Provide, please, the scientific rationale that supports the belief that carbon dioxide does “trap” heat in the atmosphere.
Or is this something like the “phlogiston” theory that was so popular before the discovery of oxygen?
Because apparently some people have no clear idea of where oxygen comes from.
The primordial atmosphere of earth had NO oxygen, though there was an ample supply of methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor, plus smaller amounts of sulfur dioxide, and the ‘noble gases’ like krypton, neon, xenon and argon. There was also some helium, but most of that escaped to outer space. Radon goes through continual breakdown by radioactive decay.
Bogus science which justifies raising taxes . How convenient.
Actually, the Earth acts pretty much like a black body. Making the earth whiter (the albedo) doesn’t lower temperature much because it reduces both absorbtion and emission.
It is true that Carbon dioxide does reduce thermal emission, but so does water, and there is a bunch more water in the air than there is C02.
“Provide, please, the scientific rationale that supports the belief that carbon dioxide does “trap” heat in the atmosphere.”
There ya go. There is no rationale. There is no common sense, there are no brains; there is nothing but control, destruction and greed.
Some published books give credit to one of the most humble life forms for "terraforming" the place:
Stromatolites from cyanobacteria.
Some of the fossils are 3 billion years old, but the structures these bacteria build are still growing in different places. Shark Bay, AU is famous for them.