New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Deduced from an Empirical Planetary Temperature Model

Nikolov, Ned; Zeller, Karl

doi:10.4172/2573-458x.1000112

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“…* These figures are disputed by recent work [4] however this still would not change the conclusions here.…”

Section: Explanation Of the New 'Null' Hypothesis Of Climate Change Pmentioning

confidence: 53%

“…Calculate Mars calculated surface temperature = 180K to 234K The average temperature on Mars is reported as either 210K [13] or 191K [4]. As suspected from other work [1] [4] this method of temperature calculation is tricky for Mars, due to the very low and highly variable atmospheric pressure. Pressures were measured [60] at the Viking 1 landing site and varied between 0.69kPa and 0.9kPa, according to the season.…”

Section: Methodology Involves Calculating the Average Near-surface Tementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Under the latter, the contraction and compression of an inter-stellar molecular gas cloud under gravity, achieves such enormously high temperatures that nuclear fusion initiates, and a star is born [3]. Support for the idea of a permanent thermal gradient caused by the action of gravity on a thick atmosphere, in the presence of the solar flux comes from recent work by Nikolov & Zeller [4].…”

Section: Thermal Gradients Appear In All Atmospheres Above a Pressurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Thermal Enhancement on Planetary Bodies and the Relevance of the Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law to the Null Hypothesis of Climate Change

Holmes¹

2018

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Presented here is a simple and reliable method of accurately calculating the average near surface atmospheric temperature on all planetary bodies which possess a surface atmospheric pressure of over 0.69kPa, by the use of the molar mass version of the ideal gas law. This method requires a gas constant and the near-surface averages of only three gas parameters; the atmospheric pressure, the atmospheric density and the mean molar mass. The accuracy of this method proves that all information on the effective plus the residual near-surface atmospheric temperature on planetary bodies with thick atmospheres, is automatically 'baked-in' to the three mentioned gas parameters. It is also known that whenever an atmospheric pressure exceeds 10kPa, convection and other modes of energy transfer will totally dominate over radiative interactions in the transfer of energy, and that a rising thermal gradient always forms from that level. This rising thermal gradient continues down to the surface, and even below it if there is a depression or a mine-shaft present. This measured thermodynamic situation, coupled with other empirical science presented herein, mean that it is very likely that no one gas has an anomalous effect on atmospheric temperatures that is significantly more than any other gas. In short; there is unlikely to be any significant net warming from the greenhouse effect on any planetary body in the parts of atmospheres which are >10kPa. Instead, it is proposed that the residual temperature difference between the effective temperature and the measured near-surface temperature, is a thermal enhancement caused by gravitationally-induced adiabatic auto-compression, powered by convection. A new null hypothesis of global warming or climate change is therefore proposed and argued for; one which does not include any anomalous or net warming from greenhouse gases in the tropospheric atmospheres of any planetary body.

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“…* These figures are disputed by recent work [4] however this still would not change the conclusions here.…”

Section: Explanation Of the New 'Null' Hypothesis Of Climate Change Pmentioning

confidence: 53%

Section: Methodology Involves Calculating the Average Near-surface Tementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Thermal Gradients Appear In All Atmospheres Above a Pressurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Thermal Enhancement on Planetary Bodies and the Relevance of the Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law to the Null Hypothesis of Climate Change

Holmes¹

2018

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“…It is known from the Stefan-Boltzmann law that the radiating temperature of an isolated planetary body in space, (one which possesses no atmosphere), varies with the fourthroot of the power incident upon it [30]. And given that previous works [1][2][3][4] have detailed that a principle factor in determining atmospheric temperatures on planetary bodies with thick atmospheres is atmospheric pressure, logic dictates that these may be combined -initially at a standard for pressure -for example, 1 bar.…”

Section: Applying the Stefan-boltzmann Law Of Isolated Bodies To Planmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is known that all planetary bodies with thicker atmospheres naturally set up a rising thermal gradient in that part of the atmosphere, which is higher than a pressure of 0.1 bar, until that bodies' surface is reached [1]. Previous works [2][3][4]14] have indicated that there may be a relationship between total solar irradiance (TSI), atmospheric pressures and planetary atmospheric temperature on bodies which possess thick atmospheres. It is shown here that this relationship appears to exist across all three terrestrial-type bodies which possess thick atmospheres.…”

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On the Apparent Relationship Between Total Solar Irradiance and the Atmospheric Temperature at 1 Bar on Three Terrestrial-type Bodies

Holmes¹

2019

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It has been discovered that there appears to exist a close relationship between relative differences in total solar irradiance and the atmospheric temperature, at a pressure of 1 bar, on all three terrestrial-type bodies which possess thick atmospheres. The apparent relationship is through the quaternary root of total solar irradiance at 1 bar, and applies to the planetary bodies Venus, Earth and Titan. The relationship is so close that the average surface atmospheric temperature of Earth can be easily calculated to within 1 Kelvin (0.5%) of the correct figure by the knowledge of only two numbers, neither of which are related to the Earth's atmosphere. These are; the atmospheric temperature in the Venusian atmosphere at 1 bar, and the top-of-atmosphere solar insolation of the two planets. A similar relationship in atmospheric temperatures is found to exist, through insolation differences alone, between the atmospheric temperatures at 1 bar of the planetary bodies Titan and Earth, and Venus and Titan. This relationship exists despite the widely varying atmospheric greenhouse gas content, and the widely varying albedos of the three planetary bodies. This result is consistent with previous research with regards to atmospheric temperatures and their relationship to the molar mass version of the ideal gas law, in that this work also points to a climate sensitivity to CO 2-or to any other 'greenhouse' gas-which is close to or at zero. It is more confirmation that the main determinants of atmospheric temperatures in the regions of terrestrial planetary atmospheres which are >0.1 bar, is overwhelmingly the result of two factors; solar insolation and atmospheric pressure. There appears to be no measurable, or what may be better termed 'anomalous' warming input from a class of gases which have up until the present, been incorrectly labelled as 'greenhouse' gases.

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2022

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New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Deduced from an Empirical Planetary Temperature Model

Cited by 14 publications

References 93 publications

Thermal Enhancement on Planetary Bodies and the Relevance of the Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law to the Null Hypothesis of Climate Change

Thermal Enhancement on Planetary Bodies and the Relevance of the Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law to the Null Hypothesis of Climate Change

On the Apparent Relationship Between Total Solar Irradiance and the Atmospheric Temperature at 1 Bar on Three Terrestrial-type Bodies

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