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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Global Warming in a Nutshell

Why is the overall rate of global ice melt gradually increasing? Some say that it’s because the sun is shining more brightly. But we’re in a solar minimum. Others say that it’s because of the Milankovitch cycle. However, Milankovitch himself proved that we should already have been experiencing the beginning of the next ice age. In order to comprehend why the ice sheets are melting and ocean levels are beginning to rise is to understand that when the photonic energy emitted by the sun as visible light and infrared radiation strikes the Earth’s surface, the visible light that is not reflected away is absorbed and, thus, converted into additional infrared radiation which is felt as heat as it is radiated into the atmosphere where this ‘photonic energy’ begins to interact with the larger atmospheric molecules. Known as the greenhouse effect, it keeps the planet from freezing over.

Note: Any increase of larger atmospheric molecules strengthens the greenhouse effect.

Photon(ic):

Global Warming ‘In a Nutshell’

Classroom Demonstrations of CO2 as a Greenhouse Gas 

All of the World’s Carbon Emissions in One Chart:

Greenhouse in a Beaker:

https://youtu.be/UJp4-qCiPHU