LOL.....if this isn't the final exclamation point on this entire thread, I don't know what is............
The New āConsensusā: 97 Percent Of Americans Arenāt Worried About Global Warming
JC.........Billy............Ian.............FlacalTenn............Frank.........Todd.......could you be laughing any harder??

Nobody cares about this shit..........at this point, this whole forum is our playground!!!

I just saw back radiation causes higher temperatures. Huh. I didn't know CO2 was a sun
jc- do you bake Christmas cookies?
if you do, or have ever baked cookies, did you just put in the cookie pan then turn on the oven and wait ten minutes? or did you wait until the oven preheated to the right temperature?
the atmosphere has been preheated. it gives off heat just like the sides of an oven. the heatsink has been charged and it radiates in all directions. think about the basics first, before you contemplate what a stable amount of greenhouse gases do to the equilibrium. and then an increasing amount of GHGs. you will come to the inescapable conclusion that GHGs heat the atmosphere, primarily at the surface/atmosphere boundary. it is a solid, physics based mechanism supported by massive amounts of technically measured evidence.
the greenhouse effect is real! but dont stop there or you will become a chicken little like crick, screaming that the sky is falling or the planet is burning up.
what else is happening? water vapour, the main GHG is transporting energy from the surface via convection and phase change latent heat, and carrying it aloft. in a much grander scale, conduction and convection are orders of magnitude more efficient at moving energy that radiation is. subtle changes in convection and clouds simply dwarf the tiny changes caused by CO2. and they cannot be incorporated into climate models except in estimated general way. the IPCC admits that they can't do clouds, and the error estimates swamp the tiny contribution of CO2.
there are lots of things wrong with the theory that CO2 controls the climate, but altogether denying that CO2 has a warming influence at the surface is not one of them.