re:quoted material from the Church of Global Warming
Less energy is escaping to space:
That violates the Stefan-Boltzmann law. You can't reduce radiance and increase temperature at the same time.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) acts like a blanket; adding more CO2 makes the 'blanket' thicker, and humans are adding more CO2 all the time.
The Magick Blanket argument doesn't work. It violates the Stefan-Boltzmann law.
The Earth is wrapped in an invisible blanket
There is no Magick one way blanket. There is no blanket at all.
It is the Earth’s atmosphere that makes most life possible. To understand this, we can look at the moon. On the surface, the moon’s temperature during daytime can reach 100°C (212°F). At night, it can plunge to minus 173°C, or -279.4°F. In comparison, the coldest temperature on Earth was recorded in Antarctica: −89.2°C (−128.6°F). According to the WMO, the hottest was 56.7°C (134°F), measured on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch (Death Valley).
Here you bring up a paradox, and is the reason your argument is irrational.
The Moon has no appreciable atmosphere. No CO2, no methane, no 'greenhouse gasses'. Daytime temperatures on the Moon's surface can reach 250 deg F, not just 212 deg F. On Earth, there is not only an atmosphere, but there are 'greenhouse' gasses also. If CO2 is capable of warming the Earth, why is Earth's surface so much COLDER during the day?
Yet the Earth and the moon are virtually the same distance from the sun, so why do we experience much less heat and cold than the moon?
Heat has no temperature, dude. Heat is not thermal energy.
The answer is because of our atmosphere. The moon doesn’t have one, so it is exposed to the full strength of energy coming from the sun.
So is the Earth. The presence of an atmosphere changes nothing.
At night, temperatures plunge because there is no atmosphere to keep the heat in, as there is on Earth.
it is not possible to slow or trap heat. Heat has no temperature. Temperatures on Earth's surface is moderate because the atmosphere has mass. Like any mass, it takes time to heat it or cool it. The atmosphere is also a fluid. It is capable of redistributing thermal energy around the planet somewhat. It also does not heat the Earth. The Earth heats the atmosphere. ALL of it radiates into space, with the surface doing most of the radiation, according to the Stefan-Boltzmann law.
The laws of physics tell us that without the atmosphere, the Earth would be approximately 33°C (59.4°F) cooler than it actually is.
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No, they don't. There is no such theory or law. Since you seem to think there is, please state the law (the equation) and the theory supporting it, including the author of that theory. Also please explain how this theory falsifies the 1st law of thermodynamics and the Stefan-Boltzmann law.
The reason that the Earth is warm enough to sustain life is because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
No gas or vapor is capable of warming the Earth. You are denying science again.
These gases act like a blanket,
There is no Magick Blanket. Putting a blanket on a rock does not keep it warm.
keeping the Earth warm by preventing some of the sun’s energy being re-radiated into space.
You are violating the Stefan-Boltzmann law again. You cannot reduce radiance and increase temperature at the same time.
The effect is exactly the same as wrapping yourself in a blanket
There is no Magic Blanket. The Earth does not generate significant thermal energy. Putting a blanket around Earth would prevent energy from the Sun from reaching Earth. The effect would be a COLDER Earth, not a warmer one.