Do Global Energy budgets make sense. ???

[h-j-m]

As I see it there are two possibilities. Either applying the Stefan–Boltzmann law results in a number representing all energy given up by a body's surface or I have misunderstood what I read about it. In the latter case I would like to know what I have gotten wrong.

Else Trenberth and colleagues should have subtracted the values for thermal and latent heat from their value for surface radiation and stated so. Of cause that would lead to a smaller (but still impressive) value for back-radiation. Besides, I am not sure, but I think it would deal a minor blow at their reputation and, do to the fact that this diagram is around for more than 10 years, the so called peer review process too.