db is now covering up his ignorance by being a pedantic troll. but it won't work because being pedantic does not change the fact he was an idiot. for the intent of this conversation and the way I used the word... the word essentially means: the question was same but with different words. however... folderol was good word. the only folderol I employed was that I was verbose. "essentially" was superfluous.
why would you misrepresent the science by leaving out the next step? after absorbing it - it then emits it. some of it going back into space.
That energy emission occurs in basically three directions: up, down, or sideways. In two of those three cases the energy emitted from a molecule reenergizes a neighboring molecule, i.e. a blanket effect.