I have never made a claim that could be construed as "getting free energy". All the energy comes from the sun.
OK. lets take this real slow so that you might be able to get it. Here is the energy budget upon which both the claim of AGW and a greenhouse effect are based.
If all the energy comes from the sun and 166 watts per square meter from the sun is being absorbed by the surface of the earth, how is it that the earth can radiate more than two times that amount of energy (396 watts per square meter) if there is no additional energy being put into the system?
See the yellow ray from the sun? At the top it says incoming solar radiation 341.3. That means, according to the graph 343.1 watts per square meter of energy is coming in from the sun. Now look at the bottom. It says, right there, as clear as can be made that 166 watts per square meter of the incoming radiation from the sun is actually absorbed by the surface of the earth.
Since the sun is the only energy source, and the amount of energy from the sun that is absorbed by the surface of the earth is 166 watts per square meter, the maximum amount of energy that can be radiated by the surface of the earth is 166 watts per square meter and that would be only if the surface of the earth were a perfect reflector and reflecting every bit of energy that it absorbs from the sun. 166 watts per square meter. That is the amount absorbed by the surface of the earth from the only energy source and therefore that is all that is available to be radiated.
Now, look over on the right side of the graphic. 323 is the number and it is labeled back radiation. That means, in case you are confused, that the claim is that 323 watts per square meter is being radiated back to the earth and the graphic clearly states that it is being absorbed by the surface of the earth. Nearly double the amount of energy from the ONLY energy source is being reflected back to the surface of the earth and according the graph, allowing the earth to radiate 396 watts per square meter. 396 watts per square meter is more than double the amount of energy that is coming in from the sun.
If you aren't claiming free energy, how does a surface that absorbs 166 watts per square meter from its ONLY energy source manage to radiate more than double that amount? Explain it. Describe what phisical law would allow such a thing and for God's sake, tell me why, if the energy from the sun is being doubled, why we don't simply collect that magical excess and use it to satisfy our energy needs?
The only difference is to what degree GHGs slow the reflection of IR back to space.
Sorry guy, you are off the reservation again and simply making up a senario that makes more sense to you than the actual hypothesis. Look again at the 323 colum with the arrow pointing down labeled back radiation. Look at the bottom of that colum. In clear english, written in easily read contrasting letters, it says "
ABSORBED BY SURFACE".
Tell me konrad, is english a second or perhaps third language for you? What do the words "
ABSORBED BY SURFACE" mean to you? How do you interpet ABSORBED BY SURFACE to mean something other than the energy is being absorbed by the surface?
Then right next to that colum labled 323 is a colum labeled 396 with an arrow pointing up and again, under the colum, in clear contrasting letters, it says surface radiation. Once more, what do the words surface radiation with an arrow pointing up mean to you?
Now, before you forget, look back over on the left and see the yellow bar touching the earth labled 166 and at the bottom of it the words absorbed by surface. Since you don't seem to accept that "ABSORBED BY SURFACE" on the right side of the graphic actually means energy absorbed by the surface, why do you believe that "ABSORBED BY SURFACE" on the left side actually means energy absorbed by the surface? What is the difference. Is there some secret code on the page that tells you that text that reads "ABSORBED BY SURFACE" on the left side of the page means the energy is being absorbed by the surface but on the right side of the page "ABSORBED BY SURFACE" means something else entirely?
Back to the yellow column that says 166. Once again, that is all the energy available because that is all that is being claimed is reaching the surface of the earth from the sun. Now look again at the column marked, again, in clear, easily read contrasting letters "SURFACE RADIATION" with an arrow pointing up into the sky and the number 396 right above the words. That tells me that the graphic is indicating that 396 watts per square meter is being radiated from the surface of the earth back towards the sky.
But wait, only 166 watts per square meter are being absorbed by the surface from the sun. How then, does the surface of the earth, which is by no stretch of the imagination a perfect reflector of the incoming energy manage to radiate 396 watts per square meter when it is only receiving 166 watts per square meter from its
ONLY energy source. Explain that to me konrad. Explain it to me and explain why your hypothesis is not the hypothesis being put forward by the top dogs in the field of climate science?
The rest of your post just seems to be there to confuse rather than elucidate.
Far from trying to confuse, I am describing precisely what the graphic is saying. If I am missing something, by all means elucidate. Describe in detail where I am diverging from what the graphic is saying.
I am sure that being confronted with what climate science is actually saying must be confusing to you becuase, in reality, it makes no sense at all. In fact, it makes so little sense that folks like you and rocks, and many others are making up your own hypotheses and trying to pass them off as actual climate science.
Why can't you argue about I did say and not make up things I didn't? Failure to argue the point in question doesn't help your position, IMO.
Thus far, you have not said anything that makes any sense at all in the context of this graphic which is the energy budget upon which both the hypothesess of AGW and the greenhouse effect are based. The whole point is that you are ignoring what climate science says in favor of your own fabricated greenhouse senario which completely destroys your position. You don't even beleive the hypothesis yourself but politically you must hate industry so you make up your own version which, I suppose, in your own mind makes perfect sense.
Explain yourself.