Greenhouse effect:
Wikipedia said:
The existence of the greenhouse effect, while not named as such, was proposed by Joseph Fourier in 1824.[8] The argument and the evidence were further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838. In 1856 Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated that the warming effect of the sun is greater for air with water vapour than for dry air, and the effect is even greater with carbon dioxide. She concluded that "An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature..."[9][10] John Tyndall was the first to measure the infrared absorption and emission of various gases and vapors. From 1859 onwards, he showed that the effect was due to a very small proportion of the atmosphere, with the main gases having no effect, and was largely due to water vapor, though small percentages of hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide had a significant effect.[11] The effect was more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, who made the first quantitative prediction of global warming due to a hypothetical doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.[12] However, the term "greenhouse" was not used to refer to this effect by any of these scientists; the term was first used in this way by Nils Gustaf Ekholm in 1901.
Atmospheric trapping of heat by some gases including carbon dioxide and methane, colloquially know these days as the Greenhouse Effect, is a thing!!
Recently (since the Industrial Revolution kicked off) it is the thing that is now rapidly pushing the atmosphere and oceans away from the norm that we have experienced in recent centuries. Hence,
anthropogenic, or human caused. There are effects such as ocean acidification and alteration to weather patterns that have been predicted and which we are seeing play out (you would have to be blind, infected by
or financially incentivized to deny it). Various tipping points have been predicted as a consequence of these initially gradual, but accelerating changes. Affects on some biomes have already been drastic. These tipping points represents massive risks to life as we know it, and no amount of technological mitigation can prevent them. Maybe some means of space-based blocking could do it, but that in itself is extremely risky. Compounding this (and often linked to it) are the deadly effects of pollution, overfishing and factory aquaculture, habitat loss, oil-based farming practices, war, etc.
Scientifically none of this is controversial. When scientists apply the same climate modeling methods to other planets and their moons it does not make people upset. None of what I have just outlined is not fully comprehensible to an average grade 9 student in any country with a quality public education system (that is not a given in the West, and some nations are deliberately moving backwards).
So in anno 2022 to throw up flack like "
Perhaps global warming is happening due to heat being released into our atmosphere and is not primarily driven GHG emissions" can only be understood as willful ignorance or deliberately spreading disinformation. There is
no scientific, moral, or other equivalence or symmetry between the consensus view and opponents of change. Unfortunately those delusions are promoted by a brain dead media with built in ulterior motives (follow the money; e.g., NBC is owned by GE, a major US defense contractor aka arms dealer).
I am now obliged to declare this thread as a distraction and a waste of space. Your time would be far better spent scrapping your vanity pickup truck and getting off a McDonalds spec diet.
"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"
. Energy cannons that can radiate heat off into space.