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Old 21st-February-2008, 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by cbacba View Post
I've understood it since it appeared to be cooling off in a big way. What seems to be missing from your understanding is that increased absorption leads to increased emission (even at constant T).
Nay, increased emission that warms the planet at increasing T. Some may be emitted with no increase it T, but not all, and that little bit is all it takes to cause an increase in T of land and water. And it may be smallish now, but just add up all the years into the future that we might add to this equation with our primitive industrial processes. What then?
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