Does it vibrate from wavelength? Yep. Does it vibrate due to the sunlight/wavelength? No. It vibrates due to 'acted upon' wavelength by Earth and returned to the troposphere as infrared.
Currently 380 ppm
Hard to believe that 380 parts of one million parts of air causes so much heat on Earth.
As infrared is reflected from Earth it passes the carbon dioxide in the troposphere. We know that infrared has wavelength. We know infrared has the ability to transmit heat. As it is reflected back to space, carbon dioxide is vibrated by it. In that vibration the wavelength not used to 'excite' the carbon dioxide molecule is then again returned to Earth. It then also returns heat as infrared. The infrared reflected from the carbon dioxide is scattered adn depending on the 'mode' of the excited carbon dioxide the infrared scatters randomly back to Earth.
I would expect about now the understanding of why heat builds on Earth as carbon dioxide builds in the troposphere would start to become self evident.
PV = nRTemperature
The Ideal Gas Law
n = the number of moles of gas in a volume under a specific pressure acted on by a known (R) quantity and TEMPERATURE.
This is an equilibrium reaction. As commodities on the right side of the equation change the commodities on the left hand side of the equation change and then in turn there is again changes on the right hand side of the equation.
As the moles (number of molecules) of carbon dioxide goes up, the volume found in the troposphere changes, which in turn acts on the temperature due to the equilibrium dynamics of Earth and it's chronic 'feed back loop' of infrared with ever increasing carbon dioxide.
Within this equation is one that is more complex. It is called Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures (click on). Basically, it says this:
"...that the identity of a gas is unimportant in determining the P-V-T properties of the gas. This behavior means that a gas mixture behaves in exactly the same fashion as a pure gas...."
The troposphere of Earth is a gas mixture containing water vapor. What causes weather on Earth? Carbon dioxide? No. Water. What molecule has an incredible dynamics in the range of heat reaction? Carbon dioxide? No. Water. What does carbon dioxide do? It vibrates and returns 'radiant' heat of infrared to Earth to warm the planet. What mechanism 'holds' the heat in the troposphere? Carbon dioxide? No. Water.
As Dalton's Law predicts, it does not require a particular gas property to understand the 'balance' of the entire gas mixture. In this case, the properties of carbon dioxide are complimented by mixing with water and creating a troposphere that nurtures biota. As the carbon dioxide increases in the troposphere the compliment with water vapor increases revealed in the 'hydrological' reaction relationship between the properties of carbon dioxide and water.
Earth's troposphere has a mixture of gases. It is in an equilibrium distribution. The entire planet is served by this relationship of Greenhouse Gases and water. When water vapor is present in the form it takes on Earth, it is complimented by a mixture of gases that provides the radiant heat to enable a planet which by nature is ice to be a lush forest of life as we have come to know it.
