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You've messed up some numbers: you have solar at 240 at the sun, but 343 lower down William M. Connolley (talk) 21:49, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for telling me. It is actually the other way around. I will fix right now:) Zoo Fari 21:58, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, good job on the graphic but I'm confused by the numbers. It says total incident energy is 343 W m^-2 but then there's 103 reflected and 240 reflected as IR radiation. That means a total of 343 W m^-2 is reflected so the earth doesn't receive any energy from the sun...? --131.111.1.66 (talk) 20:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to make the same observation. If total energy out equals total energy in how is the sun creating an increase in earth's temperature? 60.242.66.215 (talk) 07:45, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is an inbalance, enough to warm - but it is small by comparison - 0.5 or 1 W/m2 from memory William M. Connolley (talk) 18:26, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]