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To: driftdiver

The only gas that reflects IR energy really well is water vapor, not CO2. Heck, even argon is much better as a supposed greenhouse gas than CO2 and there’s more than twice the amount of it in the atmosphere than CO2.


25 posted on 07/28/2011 8:17:12 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Wherever did you get the idea that Argon is a greenhouse gas? It isn’t — and neither is oxygen or nitrogen.


37 posted on 07/28/2011 9:36:53 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: Jack Hydrazine
The only gas that reflects IR energy really well is water vapor, not CO2.

Both CO2 and H2O absorb IR because of their asymmetric molecules. That's one reason why CO2 lasers produce infrared.

60 posted on 07/29/2011 4:10:48 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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