Is Earth getting warmer because of global warming from the Sun?

https://www.quora.com/Is-Earth-getting-warmer-because-of-global-warming-from-the-Sun

My reply:

Sorry, but the temperatures in the troposphere and stratosphere have nothing to do with the temperatures at the Earth’s surface. Only the Sun heats the surface, and the process of radiation and convection take it away to the infinite heat sink of space. On the Moon there is no atmosphere, so there is only radiation. On the Earth the gigantic atmosphere substitutes convection for most of the radiation, taking the heat away via convection, but slowly, because like anything with mass it takes time to heat or cool. But take it away it does, so any attempt to attribute rising surface temperatures to CO2 is moose hockey. Once surface heat has warmed the air, it gets lighter and rises, just like hose bubbles in an aquarium. The basic laws of Thermodynamics prohibit heat from flowing from a cooler to a warmer body, or from heat not degrading in quality at each transformation. There is no dragon in the sky. Like a poor street urchin freezing while viewing rich fat warm restaurant patrons through the window, no matter how much heat is in the atmosphere it’s never going to heat the surface back up, but on the contrary, the surface just keeps getting cooled more and more as convection does its work. The claimed itsy bitsy 0.1C global annual avg. warming per decade in the past are based on strained artificial equations that have no reality, and projections of coming Armageddon based on them are worthless. In short, CO2-driven global warming is a hoax perpetrated for political-economic reasons, and intelligent people can’t buy it. The record cold winter we’re now having doesn’t jive with the hoax.
2017–18 North American cold wave - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_North_American_cold_wave)

It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record | The Weather Channel (https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2018-11-27-winter-misery-index-awssi-extreme-start-november-2018)

See my full explanation here: TLW's Two Cents Worth on Climate Change
http://www.historyscoper.com/climatetlw.html