Re: Global warming and your garden

In article <-rmdnVApjdnrnLLVnZ2dnUVZ_s7inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Paul E. Lehmann" <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> The thing(s) that are supposedly influencing
> global warming are the so called "green house
> gases" (GHG) which by the way act in no way like
> a green house and thus are incorrectly named.
If the idea of a greenhouse is to trap solar radiation 
(electromagnetic radiation: EMR) in order to raise its' interior 
temperature, then that is exactly what greenhouse gases 
are doing. Not to put too fine a point on it, their covalent 
bonds absorb EMR in multiples of the lowest bond energy. The 
absorbed energy is converted into kinetic energy which maybe 
linear, rotational, oscillation (Consider a molecule as a series 
of weights held together by springs. You can throw the molecule 
[linear], the molecule will tumble [rotational], and the 
constituent bodies will oscillate [the weights will move in and 
out in relation to each other]). The EMR has increased the movement of 
that molecule (water va****, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide,
ozone, or CFCs) and that is what we call heat. These molecules 
then passe that kinetic energy on to other atmospheric molecules
and heat the atmosphere.


> The
> GHG are colorless.  You have a point, however, in
> that some scientist are thinking that the
> particulates may be more of a culprit than the
> GHG for climate change. 

Citation please. Who says that?
-- 

Billy
Bush Behind Bars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg&ref=patrick.net
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