Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and fluorinated gases (non-condensable) are responsible for determining the global levels of water vapor (condensable), also a greenhouse gas. The natural levels of these gases in the atmosphere that trigger the absorption of ‘infrared radiation’ (better known as heat) have kept our planet’s oceans from freezing into a solid chunk of ice for hundreds of millions of years. Now, however, the new reality of increasingly higher and higher levels of unnaturally produced and released greenhouse gases assures us of quite the opposite.
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/climate-change/how-does-the-greenhouse-effect-work/
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