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I’ve been in a number of discussions over at Climate Audit (www.climateaudit.org) regarding the basic thermodynamics of the greenhouse effect. Not the physics of absorption spectra, just the basic thermodynamics.

That’s not a discussion that Steve McIntyre (the host at Climate Audit) wants us to have. Fair enough.

The most recent discussion (with Gunnar) was quite long, and eventually came down to this:
Gunnar asserted that a small mass could not cause substantial warming in a much larger mass, and I disagreed (wholeheartedly).

Since the discussion keeps coming up, I thought I’d provide a forum for it. And here it is…