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Originally Posted by cbacba
golly gee, you mean to say that absorption varies with how much matter (CO2) is present at an altitude? duh!
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So, you admit global warming due to CO2 is true. It's about time. Cbacba said, "Absorption varies with how much matter is present at an altitude." That is about as fine a layman's explanation of global climate change as I can think of. You did it, you have explained it. And that heat absorbed is warming it's surroundings, namely the planet earth, the land and the sea and the sky.
We pump CO2 into the atmosphere, like the burning of gasoline:
C8H18 + O2 --> H2O + CO2
See that CO2 on the right (output) side of the equation, that is "matter (CO2) present at an altitude" as you say. And those molecules near the glaciers will warm those glaciers, and those now-cooler CO2 molecules will absorb heat from CO2 layers a little further up, and so on and so forth.
Great to see you understand climate change now.