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| Where da photons at? |
In the previous post of this series I included links to, Aerosol absorption has an underappreciated role in historical precipitation change) and Dr. James Hansen weighs in).
I searched those papers for the words "photon" and "infrared" in them, but since those words are not contained in them, I googled for papers in Nature and elsewhere using "La Nina" and "El Nino" then searched the papers for "photon" (but came up empty).
I was quite surprised because evidently universities are not teaching the law of thermodynamics or the basic nature of heat, but relax, because the word photon still appears in Wikipedia and Britannica and Nature Photonics.
It is not surprising that myths abound concerning heat in the ocean, because it is commonly believed that light (photons) cannot go very deep (a few meters),.
But perhaps that myth is changing:
"On our watery planet, the ocean is the primary regulator of global climate by continuous radiative, mechanical and gaseous exchanges with the atmosphere. In particular, the ocean absorbs, stores, and transports through its flow motion (i.e., currents) heat from the sun affecting atmospheric temperature and circulation around the world. Furthermore, seawater is the source of most precipitation. The ocean is much more efficient at storing heat (93% of the excess of energy resulting from the human induced Green House Gases content in the atmosphere) than the continents (3%) and the atmosphere (1%). As a result, the ocean is the slow component of the climate system and has a moderating effect on climate changes. However, consequent to the continuous absorption by the ocean of the human induced excess of heat, ocean waters are warming, which has consequences on the ocean’s properties and dynamics, on its exchanges with the atmosphere and on the habitats of marine ecosystems. For a long time, discussions of climate change did not take the oceans fully into account, simply because there was very little knowledge about the latter. Nonetheless, our ability to understand and anticipate what might happen to Earth’s climate in the future, depends on our understanding of the role of the ocean in climate."
(Ocean Climate Org, emphasis added). Here on Dredd Blog photon reality is discussed in the context of Oceanography (In Search Of Ocean Heat, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20; The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; Patterns: Conservative Temperature & Potential Enthalpy, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Current knowledge is insufficient.
The previous post in this series is here.
A lack of photon knowledge can lead to:
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