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Apersonofinterest 9 points ago +9 / -0

Regarding CO2 Warming:

Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth's Upper Atmosphere

“Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats,” explains James Russell of Hampton University, SABER’s principal investigator. “When the upper atmosphere (or ‘thermosphere’) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.”

If you read only climate change related articles, they portray CO2 as a warming agent.

For the three day period, March 8th through 10th, the thermosphere absorbed 26 billion kWh of energy. Infrared radiation from CO2 and NO, the two most efficient coolants in the thermosphere, re-radiated 95% of that total back into space.

There is no evidence that a rise in CO2 precipitates a rise in temperature.

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phzoe [S] 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's true. Only radiatively active gases can "emit" to space. 99+% of the atmosphere can't cool by radiation.