The 'greenhouse effect' sounds credible to the innumerate and technically naive (politicians, journalists, school children, activists) but does not actually stand up to serious scrutiny (hence the reversion to consensus and appeals to authority arguments which have neither logical nor scientific validity).  If it were applied to the design of, say, gas turbine engines, they would not work.  It is the modern Piltdown man or belief in canals on Mars.  Widely believed humbug.