Having established that the heat isn’t being transferred from the atmosphere to the oceans, but the other way around, I now need to consider the issue that water vapour at the ocean surface is present at up to 25,000ppm, which is 60 times the current level of CO2 and 80 times that of a hundred years ago. Water is clearly the major IR forcer, so I’ll look for papers discussing the impact of an extra 100ppm of CO2 on the overall equation.
In the meantime, do you have an opinion on aerial volcanic CO2, emissions of which have recently been shown to be at least a magnitude greater than previously estimated, and sub-sea volcanic activity, which, since people have actually started investigating them, are proving to be substantially larger than Gerhlach’s 1991 seminal paper on the issue?
