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Above is an early "Energy Budget" diagram for Earth published by NASA. The only trouble is that when we quantify the 51% of solar energy shown as being absorbed by land and oceans we get about one-eighth of the solar constant, resulting in a figure of about 168w/m^2 that could not achieve a global mean temperature above 233K which is -40°C. Yes, that is a minus sign, and yes

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