Forests and carbon capture

[Epsilon]

Edit:Sorry Epsilon, I forgot to answer your question. Yes, I believe in the laws of Thermodynamics.  I also believe in this little thing called solar output. Want to go for another round?

Yes, actually. Thanks for anticipating my next question!

Do you acknowledge that an object which absorbs more energy than it radiates will increase in temperature, yes or no?

I suppose it would be inconvenient for me to point out that solar output has been decreasing over the last five years... but, yeah, I'll point that out anyway.

We're currently at the low end of the 11-year cycle. If it was only solar output that drives terrestrial temperatures, then overall average temperatures should have been dropping over the last half-decade. They haven't.

Now, now, Rob. Let's not jump the gun. We're still waiting for Ravjik to agree with some basic junior high physics. I'm certainly he'll be along any minute now so we can continue to discuss the science of this. We'll get to the variations in solar irradiance over the last seventy years once we've established how exactly solar irradiance effects global temperatures.