Do Global Energy budgets make sense. ???

[Derek]

From this thread - post 10.
Another great find by Richard111.

(10-01-2010 12:41 AM)Richard111 Wrote:  I think this may be of interest. I never considered energy absorbed in the biosphere is converted to matter.

The Diurnal Bulge and the fallacies of the "Greenhouse Effect"

This quote is refering to the K&T global energy budget.

Quote:The most obvious clue that this graph is fraudulent is the fact that the incoming and outgoing energy have been set as equal or balanced. This is not a true energy budget of the Earth at all. The incoming and out going energy of the Earth is most certainly not balanced. This graph is a depiction of a dead planet. It fails to account for the energy which is locked away by the biosphere. It does not account for the energy which is locked in by life on Earth. The flora and fauna which trap and convert vast amounts of energy and convert that energy into matter is completely missing. It fails to account for the energy which over billions of years has been locked away deep in the Earths crust. The energy consumed in the production of oil, coal, peat, fossils, limestone and on and on. This graph makes a mockery of science and natural philosophy and should be considered as the icon of Post Normal Science bullshit.

Life locking away solar energy, that is undeniable.
Over vastly differing time scales to boot.

This alone makes a mockery of global energy budgets "balancing" over the 1 year time scale they plotted
(- although expressed as watts per meter squared, per second figures).

Later addition -
from this thread, post 12

(10-06-2010 12:04 AM)Richard111 Wrote:  I went looking for info on photosynthesis and found this:
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Lots of info, even shows photons being absorbed.