Talk:Greenhouse effect

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Can I make the edit about real greenhouses? Weirdbeard 12:24, 2 August 2008 (EDT)

Yeh, OK, if you really must 82.45.165.45 12:25, 2 August 2008 (EDT)

OK, now that I've logged back in I'll go do just that Weirdbeard 12:26, 2 August 2008 (EDT)

Since you're really me that's just fine. But you'd better log back in again first ... 82.45.165.45 12:27, 2 August 2008 (EDT)

Right here, I am then. Why the hell am I talking to myself? Weirdbeard 12:28, 2 August 2008 (EDT)

In other news

You're in for a nasty surprise. I'm going to stop teasing you now, though... ^_^ ~ Gloom_{(is never asleep)} 12:29, 2 August 2008 (EDT)

I enjoy talking to myself though. I'm usually the only one who knows what I'm talking about :-) Heavens, I have to go to the BBQ Weirdbeard 12:31, 2 August 2008 (EDT)

Reworked

It was about time William M. Connolley (talk) 21:37, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Looks better. Not sure about "the Earth is heated by two sources" bit because there's also a small (nigglingly negligible) quantity of geothermal energy, and then heat retention and redistribution by the hydrosphere... just seems like it's liable to be more confusing than the "blanket" analogies. ADK^{...I'll wash your homotopy!} 21:44, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Geothermal is negligible (though it might be worth stating that explicitly). The hydrosphere isn't a source (well, you know that, I'm just expanding) it is just part of the "more complex than that" bit; the article doesn't cover seasonal or diurnal or geographical variation either William M. Connolley (talk) 21:47, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Well, in that respect the greenhouse effect isn't so much a source either as much as it's a mechanism for shifting equilibrium. There might be a better way of wording it somewhere. ADK^{...I'll bless your respiratory system!} 21:54, 12 October 2011 (UTC)