Monthly Archives: February 2010

Miskolczi’s theory of a saturated greenhouse effect

A radical but rather elegant theory has been proposed by a Hungarian Physicist Ferenc Miskolczi (see refs) that the Earth maintains a maximised greenhouse effect  to allow the Earth to cool as efficiently as possible. This self-regulation arises  because  70% … Continue reading

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CO2 greenhouse effects

If our eyes were sensitive to the IR radiation in the main CO2 absorption bands then we would just see fog. The atmosphere is opaque to CO2 at well below pre-industrial levels with an absorption length of about 10 meters. … Continue reading

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Doubling CO2 and basic physics

I have been struggling to understand exactly how increasing CO2 levels leads to global warming using  basic physics, and the story is complex. The trapping of certain bands of infrared radiation emitted from the Earth by greenhouse gases is well … Continue reading

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