How does CO2 trap heat?
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How does CO2 trap heat?
This question drives alarmists up the wall
Not the question, but the fact they can’t answer it
Not the question, but the fact they can’t answer it
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
To save you time and effort
Here are the three main explainings that will show up
CO2 absorbs a photon and then emits it, in all directions, meaning about half of it goes back toward the planet, wHere it is absorbed by the surface and this makes the surface warmer
The second one
CO2 absorbs a photon and increases it’s energy level and transmits this energy to oxygen and nitrogen molecules, warming them up
The third one
A CO2 molecule absorbs a photon and this warms up the CO2 molecule
Here are the three main explainings that will show up
CO2 absorbs a photon and then emits it, in all directions, meaning about half of it goes back toward the planet, wHere it is absorbed by the surface and this makes the surface warmer
The second one
CO2 absorbs a photon and increases it’s energy level and transmits this energy to oxygen and nitrogen molecules, warming them up
The third one
A CO2 molecule absorbs a photon and this warms up the CO2 molecule
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
And before some pedant shows up to nitpick, yes, people claim CO2 levels control the climate of the planet, by trapping heat that would otherwise just go back into space
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
I think that's the one.
Specifically, it's in infrared wavelengths.
Visible light goes right through it, but you can see it with an infrared camera.
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
I refer you to the link posted above
https://scienceofdoom.com/2011/03/07/un ... art-eight/
Fascinating stuff. As you can see 95% of radiation at 15μm is absorbed in just 1 meter of atmosphere at the surface of the earth (1000 mb
https://scienceofdoom.com/2011/03/07/un ... art-eight/
Fascinating stuff. As you can see 95% of radiation at 15μm is absorbed in just 1 meter of atmosphere at the surface of the earth (1000 mb
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
Note the wording, which appears everywhere
Absorbed
Absorbed
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
The explaining that the photon is absorbed and then radiated in all directions (the tiny mirror explaining) does not match with the energy being absorbed
Or blocked
If it’s letting half the energy through (see previous explaining) it is not blocking or absorbing the energy at all
To save time, the next explaining is that “it slows the radiation from returning to space”
Or blocked
If it’s letting half the energy through (see previous explaining) it is not blocking or absorbing the energy at all
To save time, the next explaining is that “it slows the radiation from returning to space”
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
How does a blanket trap heat?
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
By reducing convection
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
Unless it’s a “space” blanket in which case it also reduces radiation of heat as well
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
All of that could be looked up if you were actually asking, rather than being dumb


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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
I'll take your word for it.
I don't really know how to explain the physics of how a blanket works, I just know it works because I use one every night to stay warm.
I'm not trying to be dumb or troll you. I can't find it anymore, but I once saw a youtube video showing how CO2 is opaque to a thermal camera but you can see right through it with your eyes. In other words, it is transparent to visible light, but opaque to infrared light.
This is not the video, but it does show how some kinds of plastic can be transparent to visible light but opaque to infrared, while other kinds are transparent to infrared while opaque to visible.
I don't really know how to explain the physics of how a blanket works, I just know it works because I use one every night to stay warm.
I'm not trying to be dumb or troll you. I can't find it anymore, but I once saw a youtube video showing how CO2 is opaque to a thermal camera but you can see right through it with your eyes. In other words, it is transparent to visible light, but opaque to infrared light.
This is not the video, but it does show how some kinds of plastic can be transparent to visible light but opaque to infrared, while other kinds are transparent to infrared while opaque to visible.
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
Well then I apologize
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?

For fun, and great justice, learning shit about IR IS PRETTY COOL
Before I started looking into the science of doom (CO2 theory) I did not know most of the energy from the sun is in the IR
55% to be exact
Which brought up all kinds of interesting paths to understanding
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Re: How does CO2 trap heat?
For example, the difference between violet and red light is the difference between a short book and a long book
The difference between near infrared (which we think of as radiant heat) and far infrared is the difference between a yard and a football field
As one can see in the diagram above, most of the IR from the sun is blocked from reaching the surface, by the atmosphere, mostly by water vapor or clouds
And by ozone
And by CO2 and some trace gases
It never reaches the ground
The difference between near infrared (which we think of as radiant heat) and far infrared is the difference between a yard and a football field
As one can see in the diagram above, most of the IR from the sun is blocked from reaching the surface, by the atmosphere, mostly by water vapor or clouds
And by ozone
And by CO2 and some trace gases
It never reaches the ground
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