Do Global Energy budgets make sense. ???

[Derek]

(03-17-2010 06:24 AM)Sunsettommy Wrote:  Will this help?

Another Look at Climate Sensitivity

I have read this post in the comments,

Terry Oldberg (09:44:22) :

" In the language of thermodynamics, there is no such thing as an “energy flow.” The only energy that “flows” is heat.
In a Kiehl-Trenberth diagram, some of the “flows” are heat. Others are radiation intensities.
It is clear that the “back radiation” is not heat for it “flows” from cold to hot matter;
if it were heat, it could not flow in this manner, under the second law of thermodynamics.
However, while we have a conservation principle for heat flows, we do not have one for radiation intensities.
Thus, the proposition that the K-T diagram portrays some kind of “balance” is false. "

The important part of this is,
However, while we have a conservation principle for heat flows,
we do not have one for radiation intensities.

I'm thinking this whole quote of Terry Oldberg, and a link to the WUWT thread should be worked into the piece.