Trakar
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I won't argue a paper I haven't read, but the concept of long-free pathways vs short-free pathways is not, in itself, dependent upon what re-absorbs the CO2 emitted photons, it is that it alters the shortest mean free-path to exiting the earth's environment for the surface emitted thermal IR. Lengthening the mean free-path extends the persistence of that energy in the system and increases the likelihood of it being absorbed and re-emitted by something else in the environment adding still more length to the mean free-path and increasing the residence of the energy.
Here. A formal discussion on the mean free path. I am afraid that argument doesn't hold up as a mechanism for warming either.
Mean Free Path Length of Photons in the Earth's Atmosphere
This paper is a joke.
It has never been published in any mainstream journal, for obvious and apparent reasons, it is littered with unsupported assertions and errors. arguing an unpublished fringe pseudoscience monograph by a retired biologist who is trying to BS about his quantum quakery confusions regarding LoTD is not a path I am interested in engaging upon.