Ned Nikolov: The Ill-defined “Greenhouse Effect” | Tom Nelson Pod #277

Dr. Ned Nikolov obtained his Ph.D. Degree in ecosystem modeling from Colorado State University in 1997. He then spent 3 years as a post-doctorate researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. Since 2001, he has been working as a physical scientist in one capacity or another for a project funded by the US Forest Service focused on developing of fire-weather applications based on historical climatological data and producing operational fire-weather forecasts to assist the wildfire- and smoke management in the USA. He has been conducting climate research since 2011.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction
01:05 Defining the Greenhouse Effect
03:23 Historical Context and Key Papers
03:56 Convective Fluxes and Atmospheric Dynamics
05:51 Critique of Mainstream Climate Science
13:05 Thermodynamics and Ideal Gas Law
17:03 Hydrostatic Equilibrium and Barometric Equation
23:45 Polytropic Processes in the Atmosphere
32:44 Adiabatic Lapse Rates and Atmospheric Stability
37:57 Impact of Water Vapor on Lapse Rates
43:18 Thermal Kinetic Energy and Surface Flux Attenuation
46:14 Energy Flux and Atmospheric Pressure
47:27 Effective Emission Height and Tropospheric Energy
50:12 Greenhouse Effect Misconceptions
53:45 Earth's Energy Imbalance
01:03:41 Shortwave Radiation and Temperature Correlation
01:09:49 Modeling Climate Change
01:15:07 Conclusions and Implications
01:18:22 Funding and Climate Science
01:20:35 Glaciation Cycles and Atmospheric Mass
01:25:38 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

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