Ned Nikolov: The Ill-defined “Greenhouse Effect” | Tom Nelson Pod #277

Tom Nelson

Dr. Ned Nikolov obtained his Ph.D. Degree in ecosystem modeling from Colorado State University in 1997. He then spent 3 years as a post-doctorate researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. Since 2001, he has been working as a physical scientist in one capacity or another for a project funded by the US Forest Service focused on developing of fire-weather applications based on historical climatological data and producing operational fire-weather forecasts to assist the wildfire- and smoke management in the USA. He has been conducting climate research since 2011.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction

01:05 Defining the Greenhouse Effect

03:23 Historical Context and Key Papers

03:56 Convective Fluxes and Atmospheric Dynamics

05:51 Critique of Mainstream Climate Science

13:05 Thermodynamics and Ideal Gas Law

17:03 Hydrostatic Equilibrium and Barometric Equation

23:45 Polytropic Processes in the Atmosphere

32:44 Adiabatic Lapse Rates and Atmospheric Stability

37:57 Impact of Water Vapor on Lapse Rates

43:18 Thermal Kinetic Energy and Surface Flux Attenuation

46:14 Energy Flux and Atmospheric Pressure

47:27 Effective Emission Height and Tropospheric Energy

50:12 Greenhouse Effect Misconceptions

53:45 Earth's Energy Imbalance

01:03:41 Shortwave Radiation and Temperature Correlation

01:09:49 Modeling Climate Change

01:15:07 Conclusions and Implications

01:18:22 Funding and Climate Science

01:20:35 Glaciation Cycles and Atmospheric Mass

01:25:38 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

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