The highlighted sentence shows you either haven't got a clue about what's being claimed about CO2, or you are deliberately being disingenuous.
I know what the Church of Global claims about CO2. It is not science.
-> The Church of Global Warming claims that the mere presence of a Magick Holy Gas (such as CO2) creates energy out of nothing, causing the temperature to increase.
The 1st law of thermodynamics states E(t+1) = E(t) - U where 'E' is energy, 't' is time, and 'U' is work (or force applied over time). Since the mere presence of a gas is not a force, 'U' is zero. Therefore, E(t+1) = E(t).
-> The Church of Global Warming claims the mere presence of a Magick Holy Gas has the ability to increase the surface temperature while cooling the upper atmosphere. This is a reduction of entropy.
The 2nd law of thermodynamics states e(t+1) >= e(t) where 'e' is entropy, and 't' is time. Entropy NEVER decreases. It always increases or stays the same. In other words, available energy to perform work always dissipates or remains the same. It NEVER collects. This defines the concept of 'heat' and give it a direction. Heat is the flow of thermal energy. It always flows form concentrated thermal energy (something that's 'hot'), to a relative lack of thermal energy (something that's 'cold'). It NEVER flows from 'cold' to 'hot'.
The Church of Global Warming literally tries to use a cooler gas in the atmosphere to heat a warmer surface.
-> The Church of Global Warming claims the presence of a Magick Holy Gas has the ability to keep Earth from radiating light due to thermal energy.
The Stefan-Boltzmann law states r = C * e * t^4, where 'r' is radiated light, in watts, of a square area, 'C' is a natural constant (that serves to convert the relation to our units of measurement), 'e' is 'emissivity' or how well a surface can emit or absorb light (as opposed to reflecting it, for example), and 't' is temperature in deg K.
This relation describes how thermal energy is converted to electromagnetic energy (light), which is radiated from Earth. This includes any gas, any liquid, any solid surface, ANYTHING. This is radiant heat.
The Church of Global Warming likes to add terms to this equation to include a sequence, or to include a frequency term, or to add a 'materials' term. They also attempt to state radiance is reduced as temperature rises. The equation shows radiance is proportional to temperature, NEVER the inverse.
As noted in IBDaMann's sig page, a Believer's argument typically rotates among which theory of science is getting denied by shifting context at convenient moments, or by playing word games.
Another favorite is the term 'climate change'. This is wacky. Climate has no values that can change. It has no temperature, it has no precipitation, it has no windspeed or direction, it has no value of any kind that can 'change'. There is no global climate. Earth is made up of many climates. A climate is just a subjective description only. A desert climate will always be a desert climate, irregardless of whether you are standing in a desert or if any desert appears, moves, or disappears at all. A climate is nothing more than a subjective description. It has no values that can 'change'.
The use of 'climate change' as a phrase to mean 'global warming' came about in winter in the northern hemisphere, to try to blame a snowstorm on 'global warming'. In other words, it's just rebranding the same religion under a different name.
I frankly got tired of keeping up with the global cooling/warming/coming ice age/warming/climatechange/climatecrisis/globalcrisis/WhatevertheFuckTheyCallitNow bullshit. So I just call it the Church of Global Warming.
These theories of science they routinely deny, or they say they don't apply for this case or that case. Theories of science apply in all cases, continuously at all times, throughout the known universe. They can never be just set aside for even a nanosecond.
You are an electrician, and from what I observe in your postings, a pretty competent one. You deal mostly with Ohm's law. Because of the low frequencies involved in your work, you don't even have to deal much with skin effect on the wire. You already know that you can't set aside Ohm's law for any length of time. That wire or that device is always subject to it's effects, continuously, for the life of the wiring as long as the building is energized.
You also deal with watts (which are just joules per second), and watt-hours (which are joules per second, measured over an hour, or rather, the equivalent of it).
Heat is like current, whether in a wire or in a pipe or river. It is not the energy itself (which is measured in watts). Heat is to thermal energy what current is to electrical work.
A blanket reduces heat, just as a resistor reduces current. You also know that though the Electrical Code describes current rating in wiring, it is the POWER that does the actual warming in a wire, as no wire is a perfect conductor. As you know, resistors (including the wire itself!) converts some of the electrical energy in watts to thermal energy in watts.
You also know that with no voltage on the wire, and no current, the wire cannot heat itself. Yet, this is exactly the kind of thing the Church of Global Warming claims is possible.
