They had a tough day in court. I wonder if any administration has lost as many court cases as this one?
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They had a tough day in court. I wonder if any administration has lost as many court cases as this one?
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Repeat after me: There is no Greenhouse, what makes the Earth warmer than the equilibrium radiative temperature is compression heating.
This is the same explanation for meteors — it is not the friction, it is compression heating from the shockwave, and this is the underlying principle behind blunt-body reentry vehicles.
The atmosphere is largely opaque at ground level only thins out enough to reach radiative equilibrium at the bottom of the “flight levels.”
What CO2 does is it raises the altitude where the atmosphere becomes transparent, (slightly) warming the surface through, you guessed it, increased compression heating.
Everyone who knows anything about the physics of planetary atmospheres knows this. Now the concern is that a small change in temperature caused by CO2 is amplified by the feedback mechanisms to create concern for the later part of the 21st Century if we keep pumping out Gases that Raise the Altitude of Radiative Equibilibrium and Warms the Surface by Compression Heating But is Mistakenly Called a Greenhouse.
Repeat after me: There is no Greenhouse, what makes the Earth warmer than the equilibrium radiative temperature is compression heating.
I strongly disagree. If that were true, then there’d be no difference in temperature between day and night, for example.
Don’t stop him, he’s on a roll
Yes, this administration has been, more frequently than any other, slapped down by courts for its usurpation of power. The Bush admin had a very bad record in this regard, but the current admin is far worse.
This is why the Democrats used the “nuclear option’ in the senate to kill the filibuster of judges; if they pack the federal courts, the courts will no longer be a barrier to fascist-style power grabs, such as trying to use the EPA to do an end-run around congress to implement carbon caps (the Democrats couldn’t even get that through congress when they had absolute control). Oh, and to anyone who thinks they won’t use the ‘nuclear option’ if it’s a supreme court justice being confirmed, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn that you’ll probably be interested in buying.
@Paul. One minor quibble/clarification; while compression is the far greater source of re-entry heating, friction does cause some of it.