Earth Shine
Those beautiful temperature maps need calibration. That is done by sending up balloons. The satellites come up with a temperature for the various atmosphere layers, and this is checked with the actual temperatures. You can come up with a calibration curve over time, of the adjustments required.
Had the carbon thing been real, I would have read a lot about the difficulty of calibration. The carbon would have interfered with the measurement of temperature at the surface of the earth. As the carbon dioxide went up, we would have heard all sorts of moaning.
Nothing. I haven't asked them, but I'm sure the calibration curve is flat, ie no effect from carbon.
The other thing that is easy to do is calculate the total amount of heat energy radiated out into space, per layer. I am guessing that the surface is less than 1%, and 99% is from the upper layers.
Exciting physics that can be done
The Dead Hand of the Church of NASA is suppressing all new atmospheric physics, since they have the only direct connection to The Truth. You can imagine that they'll never budge. That leaves out the US for doing stuff. Forget Canada because of Trudeau, and Doug Ford is too cheap.
All my hopes lie with Denmark. Surely they can smell something fishy....
Cheap Physics
Get the calibration curves from the earth shine people. Make the calculation of total heat energy radiated out per layer.
More expensive
Recalculate balloon data. Review the old laser data from the 70's.
Very Expensive
A new big balloon with lasers that looks at convection cells. Measure heat flow.
Glorious
A permanent station that regularly sends up a balloon-assisted drone. There are many questions, such as the role of water vapour. More work in the heart of equatorial convection cells.
fin.
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