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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (18943)	12/26/2007 9:21:59 PM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36921

Given that you think a greenhouse is heated by modulated convection, how the hell are you going to understand anything else. He didn't say that, you are putting words in his mouth. You did not get the difference. Nor the fact that the so called green house gas is not a direct greenhouse effect, that is there with any gas, any planet with any atmosphere will have the greenhouse effect to one degree or another. That is the gas is not stopping convection. I may be putting words in his mouth as well so I will say no more.

To: neolib who wrote (18943)	12/26/2007 9:59:23 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

do you always have to be a lying sack of ear2earfeces. you took a line that was a summations of ideas expressed and stupidly attempted to express it was incorrect taken out of context. Read below to see why saying neolib is not a lying sack of ear2earfeces has been debunked again. Referenced from a link from the site you lie about is this. For the stupid like neolib AKA ear2earfeces an even fuller explanation making clear that a greenhouse works by modulating convention to trap heated air that was heated by conduction and not infrared radiation. gi.alaska.edu If you've ever heard an explanation of how a greenhouse works, it was most likely based on the differing transparency of glass to solar and thermal infrared radiation. Glass is transparent to most of the wavelengths of solar radiation, but is effectively opaque to the much longer (thermal infrared) wavelengths emitted by the plants and soil inside the greenhouse. Solar radiation can get into the greenhouse, where it is absorbed by and heats whatever is inside the greenhouse. The longer wavelengths emitted by the heated surfaces cannot get out through the glass, however, so heat keeps building up -- at least that's how the conventional explanation goes. Polyethylene greenhouses, however, seem to work just about as well as glass ones -- and polyethylene is nearly as translucent to thermal infrared radiation as it is to solar radiation. So why does a greenhouse get so hot on a sunny day?