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Thermodynamically correct but CO2 making our atmosphere scatter solar radiation internally and increasing total absorption is a much larger effect. I try to im
by wnkrshm 4y ago
Thermodynamically correct but CO2 making our atmosphere scatter solar radiation internally and increasing total absorption is a much larger effect.
I try to imagine it like a fog: all kinds of radiation makes it through to the ground but then the heat from that radiation cannot simply radiate into space, because the sky is all dense fog and scatters in the infrared. We're effectively making a more diffuse lamp out of Earth.
Of course, if your solar array projected area as seen from the sun is approaching the Earth's own projected area, then you're overdoing it again.