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Heat energy on earth escapes into space . which heat transfer ?

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Earth would lose it's heat and we'd all freeze and die. On the other hand, we don't keep increasing temperature when the sun shines because heat escapes to space. But how does the heat leave earth's atmosphere if space is a vacuum and vacuums don't conduct heat except through waves

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I know that if the sun stopped shining, Earth would lose it's heat and we'd all freeze and die. On the other hand, we don't keep increasing temperature when the sun shines because heat escapes to space. But how does the heat leave earth's atmosphere if space is a vacuum and vacuums don't conduct heat except through waves

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