curve follows the annual temperature changes (blue) at an average interval of 11 months (Humlum et al., 2013, https://tinyurl.com/y77nqj8y). For large temperature changes, it takes correspondingly longer. Antarctic ice cores show that at the end of the last ice age, the temperature rise occurred 150 to 200 years before the rise in carbon dioxide that escaped from the heated oceans, like a bottle of Coke sitting in the sun (Pedro et al., 2012, https://tinyurl.com/y4c5mrjn).
16. The inversion weather situation is a result of lack of convection When convection (vertical air exchange) occurs, air temperature decreases with altitude, by 6-7 °C/km for moist air and by 910 °C/km for dry air. When convection is interrupted, the air near the ground may cool considerably due to infrared emissions and an inverted temperature gradient, an inversion, occurs. In Antarctica, there is an almost permanent temperature inversion in winter (April to September), with temperatures at 150 m about 20 °C above those at ground level. The graph shows measured temperatures in Antarctica for one year for the height range from 5 m to 205 m. Above about 200 m, the temperature drops at just under 10 °C/km and returns to ground level temperatures at about 2000 m altitude. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260973451_One_Year_of_SurfaceBased_Temperature_Inversions_at_Dome_C_Antarctica). So even the "back-radiation" from a 2 km thick warm air layer cannot heat up the ground. The lack of convection is the reason why the ground remains cold.
17. The fertilization effect of carbon dioxide makes the world greener
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