I’ve never understood the appeal of the greenhouse analogy when discussing atmospheric gases.  Greenhouses are physical, sealed encasements.  We all learned in physics that pressure times volume divided by temperature is a constant.  If the pressure increases, so must the temperature for a fixed volume, such as a greenhouse.  The idea being for greenhouses that the increase in pressure is due to the increasing amount of energy the Sun sends into the greenhouse that is trapped from escaping.  Easy enough. 

The atmosphere though is not fixed at all, it routinely expands and contracts as the climate scientists will tell us.  Out of one side of their mouths, they say that warming expands the atmosphere increasing the drag on our satellites, while out of the other side of their mouths, they state that atmospheric gases have a greenhouse effect.  This is not a consistent view of the atmosphere.

Some may wish to argue here that the atmosphere is correctly viewed as a contained system due to gravity.  It just is simply not true that Earth’s gravity has much of a pull on molecules at the edge of space.  The kinetic energy of the heated particles will be far greater than the effect of the pull of gravity.  Besides, we are talking about radiated heat escaping, not the particles themselves.  The atmosphere is an open system.

Two German physicists, Dr. Gerhard Gerlich and Dr. Ralf Tscheuschner, have released a paper debunking the AGW theory which discusses not only the false analogy of greenhouse gases, but also details that the AGW theory violates the first and second laws of thermodynamics.

Physical laws are not of the “thou shalt not” nature, they are “thy cannot” in nature.  The laws of thermodynamics must be obeyed, and if your theory violates the laws of thermodynamics then your theory needs to be reconsidered.

Anyone have any idea what may be contributing heat unaccountable to the Sun into the seas and ground, and thus eventually into the atmosphere?

I have a thought:

The above graph is true to scale, one pixel equals one kilometer.  The blue pixels represent the average thickness of the crust under the oceans of 5-10 kilometers.  The brown pixels represent the average thickness of the continental crust of 35-70 kilometers.  The oceanic crust is properly represented as 70% of the surface.