We did warm, but not because of anything happening in the longwave spectrum, as it lost energy.
More energy is escaping because the Earth is hotter, but at the same time, the CO2 bands continue to trap infrared radiation.
As CO2 builds up, it blocks more and more of the infrared spectrum, especially in the wings of its absorption band.
While that's happening, the Earth becomes less efficient at shedding heat, because the radiation has to escape from higher layers of the atmosphere.
But the higher you go, the colder it gets, and colder air emits less energy.
So the big CO2 "blanket" keeps expanding upward, and heat has a harder time escaping.
This is why the planet keeps warming.
And the reason why you cannot accept this, I suspect, is because at some point in your life you were involved in an industry that contributed to the pumping of CO2 into the atmosphere, and you feel bad that you are potentially causing great harm to everyone else.
Remember when Upton Sinclair said: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
We warmed because more of the available sunlight reached the surface, not because of added greenhouse gases.
This is almost certainly false. This is also an extreme, fringe view that is not held by the vast majority of scientists involved in climate science.
This is the kind of people folks involved in the oil and gas industry constantly talk about in an effort to morally justify their day-to-day actions.
I want to be clear about one thing though. I support the oil and gas industry. This industry is essential to our national security and our economy, but I think we need to transition, as quickly as possible, to other forms of energy production. But this first begins with the recognition of what we're doing to our planet.
