Incompetents in science assumed nothing heats the atmosphere but greenhouse gases. They missed the fact that most heat enters the atmosphere by wind blowing over the surface of the Earth and picking up heat through conduction and convection. That's getting too much wrong to be real science. They aren't getting anything else right about carbon dioxide when they get such a simple fact of science wrong.

Here is a quote that they used for about ten years at the top of most web sites on global warming. Some of it has been removed recently.

The "greenhouse effect" refers to the natural phenomenon that keeps the Earth in a temperature range that allows life to flourish. The sun's enormous energy warms the Earth's surface and its atmosphere. As this energy radiates back toward space as heat, a portion is absorbed by a delicate balance of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere —among them carbon dioxide and methane—which creates an insulating layer. With the temperature control of the greenhouse effect, the Earth has an average surface temperature of 59°F (15°C). Without it, the average surface temperature would be 0°F (-18°C),---

Scientists have concluded that human activities are contributing to global warming by adding large amounts of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere.---we release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the air.

Here's a similar quote from Wikipedia:

On greenhouse gases, Wikipedia states, "Without greenhouse gases, the average temperature of the Earth's surface would be about -18°C (0°F), rather than the present average of 15°C (59°F)."

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas)

Wikipedia attributes all of the temperature increase caused by the atmosphere (33°C) to greenhouse gases and none to conduction, convection and evaporation.

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