Radiative

The simple reason that our calculator shows higher emissions totals than Qantas’ is that we take into account what is known as the Radiative Forcing Index, a multiplier used because the greenhouse impact of emissions at high altitude is greater than if they were emitted on the ground.

Calculate your flight’s carbon impact with Carbon Planet | Lifehacker Australia 2008

The simple reason that our calculator shows higher emissions totals than Qantas’ is that we take into account what is known as the Radiative Forcing Index, a multiplier used because the greenhouse impact of emissions at high altitude is greater than if they were emitted on the ground.

Calculate your flight’s carbon impact with Carbon Planet | Lifehacker Australia 2008

Would you be so kind as to allow me to express some numbers that were flawed by I don’t know whom in the so called Radiative Forcing Formula?

Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit 2007

Radiative transfer arises when molecules intercept the light that warmer molecules are emitting, which brings about a resonant molecular vibration, i.e., heating.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

Radiative transfer, for instance, is unavoidably complex.

Initial value vs. boundary value problems | Serendipity 2010

Yet the IPCC's claimed "Radiative Forcing" from rising CO2 is only now at around 1.7 Watts per sq. metre p.a., while Solar Radiation at even Pt Barrow actually FELL from 2006 in January 1960 to 1505 Wh/sq.metre in January 2005.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

A. I. Lyapustin, "Radiative transfer code SHARM for atmospheric and terrestrial applications," Appl.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

Temperature changes over time can be affected by various factors, including changes in Solar Radiation (SR) and in the Radiative Forcing (RF) attributable to rising atmospheric concentrations of anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

From "Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing," by the IPCC are two graphic illustrations of the scientific consensus on those points.

David Fiderer: The Simple Arithmetic of Global Warming Supports the Economics of a Climate Change Bill 2009

Radiative energy returning to space from earth is absorbed in a few wavelengths, at least by CO2, and then re-emitted.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge 2009