The first global warming theory was by Svante Arrhenius, one of the greatest chemists in history, and was far from meaningless.
It's very simple, CO2 is a radiative chemical, and it's presence in the atmosphere decreases the total albedo of the Earth, because radiative gasses will emit back 50% of all the radiation that they absorb towards the earth, with is then either again turned into heat or leaves or is again absorbed by greenhouse gases.
In the end, CO2 decreases global albedo and decreases surface radiative efficiency thus leading to higher temperatures.
There is no debate here. This is a combination of basic optics and basic chemistry that was figured out over a hundred years ago, the only thing that was left to know was the extent, which is what these companies hid.
You can very simply make home experiments to replicate this at home, it's really a high school level concept and there is no debate to be had at all, it's very far from meaningless.
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The first global warming theory was by Svante Arrhenius, one of the greatest chemists in history, and was far from meaningless.
It's very simple, CO2 is a radiative chemical, and it's presence in the atmosphere decreases the total albedo of the Earth, because radiative gasses will emit back 50% of all the radiation that they absorb towards the earth, with is then either again turned into heat or leaves or is again absorbed by greenhouse gases.
In the end, CO2 decreases global albedo and decreases surface radiative efficiency thus leading to higher temperatures.
There is no debate here. This is a combination of basic optics and basic chemistry that was figured out over a hundred years ago, the only thing that was left to know was the extent, which is what these companies hid.
You can very simply make home experiments to replicate this at home, it's really a high school level concept and there is no debate to be had at all, it's very far from meaningless.