Study Finds ‘CO2 Can Have No Measurable Effect On Temperatures’
The anthropogenic global warming paradigm has a magnitude problem – especially when it comes to the assumption that we humans can warm the ocean with our CO2 emissions.
New research suggests that the sensitivity of the ocean latent heat flux to wind speed is about 15 W/m² per meter per second, and the solar daily flux varies from 1 to 2 megajoules per square meter per day (1-2 MJ m⁻² day−1).
In contrast, the total accumulated downward longwave flux to the surface from a 250-year CO2 concentration increase of 140 ppm is just 2 W/m², which translates to just 0.17 MJ m⁻² day−1.
Thus, the impact from CO2 “can have no measurable effect on ocean temperatures.”
Not only this, but the depth of influence for downwelling longwave for ‘greenhouse gases’ is only about 1/10th of a millimeter (0.1 mm, or 100 microns) at most.
Wong and Minnett (2018) insist the depth of radiative effects for CO2 is ten times smaller than 0.01 mm, or one-one-hundredth of a mm.
Therefore, the 0.17 MJ m⁻² day−1 of CO2 influence “is simply absorbed within the within the first 100-micron ocean layer and dissipated as an insignificant part of the total surface cooling flux.”
Simply put then, “there can be no ‘climate sensitivity’ to CO2.”
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Koen Vogel
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Hi Kenneth,
I agree with your conclusions but not with the reasoning. You’re comparing absolute values ( sensitivity of the ocean latent heat flux) to changes in absolute values (CO2). The average sensitivity of the ocean latent heat flux has likely not changed over time, while atmospheric CO2 has. I agree a change in ocean heat causes climate change. How that heat gets into the ocean is therefore a key question. I (a distinct minority on this site) think (variations in) geothermal heat flux, as the oceans have uniformly warmed over time below the 20-200 m surface layer where wind, solar and any CO2 effects are happening.
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