With all due respect, Scientific American took a wackjob turn a number of years ago promoting among other things, the now scientifically well discredited CO2 global warming agenda. I haven’t made up my mind on this issue except to say that Scientific American has degenerated to a very unreliable politically driven fish wrapper.
Are you aware that regular glass absorbs a significant % of UV light going through it? In fact quartz has to be used in casings to permit UV in significant % to get through.
Again let’s use some peer reviewed citations to back this assertion.
I don’t know one way or the other but the article in Scientific American was quoting the research done at Stony Brook University and that explains it better.