A simple greenhouse experiment you can try at home:
Line a large open bowl with dark cloth or paper.
Place the bowl in the sun and put an inverted paper cup in the bowl. Lay a thermometer across the top of the cup so that you are measuring the air temperature in the bowl.
Note the temperature.
Cover the bowl with a sheet of clear plastic wrap. Note the new temperature reading. The increase in air temperature is due to the trapped heat.
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The greenhouse effect is a pretty straightforward theory and easily demonstrable.
If CO2 was the equivalent of cellophane, you might have a point. I've checked and it doesn't resemble anything like cellophane.
My cousin a life long strong conservative Republican was a Naval officer for 20 years. He was a submariner. He spoke of the first time they were in the ice near the shelfs in the north sea. He stated that the naval scientists were there to study the ice shelfs. Bud said that the soot was all over the snow on the ice and the land. Soot is black and holds onto heat. White deflects heat.
Do the math. Even the US military supports the thesis that the earth is warming and man has caused part of it.
Soot is from man. No doubt we do not know how much man's pollution has contributed but fact is we have.
No offense but it makes us Republicans look terribly stupid to deny basic scientific fact. Same with evolution. Republicans are being very ignorant there also.
Oh yeah? My wife's cousin's husband once went to the Sahara. He came back 20 years later and commented on how much cooler it was. Especially at night.
Do the math!