Originally posted by Bystander:
This thread has covered a lot of ground and is now able to consider its title. I will put forward an estimate of the scale of the CO2 contribution for others to consider and increase or reduce in scale, based upon Bystander’s emissivity theme. I estimate that...
vanesch writes:
You were again quite informative. I spent some time looking at the Areva site and French post-reactor practices. Areva’s ability to organize yellow cake production has markedly reduced rod use in MOX-plutonium production and its associated potential problems. I understand the...
“Now, about 2/3 of the heat of the reactor is lost in cooling towers because of the steam cycle. So 2/3 of the heat of the reactor goes into evaporating water; the rest of the heat is turned into electricity, which will be turned again into heat at the consumer's place. So we have: - 2/3 of the...
I have been traveling. The reference for 3 billion years I kept was this
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=when-did-eukaryotic-cells&topicID=3 . It ends in an informed speculation. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote gives 2.7 billion years based on shale steranes (2 refs). At least...
The cited thread has my August 1 posting about the nuclear waste problem. It is surrounded by reflex secrecy, hence the numbers are all guesses. Water vapor is clearly the most important greenhouse gas. Things that increase its entry into the atmosphere contribute to global warming by this...
vanesch wrote
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I gave CML as a particular example of a plausible result from 14C, not as a disease conclusively shown to be based on it. I could have spent time identifying other malignancies that were found higher in Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors and whose incidence has been...
I have spent some time looking into the origin of the ICAO table and sense that the lapse rate there is compromised by specific aviation needs http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?showtopic=49857&pid=1341485&st=0&#entry1341485 . cP is appropriate, not 3/2 cP. The NASA approach takes the...
Andrew Mason wrote “So I guess you can explain Venus' surface temperature without reference to CO2 content of its atmosphere.!?‘
Venus has a very hot surface and a complete cloud cover. The atmospheric pressure at its surface is 93 times that of Earth. A 1991 Magellan rocket recorded its...
vanesch has seen no benefit from fossil fuel use in the fall in 14C body radiation from 10,000 to 7,000 disintegrations/sec since 1969. He uses radiation hormesis to make his argument. I looked for 14C experiments to document its hormesis and could find none. Are there any? I will use chronic...
jdlawlis wrote
I noted a second reply and was looking at the NASA dry adiabatic lapse rate citation again in developing a Venus atmosphere analysis. I noticed a feature that deals directly with your problem. The NASA solution started as you did the second time with cV in the first law...
Vanesch wrote
You seem to equate nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide effects with radiation exposure. Do you have any evidence to support your position. I live in an area where all electricity is generated from coal. No-one here knows of such a relationship. If you are right we need to abandon...
Before moving to other topics, this thread touched on CO2 level effects on human physiology with little recognition of the ability of closed environments to raise CO2 levels when large numbers of humans or animals raise CO2 by their breathing.
Consider a thousand people attending a function...
You were kind to point out a defect in the Miskolczi model that I gather interferes with his virial theorem claim. I made another criticism of his and most other radiation balance models and hope that you will comment on it. https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=261966
I noted your...
I assume that GMST stands for global mean surface temperature. I encourage you to
be thoughtful about volcanic elements in your model. The term aerosol has been introduced to represent both solid and liquid bodies suspended in the atmosphere. Silicates dispersed by volcanic activity are the...
I pointed out the deficiencies of GENLN2 and HARTCODE in handling atmospheric emissivity. The most influential model over time has been the GISS model. I set out to look at it in the same way. It is older, more complex, and multi-tasked than the first two. Its design is targeted at climate...