer object warming further? I have asked you and the warmers, and Ian that and every time I do you respond with either ignoring it, or posting that lie you just tried...
The fact is you don't understand it. Ian doesn't, and certainly none of the warmers do.. Just because something radiates, does not mean it can effect change in it's source... And the sad part is you just said one reason why and you didn't even realize you did it...
WHen you claimed that bit about thermal heat gradient, you explained one small way the system prevents reusing the same energy to dothe same task. The molecule doesn't measure it and decide toradiate or not in any one direction. It doesn't have to, the fact is you said yourself that
"depends on thermal gradients, the rate of absorption/emission, and the temperature of the CO2 molecule.." Catching on yet?
How can it depend on thermal gradients,the rate of absorption/emission and the temperature, and ignore it at the same time? It can't and you just showed it, thank you...
I am telling you once more to think this through for yourself.. Don't take someone else's word for it, especially not mine. And certainly not somebody who makes a living off of it being correct. This entire theory, relies on a belief in something that cannot be shown anywhere but in theory. The math states a possibility, but it is limited by our understanding of it. A mathematical possibility is not a physical certainty, if for no other reason than our own ignorance..