Dang, has Al Gore's read this?

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Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics

Authors: Gerhard Gerlich, Ralf D. Tscheuschner

(Submitted on 8 Jul 2007 (v1), last revised 11 Sep 2007 (this version, v3))

Abstract: The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation. In this paper the popular conjecture is analyzed and the underlying physical principles are clarified. By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, ( there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, © the frequently mentioned difference of 33 degrees Celsius is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1161

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[japantiger 4,051]

Of course he hasn't read it...don't confuse him with the facts...

No observations, can't be explained in a common sense fashion, ignores things like the effect of clouds on surface temperature, etc...this is religion, not science...