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I recall no such statements, though it was a pretty widespread misconception early on. It was generally assumed that greenhouses worked by trapping IR radiation. It was what I was taught in high school in the late 1960s. So it would be correct to say that CO2 and other GHGs in the atmosphere work the way we used to think glass greenhouses worked. It's why the process was named as it was.
But it certainly is not a position that anyone conversant on the topic would make these days. It is most certainly not what I have read Mamooth contend ever since I got here. So, Mylar, what's your point? Are you unhappy that you aren't being allowed to argue against a straw man of your own creation?
Greenhousese work because the block conduction and convection to the outside atmosphere. If your claim that the glass in a greenhouse absorbs IR were true, then you would, in effect, be saying that glass thermometers are inherently inaccurate. Is that what you are saying?
By the way, in the late 60's the greenhouse effect was not even a blip on the radar insofar as primary education went...even if you were taking what might have then been called AP physics. Caught lying again...feel free to go to the SAT of the period and look for anything that might reference the greenhouse effect. You are one of the worst liars on this board...