Greenhouse gases only interact with specific wavelengths of light. A lot of sunlight comes in as visible or ultraviolet light, mostly passing through those gase

Greenhouse gases only interact with specific wavelengths of light. A lot of sunlight comes in as visible or ultraviolet light, mostly passing through those gases. It hits the surface of the Earth and is absorbed and then re-emitted as infrared light, and a lot of that is just the right wavelength for greenhouse gases to interfere. Here's a good article about the physics of this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quantum-mechanics-of-greenhouse-gases-20250915/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quantum-mechanics-of-gree...