Into the Night
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You do realise of course that you're also denying that microwave ovens work by absorbing microwave energy and heating the water molecules present in food.
Not at all. Again, you are redirecting and fixating on absorption.
Absorption of surface IR by any gas or vapor in the atmosphere does not warm the Earth. Earth's surface is COOLED by this action. It takes energy to emit IR light. It is the same as if the surface heated the air above it by conduction. It's just radiance instead doing the same thing.
* You cannot create energy out of nothing (1st law of thermodynamics).
