So what I’m reading is that these gas absorb the light from the sun and keeps it trapped on the earth.
What I don’t get is how is it letting the light and heat in from the sun in, but not the light and heat reflected from the Earth out? If it’s a barrier, shouldn’t it block both ways? If it’s not a barrier, how is it trapping the heat?
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Comes in as visible light which passes through the atmosphere no problem and then is radiated out as infrared which doesn’t travel through the atmosphere as well.
Oversimplification.
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