August 27, 2024
To:
UK
Dr. Valentina Zharkova
Subject:
Climate Complexity
Dear Dr. Zharkova,
I know about your impressive work on solar activity. To which you attribute several climate change observations. But the energy flow from Sun to Earth and from Earth to universe is not the only determinant for temperatures in our habitable shell of the Earth. The energy received at the surface must be expelled in order to keep a stable system. The outward transport over the first 10 km is not only radiation but also classic thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. If the resistance against the total outward flow changes, the temperature must change proportionally in order to re-establish a stable situation.
Therefore, it is even plausible that with more solar input, if we could lower the said resistance proportionally more, we should be able to observe a lower temperature. Or the reverse with a lazier Sun and more resistance.
The temperature near the surface is an indicator of the multi-factor energy transport system. And one-factor approaches, without knowledge of the other transport processes involved, are useless. One factor studies, like CO2, radiation, volcanoes, and many more may be impressive for their own sake, but before they tell us something meaningful about climates…: There is more between heaven and Earth than one-factor proponents have dreamt
of.
About the climate complexity and multi-factors I wrote some notes. Perhaps some of it might interest you:
1. https://www.clepair.net/climate_system_and_actors.html
2. https://www.clepair.net/complexity.html
3. https://www.clepair.net/GreenhousClP-Eng.html
4. https://www.clepair.net/Thermodynamicist.html
The 4th is an attempt to which a thermodynamic consideration might lead.
Yours sincerely,
Kees le Pair
The Netherlands