Which is a better explanation of weather and climate?
John Shanahan
August 24, 2024
1) Sunlight and infrared radiation's interaction with greenhouse gasses, average albedo effect of clouds and a circular flat stationary disk representing rotating orbiting, spherical, Earth - no time variable, one representation of Earth's climate, the average temperature.
2) Sunlight, infrared radiation's interaction with greenhouse gasses, mass and heat movement from the equator to the poles and from the ocean and land surfaces to higher elevations, and vast amounts of water interaction in four states: a) snow & ice, b) oceans, c) cloud droplets, and d) water vapor. All acting on the actual spherical, rotating, orbiting Earth with different climates and temperatures everywhere.
Scientists who focus on (1) often are critical of those focusing on (2) even claiming that (2) is bad science.
Since when is studying atmospheric physics and weather bad science and since when is the study of photons and greenhouse gasses the only answer to climate change?
This document presents new papers by three authors using approach (2). Everyone is invited to criticize, comment or question the ideas in these papers. Send the authors private emails.
Gerald Ratzer, Where is the missing 33 degree C of heat in the Atmosphere?
email: gerald.ratzer@mcgill.ca
Other articles by Gerald Ratzer and co-author Douglas Lightfoot.
Terigi Ciccone, Why all the fuss with CO2 and the Greenhouse effect
email: terigiciccone@gmail.com
Other articles by Terigi Ciccone
Alex Pope, Internal climate response including water in its changing states
email: alexpope13@gmail.com
Other articles by Alex Pope
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