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To: Brumar89 who wrote (69085)	3/19/2016 9:33:07 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (2) of 86350

The Earth's atmosphere is a porous box in terms of transmitting energy back to space. For over a hundred years there has been an increasing energy imbalance here where more energy is stored within the atmosphere and the Earth's surface (land and especially the oceans). Energy balance of Earth Carbon dioxide is a very strong absorber of thermal infrared energy with wavelengths longer than 12-13 micrometers, which means that increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide partially “close” the atmospheric window. In other words, wavelengths of outgoing thermal infrared energy that our atmosphere’s most abundant greenhouse gas—water vapor—would have let escape to space are instead absorbed by carbon dioxide. eoearth.org

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