1/7. Christopher wrote, "Energy balances, not heat, not a flux." Flux just means flow or movement. "Energy flux" is synonymous with "movement of energy." Inbound solar radiation is a flux. So is outbound LW IR. Definitions: 1. https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=flux… 2. https://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Flux.html…

2/2. The spreadsheet does calculations. That's all. https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1779743361932403088x.com/ncdave4life/st Most climate alarmists uncritically accept estimates of basic climate parameters, like TCR, ECS, ERF, radiative imbalance, etc. without bothering to check them for consistency. That's a big mistake. The result is that often they're like the White Queen, believing many contradictory things, except that, unlike the White Queen, they don't know it. The spreadsheet makes it easier to check your assumptions for (in)consistency.

⸨1/2⸩ CERES satellites can't measure Earth's energy balance (a/k/a ERB, Earth's radiation balance). CERES instruments point down. They only (sparsely!) sample outgoing radiation fluxes. They don't measure incoming radiation. We've been over this before https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1701675774812598705x.com/ncdave4life/st

What it shows is that there was no data from which OHC to 2000 meters could estimated in the 1950s-60s. That means those early OHC figures are just guesses. (That might be why, unlike Cheng, Meyssignac et al don't show any graphs of OHC estimates extended back before about 1995.)

/. That graph shows an estimate of a total of about 500 ZJ added to the the upper 2 km of the oceans since 1955. Aside: Actually, the first 50 years of the graph are nothing but guesses. OHC is estimated by models, informed by temperature measurements, made by Argo floats. The first Argo float was deployed in 2000. They didn't reach 3000 units (i.e., one float per 120,000 km²) until 2007. So the part of their graph prior to about 2005 is 100% codswallop. The kindest thing you can say about it is that it's a plausible guess, consistent with (but you can't say based upon!) convenience samples of sea surface temperatures. It is not data, in any sense. But never mind that, because that graph also has another problem...

How many times are you going to repeat the same tripe? What "imbalance" 1k average in and out. Fluxes will never balance in and out of the planet. Ever. Energy balances, not heat, not a flux. Climate science loves to play fast and loose with fluxes.

⸨2/2⸩ However, there are clues from which estimates of ERB can be derived. https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1683396249666322432x.com/ncdave4life/st I created a spreadsheet to make it easy for you to calculate your very own estimate of Earth's radiation imbalance: https://sealevel.info/radiative_imbalance_calc.htm…