RollingThunder
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Of course you don't.I keep explaining this to you, and you STILL keep getting it wrong.
It's certainly not helping your claims of intelligence or honesty any.
As I've told you, whenever I've asked for proof of CO2 being a greenhouse gas, Roxy pointed to Tyndall's experiment. No others. When I read the paper myself, I found it proved no such thing.
Get it now, or are you going to keep being stupid and dishonest?
Considering there has been ample evidence that CO IS a greenhouse gas since 1861 - no, I don't see your point.
From the OP:
It is immediately apparent that Tyndall did, at no time during his research, measure any radiative absorption. Tyndall's "absorption" measurements are revealed, by his method, to actually be measurements of opacity. I refer you to the Frontispiece of the article reproduced here. Nowhere does Tyndall account for the proportion of opacity due to reflection, nor is any attempt made to simultaneously measure both opacity and emission in order to determine what proportion of opacity is due to absorption, in spite of the significant reflection of visible radiation by chlorine gas, which Tyndall actually handled. This is probably a fundamental misunderstanding on Tyndall's part because he uses the terms "opacity" and "absorbing power" interchangably throughout his work.
Can you refute that? No one has tried to so far.
Both you and the dufus who wrote the OP are clueless. BTW, the guy has only a Bachelors degree in geology, not physics or any area of climate science, and by his own admission: "For the past ten years, I've worked in the petroleum industry". Your 'source' is this nimrod's blog.
What neither he nor you seem able to understand is the fact that the atmosphere is transparent to visible light, but mostly opaque to infrared. Infrared "opacity" comes from absorption bands of H2O, CO2, CH4 and other molecules. What do you idiots think "opacity" means anyway? It means that the energy in the sunlight is not passing through the atmosphere but rather is being absorbed within the atmosphere. Jeez but you guys are stupid.