Greenhouse Effect and the 1909 Wood's Experiment

GreenMan wrote:

Into the Night wrote:

You haven't looked at the weather in the Pacific Northwest, have you?

We get warm fronts here that last for MONTHS.

There is no such thing as a "front" that last for months, idiot. Warm air moves in from somewhere else. Then it's over, even if it stays warm for weeks after the warm air come in. That doesn't mean a front is still moving in. It just means that the greenhouse gases in the air are warming the air a little more than the ground is warming it.

Into the Night wrote:

Wake wrote:

Into the Night wrote: We get warm fronts here that last for MONTHS.

But that doesn't change the fact that sun showing on the surface of dirt absorbs essentially 100% of the energy. Then depending on the conductivity of the soil and the temperature of the air above it it may conduct that energy into the air.

Remember that greenman was arguing that air was warmer than soil.

Actually, it does (a bit). Much of our warm air comes from the nearby ocean water, which is absorbing more energy than our soil is (because it's cloudy all the time!).