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The greenhouse effect, for one. It's essentially the blackbody effect along with spectral properties of constituent atmospheric gases.

• merpnderp 7y ago
  This is a straight up mathematical measurement and would account for ~.2C warming per decade and is regarded as an uninteresting question in climate science. The actual questions being asked are what feedbacks are there that would drastically increase/decrease this number.
  • dls2016 7y ago
    Uninteresting... settled... tomayto... tomahto... If you dismiss anything uninteresting as no longer being climate science, then we end up in a no-true-Scotsman loop. I was responding to the question "what climate change science is settled", not "what are active research topics".
    • merpnderp 7y ago
      I wasn't really disagreeing with you, only pointing out that CO2 energy absorption has been settled science of over a hundred years and really isn't considered climate science. It's just basic physics.