Whenever you started talking about the Atmosphere being "a magical battery warming the rock" it's chilling, your reputation for knowing what you're talking about to me was DONE.
Are you implying that the surface would be warmer (on average) without an atmosphere? Hahaha
Bonus points to anyone who can give the simple mathematical reason why an atmosphere increases the average surface temperature.
I'm looking for an equation. This is the first hit
This absorption and radiation of heat by the atmosphere—the natural greenhouse effect—is beneficial for life on Earth. If there were no greenhouse effect, the Earth’s average surface temperature would be a very chilly -18°C (0°F) instead of the comfortable 15°C (59°F) that it is today.
No. No. LoL No.
When you calculate the temperature of the planet the very first thing you do is determine how much light strikes the surface of the planet.
And the way you do that is by separating the two values of energy at the physical surface or what would be referred to as Mean Sea Level,
and what the value of sunlight energy intensity is at the TOP of the atmosphere.
There is only ONE class gases that affects the amount of sunlight striking the surface, to any real degree at all.
These are the cooling Green House Gases. The cooling green house gases take some 22% of all sunlight energy from the equation for temperature of the planets' surface by being the nearly SOLE gases to DO any of this
initial cooling,
BEFORE
the conduction cooling by those gases starts.
When you SUBTRACT sunlight at surface from sunlight at top of atmsophere
that is the % initial cooling the green house gases cause.
They cause NO warming. Ever. Of any kind whatever. And neither does the atmosphere.
The Atmosphere is a cold nitrogen bath conduction chilling the planet.