Before revision: Discredited theories and reconciled apparent discrepancies Analogy of the greenhouse effect to the atmosphere As mentioned earlier, Joseph Fourier in the 1820s proposed that the heating of a greenhouse is due to radiation trapping , since glass is opaque to infrared radiation.
After revision: Discredited theories and reconciled apparent discrepancies Analogy of the greenhouse effect to the atmosphere The early work of Joseph Fourier found that a greenhouse heats up mainly due to radiation trapping , since glass is opaque to infrared radiation.