Reply to article by Alan Siddons: Equilibrium Prevents Humans from Heating the Atmosphere by Gary Novak

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It’s refreshing to see Gary Novak challenging climatology’s cherished assumptions (as usual), but I believe that more scrutiny should be cast on that minus 19° temperature in the first place. The premise of this widely-accepted estimate is flawed because, due to the 4th power relationship between irradiance and temperature, the average of one cannot agree with the average of the other. Consider, for instance, merely two spots on earth exposed to two different solar irradiances.

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