John Kerry: Air Conditioners as Big a Threat as ISIS

Let’s always keep in mind that the model for greenhouse gases (GHGs) of all kinds is of a planet with no night time. Their 24/7 daylight model has GHGs absorbing and re-emitting IR radiation as it enters and leaves the atmosphere. They do not admit that, during the day, this process is a wash as the GHGs are saturated and IR is traveling in both directions as it is randomly re-emitted by the GHGs.
However, at night, with no incoming or outgoing IR radiation, the GHGs are free to convert heat energy in the atmosphere to IR radiation that is emitted up and down. As the surface is almost always warmer than the air above it, the downward IR is reflected back upward to be lost to space. This easily explains why the air cools down so rapidly after the sun goes down and why little breezes kick up so quickly around the shadows of clouds on a day with scudding clouds.
As, daytime GHG effects are a wash and night time effects are outward, GHGs clearly serve to cool the planet. That is the horrible, huge secret of the junk science of global warming by man and GHGs.
Kerry does not mention that, although CFCs maybe much stronger GHGs than CO2 (this may not be all that true and needs to be checked), CFCs are at a vastly lower concentration that CO2. That is the weakness of their complaint regarding methane. Although methane is reputedly a 20-fold stronger GHG than CO2, it is at one-hundredth of CO2’s concentration, contributing only as much as 5% of the effect of CO2. But, water vapor is an even stronger GHG over which CO2 and man has no control.
Water is part of the water cycle and represents a huge global heat engine that is responsible for the movement of as much as 85% of the energy budget from he surface to altitude, where by condensation and latent heat energy release, the energy is lost to space.
It is fraudulent to pretend that CO2 warms the atmosphere which then evaporates more water with ch warms the atmosphere which then evaporates more water . . . ad nauseous and NOT to bring in the water cycle and the convection of warm moist air upward as part of the heat engine. To ignore the water cycle is to perpetrate a fraud.
As even the IPCC has been backing down on their estimate of the sensitivity of the atmosphere to a doubling of CO2, it is clear that their alarmist reports are not all that alarming. It can be argued that, as doubling is out of the question, the CO2 increases we will see in the next hundred years will be effectively undetectable in light of the normal cycles and solar activity that truly commands our climate.