Carbon dioxide molecules don't directly react with the sunlight but they can absorb the energy in the form of infrared waves when it is emitted after reflection through the Earth's surface.
What are infrared waves?
Infrared radiation (IR), sometimes referred to simply as infrared, is a region of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum where wavelengths range from about 700 nanometers (nm) to 1 millimeter (mm).
[tex]CO_2[/tex] molecules don't really interact with sunlight's wavelengths. Only after the Earth absorbs sunlight and reemits the energy as infrared waves can the [tex]CO_2[/tex] and some other greenhouse gases absorb the energy.
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