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A smooth surface aborbs less sunlight than a rough one because more light is reflected.
It takes relatively little energy to disturb a smooth surface.If the sea becomes more turbulent because of a changing wind direction or wind speed does the sea heat up more by absorbing more sunlight.And similarly if the ionosphere is made more turbulent by solar radiation does it absorb more or less energy.Does the atmosphere below the ionosphere become hotter or colder? I ask because it seems to me that the recent (recent in geological timescales) cycle of ice ages and interglacials never used to exist.Something - a unique event - caused the cycle to start.And the Earth's temperature has been rising after each glacial closer to a maximum which corresponds with the temperature just before the glacial-interglacial cycle started.
Since chemical reactions in the atmosphere of the Earth don't take tens of thousands of years to restore an equilibrium,a long term process must be at work.And the sun has to be the prime supsect because it being a star evolves and passes through a series of unique one-off stages.Also events such as El Nino (which has occurred over thousands of years) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation seem to be increasing in intensity but not dependent on the total global temperature for their existence.So does the current trend in global warming merely reflect some process in the Sun that is gradually returning to equilibrium after the initial perturbation at the start of the first glacial period tens of thousands of years ago.If turbulence in the ionosphere is a major factor in solar radiation absorption then the sun's output of radiation would have to vary very little - just a small extra input of some particles into the Earth's upper atmosphere to cause turbulence and a large change in the overall absorption of solar energy.
It takes relatively little energy to disturb a smooth surface.If the sea becomes more turbulent because of a changing wind direction or wind speed does the sea heat up more by absorbing more sunlight.And similarly if the ionosphere is made more turbulent by solar radiation does it absorb more or less energy.Does the atmosphere below the ionosphere become hotter or colder? I ask because it seems to me that the recent (recent in geological timescales) cycle of ice ages and interglacials never used to exist.Something - a unique event - caused the cycle to start.And the Earth's temperature has been rising after each glacial closer to a maximum which corresponds with the temperature just before the glacial-interglacial cycle started.
Since chemical reactions in the atmosphere of the Earth don't take tens of thousands of years to restore an equilibrium,a long term process must be at work.And the sun has to be the prime supsect because it being a star evolves and passes through a series of unique one-off stages.Also events such as El Nino (which has occurred over thousands of years) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation seem to be increasing in intensity but not dependent on the total global temperature for their existence.So does the current trend in global warming merely reflect some process in the Sun that is gradually returning to equilibrium after the initial perturbation at the start of the first glacial period tens of thousands of years ago.If turbulence in the ionosphere is a major factor in solar radiation absorption then the sun's output of radiation would have to vary very little - just a small extra input of some particles into the Earth's upper atmosphere to cause turbulence and a large change in the overall absorption of solar energy.
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