Originally Posted By: paul
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That is why concern with the greenhouse effect
focuses on outgoing "longwave" radiation.


look at all of the heat being absorbed by the atmosphere from
the 0.7 - 4.0 range above.

don't focus on that because that is the cause for most of the
outgoing radiation from the 4.0 - 30.0 range , yes ,
we need only focus only on the effects after the cause.

but never the cause.


Focus on what we can change, CO2, which is the 'cause' of the extra greenhouse heating.


Water does most of the absorbing, for incoming wavelengths
(blue, on the left, in the previous graph). But....

It's that bigger CO2 absorption 'hump' (just right of 10 microns, at about 14 microns
...that overlaps the 'declining' H2O absorption), which is the causal factor we can control.

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