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  simple help

  I have to agree with mihan overall.  I am taking that exact basic weather/climate class this semester, different university and book though.

  Though going along with the 'faulty metaphor' in an attempt to help out Mr. Hutchison I think I can offer some simple help to get the brain wrapped around it.  The gases in the atmosphere, CO2 and H2O, ARE the glass in the Greenhouse Theory.  So in the second response, 'Now, if you were to add a gas to the greenhouse which slowed the rate of escape of heat through the windows. . ."  adding gas to the greenhouse is the wrong way to think about it.  It would be more like making the glass thicker and just as transparent as the original glass, thus allowing in the same amount of energy but increasing the insulation factor (the R value like in the fiberglass in your attic) which keeps more energy in thus increasing the temp of the green house.  So more CO2 = thicker glass in the greenhouse metaphor.On RenewAmerica columnist claims posted 3 years ago 11 Responses