palerider
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The earth, warmed by the sun, emits long wave radiation.
Specific bands of earth's radiation are resonantly absorbed and scattered by gasses in the atmosphere.
Some of the radiation in those bands are scattered back to earth.
The back-scattered radiation prevents the earth from losing as much heat as it would if those gasses were not present.
If that were true, then the hot spot, predicted by the greenhouse hypothesis would be in evidence. It is not. FAIL.