Comments on the Paper `A new basic 1-dimensional 1-layer model obtains excellent agreement with the observed Earth temperature' by Rainer Link and Horst-Joachim L\"udecke

Abstract

In our comments on the paper of Link and L\"udecke we document that these authors used rather improper quotations of our paper. They also argued on the basis of false claims regarding our mathematical and physical description of both the global energy balance model of Schneider and Mass and the Dines-type two-layer energy balance model for the Earth-atmosphere system. They completely disregarded the respective literature. They claimed excellent agreement between their predicted Earth's surface temperature and the observed one even though they only reproduced the temperature by an inverse application of the power law of Stefan and Boltzmann. They also claimed that their result for the increase in the Earth's surface temperature of about 1.1 K due to the doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration is in good agreement with the IPCC value if no feedback is considered. However, beside the fact that this result is not based on model predictions, it also disagrees with the definition of the anthropogenic radiative forcing as can be found not only in the respective literature, but also in various IPCC reports.