Wow you seem so clever. Thanks for the lecture, I feel so priveliged.

My own historical credentials were only BEng MSc CEng MIET MINCOSE, with thirty years of Systems Engineering including with energy patents, and the last seven years spent researching the global energy problem using formal systems Engineering techniques, free of charge, on your behalf, but I guess all that is dashed to the ground now, worthless.

How dared I question the group-think?

Basic physics explains global heating but not by greenhouse gases.

It maybe takes some more advanced physics to understand why not.

Earth retains some radiated energy from sunlight, for sure.

But this can't significantly change the temperature we measure on the planet because the atmosphere is adiabatic.

Adiabatic means it is free to expand, thus cancelling any blanket effect it might cause if it was not free to expand.

This means there is no blanket effect by any atmosphere, not on any planet.

Earth is not contained within a thermos flask.

What there is, if the atmosphere reflects more radiated energy back to the planet, as a result of more reflective gases, is a slightly increased level of radiation within the atmosphere, but no more than implied by the known change of albido.

A change of x in the albido means a change of x in the radiative heating impulse applied to the planet.

How much has the albido of Earth changed, according to satellites, in the time we've been measuring it using those? Not much, a few percent, maybe.

That does not explain the change in Energy in KWhrs, required to raise the thermal mass of the planet, to change its temperature by even one degree, never mind the several degrees we are measuring.

What does explain the latter, is to just calculate the energy converted to planetary heat by our consumption of energy from the planet.

We can do this by estimating the amount of energy consumption associated with every human per capita, including the energy gained by profit, and multiplying by the number of humans, 8 billion.

Convert that energy consumption to KWhrs of heat, and apply it to the thermal mass of the planet, and Lo, we get figures in the same ballpark as the measured planetary temperature rise.

This is not particularly advanced physics in terms of complexity, but its advanced physics because the group-think appears to be consciously avoiding it, virtue signalling, every individual preferring to think they personally are not part of this system of energy slavery destroying the planet.

But we all play a part in it, at least every adult who has been trained by the for-profit commodified education system to play a micro part in it, like ants, without thinking about it, just imprinting it, like the group does, and get foraging for your next victims, from whom to steal your next quantas of energy from, in the form of money, by successfully making profit, no questioning, because otherwise you get energy starved by being ejected from the group, right?