Santa Cruz Sentinel: Fortunately for all of us, the Earth’s atmosphere contains natural greenhouse gases that have made the Earth a habitable planet by keeping it warmer than it would be otherwise. Our atmosphere behaves much like the windows in your car. Short wave solar radiation passes through the glass. The interior heats up and reradiates long wave back radiation. But the glass windows don’t allow it to escape, so the inside of your car can get pretty hot. The Earth works much the same way, only …