I would like to revisit my post Glass Houses vs Thermodynamics with an analogy.

In the above mentioned post, I referenced the paper by Dr Gehard Gerlich and Dr Ralf Tscheuschner discussed on physicsforums.com.

I would like to present the following analogy to assist in understanding the conclusion of the good German physicists:

Thermodynamic Ping Pong

When playing ping pong, I serve the ball to my opponent who hits it back, I then hit it back and we repeat.  Consider if I was ‘the ability of the atmosphere to restrain the heat caused by CO2′.  Now my opponent hits and I return, we bounce the ball back and forth.

What if my opponent throws another ball into the mix?  Can I hit it back?  Maybe one more, but as my opponent adds more and more balls, eventually I will reach my ability to hit them back.

That is how escaping energy works in the atmosphere, CO2 is able to repel the first ball or two but not the subsequent balls being added to the system.

CO2 has a limited ability to restrict the amount of energy leaving the environment, once that restrictive capability is reached, any further energy added to the system is free to leave.

This is why the German physicists argue that the climatologists’ model is flawed, it simply violates the laws of thermodynamics.