XPost: alt.global-warming, sci.skeptic   
   From: sam@spade.invalid   
      
   Attila  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:45:21 -0800, Samuel Spade   
   > >Attila  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> A greenhouse gas (GHG) is a gas in Earth's atmosphere that   
   > >> traps heat, acting like the glass in a greenhouse to keep   
   > >> the planet warm enough to support life by absorbing and   
   > >> re-radiating infrared energy (heat) emitted from the   
   > >> surface,   
   > >   
   > >Not completely true. The "greenhouse effect" in a real greenhouse is   
   > >when IR radiated from inside the warm greenhouse is reflected by the   
   > >glass back into the greenhouse.  CO2 retains the earth's heat not by   
   > >reflecting IR radiated by the earth, but by absorption and re-emission   
   > >of the IR in all directions, including down.   
   > >   
   > >Reflection and absorption/re-emission are 2 different things.   
   > >   
   > >Whether it's a popular misconception or inane detail, calling the CO2   
   > >effect "greenhouse warming" is misleading.   
   > >   
   > >Now you will be in the know when others babble. YWIA.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >>  with major examples including Carbon Dioxide (CO2),   
   > >> Methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O), released by both   
   > >> natural processes and human activities like burning fossil   
   > >> fuels and agriculture.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >PS. It's good manners to include attributions for material you   
   > >copy-n-paste.   
   >   
   > It was an IA comment from Google.  There is no actual source   
   > to attribute.  It had better wording than I could create.   
      
   That's fine.  You should have just said that.  There's even a URL for   
   the query.  If you copy 'n paste without attribution, you are implicitly   
   saying they are your own words.   
      
   Don't be offended, you are not nearly the worst around here.   
      
      
   > I never said that ws the total Greenhouse Effect.   
   >   
   > It was in response to:   
   >   
   > "CO2 is not a "Gre   
      
      
      
   > A part you clipped.   
      
   Yes I did.   
      
   I was responding to your google material, not a previous poster.  My   
   point was only that the CO2 "greenhouse warming" effect is not the way a   
   real greenhouse works, contrary to google and popular belief.   
      
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