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Doesn't Increase of Potential Temperature with Height contradict Adiabatic Nature of Processes within Troposphere?
According to my education as a sailplane pilot our troposphere is in good approximation subject to adiabatic processes.
Using adiabatic equations of (nearly ideal) ...
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Potential effect of another "year without a summer" on solar-powered society? [closed]
In the "year without a summer", a volcanic eruptions caused enough sunlight to be blocked for average global temperatures to drop by 0.4–0.7 °C. What would be the effect of this sort of event on a ...
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Is nuclear power desireable in the long term, given the fact that it's an unnatural heat input to our planet? [closed]
I've been reflecting on whether we want nuclear at all in the long term (compared to renewables like wind, solar, and hydro). There's a certain amount of heat (energy) entering our planet and leaving ...
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When sunlight bounces off the Earth, why isn't the entire spectrum reflected rather than just the infrared portion?
I've read that greenhouse gases absorb and reemit sunlight, and that the infrared portion is what bounces off Earth back to space. When sunlight bounces off the Earth, why isn't the entire spectrum ...
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