Response: They are measuring
infrared radiation coming from the sky.
Anthropogenic global warming is caused by an increase in the amount of downward longwave
infrared radiation coming from greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Just look at the satellite measurements of LW
infrared radiation coming up from the earth.
Placed in this context, the lamentations over a bit of missing anthropogenic heat on Earth seems a bit paranoid, akin to being paranoid over
the infrared radiation coming from a single red LED light compared to
the infrared radiation coming from the Sun.
For example simple spectroscopy dictates that the CO2 molecule vibrates, stretches, and rotates creating quantized absorption lines that are Doppler broadened and pressure broadened and absorb
the infrared radiation coming from the warmed planet.
Those data showed increased
infrared radiation coming from several volcanic regions and was interpreted by a NASA - funded team as evidence that the rocks there formed from lava flows within the past million years — recently, on a geological timescale.
In the experiment, which was for pure gases and vapors, the absorbed and radiated
infrared radiations came from sources of heat which included heated oil to 250 °C and heated copper ball to low redness.
Not exact matches
[6] Cosmic -
infrared background
radiation, similar to the more famous cosmic microwave background, is a faint glow in the
infrared part of the spectrum that appears to
come from all directions in space.
The researchers measured
infrared and microwave
radiation coming from Mercury's surface.
Eight of the newly discovered clouds were more energetic than would be expected given the amount of
radiation coming from the host quasar, even when observed in
infrared light by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space te
infrared light by NASA's Wide - field
Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space te
Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.
In 1983, an orbiting satellite called IRAS discovered far more
infrared radiation — which has waves longer than red light —
coming from the Vega than expected for small interstellar dust grains found around young, early - type stars (Harvey et al, 1984).
The
infrared rays are the same rays that
come from the sun without the UV
radiation.
- The importance of UVA, UVB,
infrared and visible
radiation when it
comes to prevention of chronic disease... 22:40
A carbon dioxide molecule still absorbs
infrared - red
radiation and increases the earth's temperature whether it
comes from increased ecomomic activity or not.
If you take a tube of CO2 at 300K, and you illuminate it with a 300K
infrared source, you» lll still see 300K
radiation coming out the end of the tube, no matter how much CO2 is in there.
The same issues that are bugging you (or your skeptical acquaintance) are perfectly well illustrated, indeed better illustrated, by the heating of bare, dry rock from solar
radiation and from
infrared coming down from the atmosphere.
The cell also overcomes some of the major problems with current solar tech like wear out or damage from high heat that
comes from the absorption of great amounts of ultraviolet and
infrared radiation that can't actually be turned into electricity due to a narrow band gap (the wavelength of light that can effectively be used to generate electricity).
And the highest intensity of the electromagnetic
radiation coming form our sun is in the visible and near
infrared part of this spectrum.
What we do get, is real invisible heat from the Sun which
comes to us as thermal
infrared which in the real world is how heat is transferred by
radiation, and we get white light without which we would have no life on Earth because the blue wavelength is essential for photosynthesis.
18 H. Energy in Earth System Most energy that reaches Earth's surface
comes from the sun as electromagnetic
radiation in form of
infrared, visible, and UV rays.
Most energy that reaches Earth's surface
comes from the sun as electromagnetic
radiation in form of
infrared, visible, and UV rays.
So what good is this experiment for the real scenario where carbon dioxide temperature is at ambient temperature or cooler and
infrared radiation is
coming from surface at ambient temperature?
So what good is this experiment for the real scenario where carbon dioxide temperature is at ambient temperature or cooler and
infrared radiations is
coming from surface at ambient temperature?
Radiation comes in from the sun (solar
radiation at short wavelengths), and every body radiates according to its temperature (proportional to the fourth power of absolute temperature), so that on Earth we, and the surface and atmosphere radiate at
infrared wavelengths.
The gas which absorbs the most heat (
infrared radiation) is the most effective greenhouse gas as in the atmosphere it would absorb more
infrared coming from the Earth's surface.
The evidence here
comes from satellite measurements of
infrared radiation escaping from the earth into outer space, from measurements of sunlight reflected from clouds and from measurements of the temperature the earth's surface or of the troposphere, the roughly 10 km thick layer of the atmosphere above the earth's surface that is filled with churning air and clouds, heated from below at the earth's surface, and cooled at the top by
radiation into space.
If heat in a mixture
comes from a source in wavelengths not absorbable by CO2, CO2 will not contribute additional warmth, but will cool via emission of
infrared radiation.
The only energy it has
comes from other places... like collisions with the other atoms and molecules of the atmosphere, from
infrared radiation and conduction from the earth's surface.