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Old 15th-February-2008, 04:16 AM
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That is simply not true, In fact, the Mars rover Spirit even found that the infrared absorption of carbon dioxide varies versus density (height) and used the data to calculate the temperature versus altitude on Mars. I don't know how you can keep denying that CO2 absorbs infrared, thus warming it's surroundings. It's common sense. If I have some factor(s) that warms a gas, then everything ambient to that gas will be warmed.
And furthermore, that infrared absorption of CO2 versus altitude data is part of a global climate model for Mars. How could one possibly attempt to characterize complex systems *without* models. Tell me that.
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