CO2 Can’t Heat The Oceans

This was brought to my attention by Ocean IR Emissivity Paper agrees with Talkshop. I won’t bore you with the gloating there. Instead lets get to the meat: New paper finds a huge false physical assumption of IPCC climate models.

For all four of these physical reasons (and more)

* poor absorption by water of IR from greenhouse gases

* good reflection by water surfaces of IR from greenhouse gases

* penetration depth of water by IR from greenhouse gases of only a few microns, which causes evaporative cooling of the ocean skin surface

* cooling of the ocean skin surface by the minority of IR from greenhouse gases that is absorbed rather than reflected

ocean warming can only be related to solar activity and modulators of sunshine at the surface like clouds, and not increased IR radiation from increased greenhouse gases.

This is a death knell for conventional climate models, which falsely assume the opposite of the four physical reasons above, thus falsely claiming IR from greenhouse gases can heat the oceans (70% of Earth’s surface area) and where allegedly 90% of the “missing heat” has gone. This is impossible for the physical reasons noted above, and this new paper adds additional physical reasons why. As the authors find, the false emissivity/absorptivity assumptions of climate models results in a huge difference in model projections of Arctic temperatures by 2C after only 25 years, but the authors are apparently unaware of the reasons why only solar wavelengths can account for ocean warming/cooling, not IR from greenhouse gases.

If you hang around here much you know that I have been pretty much a solar only guy for the last few years and before that I was a lukewarmist (CO2 will heat the planet but not by much). It looks more and more like CO2 in the atmosphere changes nothing. The long version of that is: water vapor is already doing the absorbing and the water vapor bands are saturated. So even if CO2 is a warming gas it is very minor because most of the frequencies where it absorbs energy are already covered by water vapor.