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water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas, despite liberal propaganda impugning CO2 and methane
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Like a botanical greenhouse, it insulates the planet, but in a different way.
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gas molecules absorb some of the heat radiating from the ground (see infrared radiation), so that it all doesn't escape into outer space
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A gardener's greenhouse simply traps warm air inside the building.
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The effect has been compared to that of the glass roof and walls of a greenhouse, although the process is different
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did you even look at what you reverted?
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if it's good enough for the main oage it seems its good enough for this article
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→Bibliography: changed to "References", for convention
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removed extra section
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please, please, please use good sources for your information
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unnecessary quotation marks
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July 25, 2007
Thermodynamics says that any body with a temperature above absolute zero will radiate its energy away.
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Planck's law,
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let's not use fancy words
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who calls it "global warming"? That is such a politically charged term.
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results when gas molecules reduce the escape of infrared radiation into outer space
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ref: IR radiation is the heat that we sense being radiated from a hot surface
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Runaway greenhouse effect
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March 20, 2007
move sentence up, no references
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Complete rewrite from a physics major - okay, I dropped out, but I took some courses . . .
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not "heat" per se, but infrared radiation - the same kind of rays McDonald's uses to keep the fries warm
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