Quote:Because one Watt/m2 is one Watt/m2? A Watt describes a know quantity, one joule per second, and one square meter is a square that measures one meter on its sides. If the supposed 2.64Watts/m2 increase from AGW is different from the 2Watt/m2 increase from solar radiance something is wrong with the universe.
Okay. So, then, would you care to come up with a guess as to why nearly every major scientific organisation with authority on the subject don't think an increase in the Sun's output is primarily causing the already observed warming on Earth, much less the projected climate change in the future?
(The NOAA site was offline when I wrote this, but a search on Google for "Earth System Research Laboratory, R/GMD" should bring it up as the second entry. Access through cache. Has some spiffy equations as well, I hadn't realized the IPCC had changed its CO2 forcing. I amend my heat retained due to carbon to 5.35*ln(382/280)=1.66W/m2.)