On 3/21/2015 12:06 PM, ChrisB wrote:
I think that it’s reasonable to assume that the effect would be transitory,
Moose. I have always done so.
I don't know why that would be true. A certain amount of light energy from the Sun impinges on the Earth and its
atmosphere. Some is reflected, some re-radiated into space. The rest interacts with a complex system to produce
many/most aspects of our very complex ecosystem, including temperature.
If a layer in the atmosphere that is reflecting some of this incoming energy back out into space is removed, the total
energy going into our ecosystem is increased, not briefly, but continuously. What else can it do, but increase total
system energy, including increased molecular movement, which is heat?
Some of any such increase will increase (re)radiation out into space, but that will only be a small proportion of the
input, and will only occur if temperatures are increased.
I'm not aware of exceptions to the First Law of Thermodynamics, "Energy is neither created nor destroyed". Einstein's
Special Theory extended this Law to include matter, but didn't change its meaning.
More energy coming into a system does not disappear, it causes change.
Energetically Lawful Moose
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