David Springer – you’ve been pointed in the right direction to investigate for yourself so stop avoiding my question.. It is your claim that visible light heats matter, prove it. Show and tell. Because, if you can’t, then you have no weather on your Earth. And if you have no weather what the heck do you know about climate?
What you claiming this all and singular consistently fail to appreciate is you don’t even have a junior school level sense of the physical world around us. You don’t know the differences between solids, liquids and gases and certainly don’t have any sense of the differences in scale between a gamma ray and radio wave, a particle of visible light and a photon of heat or the difference in their effects on meeting matter; between Light giving sight in the conversion of visible light to nerve impulses and photosynthesis in the creation of sugars in the conversion to chemical energy and the effects of actual heat energy, thermal infrared which physically moves the whole molecules of matter into vibration heating it.
You’ve been drip fed the line that visible light/shortwave is a great energy macro powerful and you believe it because you have had no reason to doubt it, until now. Now, I’m asking you to relate your beliefs to the actual physical world around us. Tell me how visible light from the Sun physically heats water and land which is what it needs to do to get our weather, without which we would have no winds which first come about from the intense heating of land and ocean at the equator.
This is your claim and I am trying to point out that your (generic) concepts of our actual physical world around are impossible in practice. Put your hand into a fire and feel the HEAT. That’s the energy it takes to HEAT matter, to put matter into vibrational states, kinetic, to raise matter’s temperature, to cook your dinner, to raise the temperature of ocean and land, to create our massive winds and weather systems. Show and tell how shortwave from the Sun heats matter, heats the molecules of water of the ocean and the rocks and soil of the land you’re standing on to achieve this.
In the real world what I am telling you is bog standard basic physics, but none of you can understand the difference between http://infraredheaters2.tripod.com/ and http://www.littlegreenhouse.com/guide3.shtml
You say the second does the work of the first in your claim “shortwave in longwave out”.
You have given the properties and processes of thermal energy, heat, to light.
You have to tell me the physics of your “shortwave in” heating the Earth.
For pity’s sake.., ask those who taught you, ask each other. Don’t ignore this, don’t avoid it.
