Does oxygen in the vacuum of space absorb IR Radiation?

I have now published my updated theory of the atmosphere. Augmenting 19th Century Thermoelectric Greenhouse Theory with 20th Century Quantum Mechanics Raman Spectroscopy: Towards a Coherent Radiation Theory of the Atmosphere
Update: May 2017
I am writing up my findings, but I have settled on this question: N2 and O2 absorb and emit IR radiation in space, at least in the thermosphere. In the thermosphere, there can only be radiation, and these molecules are 'radiated' to a temperature of some 2500C. Good for the goose, good for the gander: N2 and O2 radiate in the troposphere, too. 

The key assumption of climate science (to both proponents and sceptics of manmade climate change) is that N2 and O2—the non-greenhouse gases constituting 99% of the dry atmosphere—do not absorb or emit IR radiation. In space, there is only radiation to transfer heat energy. If this is true for the vacuum of space, then it must be true for the atmosphere. Space is the place to test that premise. 

I have asked three expert physicists (two of them ex-chemistry professors and one of them a climate sceptic), and they all tentatively suggest they must. I don't think anyone has thought about it before. The thought experiment came to me while watching Apollo 13—they 'vented' O2 gas into space. NASA, we’ve got a problem. 

I can imagine a molecule of O2 (and/or N2) warming, gaining energy as it gets nearer to the sun and cooling when it is farther from it. They must defy

thermodynamics.  

Besides this, in thermal radiation theory, all substances are said to radiate infrared; if N2 and O2 don't, then there is a contradiction. 

So, where have we gone wrong?

It is instrumentation: We have been using an instrument that uses thermopile detectors. These thermopiles discriminate both N2 and O2 as—due to N2 and O2's lack of a symmetric/non-electric dipole moment—they do not generate electricity via the Seebeck effect, and so are not measured, while CO2, CH4, H2O, and the others (the so-called greenhouse gases, but really should be called the thermoelectric gases) do and are.

I have discovered that N2 and O2 both have vibration modes in the IR range of the electromagnetic spectrum, at 2330 cm-1 and 1556 cm-1, respectively, and these vibrational modes can be clearly observed using a Raman Spectrometer.

Here’s where we have gone wrong.

She followed my reasoning.

My Professor friend asked me, ' Why are you asking these questions, Blair?' I replied, ' Isn’t that what science is about? '

Here is a clip of my discoveries.