On Mar 14, 12:24 am, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
There are some very fair comments in there yet all you do is seek to
insult.

2. Greenhouse gases heat the atmosphere and preserve life on earth.

How the **** do inert gasses do that?

More trolling from ClimateLiar...

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I think you'll find inert gases are more yer Helium (He), Neon (Ne), Argon
(Ar), Krypton (Kr), Xenon (Xe), and Radon (Rn) than yer greenhouse gases

These days they prefer the title Noble gases after it was found
possible to react them with fluorine under extreme conditions to get
some pretty wacky compounds.

such as methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). But I'll leave it to you
armchair scientists to decide about "the facts"

It is perhaps worth pointing out here that it requires a gas molecule
with at least 3 atoms like CO2, H2O, N2O, NO2, O3 and CH4 to have a
significant absorption band in the right part of the infra red
spectrum.

The bulk of the atmosphere is N2 and O2 being diatomic do not have
significant visible or IR absorption.

It is worth pointing out here that the idea that the Earth is warmer
than you would expect from basic thermodynamic balance of suns
radiation dates back to the Swedish chemist Arrhenius and since he
published his paper "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon
the Temperature of the Ground" in 1896 (that is *not* a typo) you can
hardly accuse him of jumping on the GW bandwagon:

http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/Arrhenius.html

Regards,
Martin Brown