[hoosierham]

Probably very important is the texture and color of the Earth's surface beneath those clouds.

For instance,snow reflects the sunlight rather than absorbing itas would a plowed field or macadam road.Visible light and even some ultraviotet produce heat on being absorbed by an object,then that object will radiate in the infrared.The Earth's atmosphere tends to block infrared,and far more so when cloudy.That is why infrared astronomy has vastly better results using a satellite above our atmosphere.

Regardless,the AlGore Global Warming Tax and Carbon Credits is a criminal enterprise.

[editor-surveyor]

WRT “the greenhouse effect,” what is on the ground is irrelevant.

The greenhouse effect has been proven to be fiction. It violates the laws of physics. The atmosphere is a shield preventing the penetration of a huge percentage of the sun’s radiation.