Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics

TL;DR

This paper critically examines the atmospheric greenhouse effect, demonstrating that it contradicts fundamental physical laws and is based on misapplied formulas, thus falsifying the widely accepted mechanism in climatology.

Contribution

The paper provides a rigorous physical analysis that refutes the atmospheric greenhouse effect as a scientifically valid mechanism.

Findings

No physical laws support the greenhouse effect as described.

The 33°C temperature difference is a calculation error.

Inappropriate use of cavity radiation formulas invalidates the effect.

Abstract

The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896), and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation. In this paper the popular conjecture is analyzed and the underlying physical principles are clarified. By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference of 33 degrees Celsius is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified.