Entirely and completely wrong.
Oceans simply are large thermal masses.
They have NOTHING to do with solar energy coming in or the boundry layer of the upper atmosphere where solar energy goes out.
What controls the amount of solar heat retained by the earth is entirely the composition of the boundry layer of the upper atmosphere.
Carbon converts photonic solar radiation into vibratory heat.
Photonic solar radiation can leave the atmosphere into space.
Vibratory heat can NOT leave the atmosphere into space.
This is simple physics, and Kininmonth either has to be a total moron, or was misquoted.
Here's a great big load of horse shit ... what the hell is with the 19th Century terminology ... "vibratory heat"? ... that's the 20th Century definition of temperature ... oh, and I love the term "photonic solar radiation" ... God, don't want to get that confused with "magic pixie dust solar radiation" ...
Oceans simply are large thermal masses.
Yes, that's exactly what
bripat said ... it takes roughly four times the energy to warm water as it does air ... more like 6 times the energy than carbon dioxide ... these are all published values ... no excuse to not know this, you could have looked it up ... see
Specific Heat Capacity on Wiki ...
They have NOTHING to do with solar energy coming in or the boundry layer of the upper atmosphere where solar energy goes out.
The atmosphere is transparent to visible light from the Sun ... what parts aren't absorbed in the atmosphere must be absorbed by the oceans (71%) and land (29%) ... from here, energy is either re-radiated in the IR band
OR convected through the troposphere (and we can safely ignore conduction) ... what we don't know is how much is being convected, because that part isn't effected by carbon dioxide until the energy is again released in it's radiative form, which could be at this "boundary layer" ... a.k.a. the tropopause, where commercial jets fly ...
Carbon converts photonic solar radiation into vibratory heat.
This is not a causal error ... this shows a profound and deep misunderstanding of the physics involved ... even with the correction of terrestrial radiation, the carbon in the atmosphere only slows down the transfer of energy, it doesn't trap or contain nothing ... there's a link in the thread pinned at the top of this forum that explains in every detail why CO
2 re-emits the energy a half second after it absorbs it ...
If you can manage junior status at your local university, see if they'll let you take astrophysics ... Max Planck changed everything, your ancient knowledge base is way out-dated ... and please, if you must, use "electromagnetic solar radiation" ... but in truth, everybody will know you mean EM radiation, as nuclear radiation plays no part in weather or climate ... "photonic" makes you sound like an idiot ... and we don't want that, now do we? ...
