Global warming

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X_4AD_84 Wrote:Plus, the vast amount of development last century also led to massive albedo modifications as well as the establishment of systems that radiate and convect waste heat. Motors, electrical conductors, electronic components, heck, even microwave transmissions interacting with H20 in the atmosphere. All of it adds heat to the boundary layer.

You bet ya. Development paves over a big CO2 sink, plant life. Waste heat is of course a manifestation of entropy. We humans are expert entropy creators ... unless some of us do stuff to become net carbon negative like use home made compost, plant trees, do everything to refrain from using cars, etc.

Motors: Yeah, those can be a bitch, release heat of entropy, create NOx[from sparking], O3, etc.  Although compared to fossil fuel combustion, I think that's a negligible contribution. Internal combustion/diesel vehicles create ground level O3 [a plant life poison , along with animal life] , NOx, of course CO2, waste heat, and soot.

Now:

1. Does microwave radiation interact with H2O?  I'm guessing you're right although I haven't seen this, besides microwave ovens , so yeah, I suppose so.

2. Electric conductors:  Is this power lines? I know electricity flow creates magnetic fields. I'm not sure here to be honest.

3. Electric components. I'd say sure wrt resistors. Those convert electric energy to waste heat. I'm not sure wrt transistors/capacitors/inductors/etc. I'd guess you're right since those aren't 100% efficient. I just don't have a definitive source there. Sorry.