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December 2008 at 6:49 AM Re #126, Jim, Your enourmous post seems to be stating something along the lines of debying GHG abilty to trap heat released from the surface of the earth thus denying AGW. Is that the case?

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December 2008 at 6:49 AM Re #126, Jim, Your enourmous post seems to be stating something along the lines of debying GHG abilty to trap heat released from the surface of the earth thus denying AGW. Is that the case?

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• Ray Ladbury Says: 4 December 2008 at 8:09 AM Jim, Your entire thesis seems to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of blackbody radiation. Think about it. In thermal equilibrium, energy absorbed at 15 microns will equal energy emitted in the same band. It won’t depend on the material or the state of the material. I don’t know your mathematical background, but I would strongly recommend reading the treatment of the subject in Landau and Lifshitz “Statistical Mechanics”. I’m afraid that this is not the sort of misunderstanding that is likely to be cleared up by a response on a blog page. You need to sit down with someone who actually understands this stuff and work through it. • Lynn Vincentnathan Says: 4 December 2008 at 10:13 AM RE Jim #126 & “I’m not getting a dime from the oil companies or from Senator Inhofe, although it’d be nice.” I think this is how it works. The oil companies (and don’t forget coal) and Sen. Inhofe look for persons with the following: 1. Someone who soun

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