as you know , I have been saying that CO2 is a cooling gas
for awhile now , that shouldn't be conspired as automatic gainsaying simply because the video shows that CO2 is a cooling gas.
and I wouldn't say that I am a denialist , more of a realist
because I don't care which way the cards fall , I read what the cards say.
But seriously, you seem to ignore the difference between the incoming radiation (short wave, on the left of the graph), and the outgoing, long-wave (over three microns, on the right of the graph) radiation,
which is where the 2/3 of surface (and nighttime) heating comes from.
how can you say that , when I am saying that the atmosphere
will experience a proportionate amount of cooling because
the incoming IR will be trapped by the CO2 and therefore
will not be re-emitted / reflected by the surface because the
IR gets trapped in the atmosphere and never reaches the surface.
any amount of IR that is outgoing from the surface due to
the heat from visible light will also be proportionately
trapped by the CO2 in the atmosphere so even the
nighttime heating will diminish by the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere.
this will all cool the earths surface not warm it.
