sam
you can find articles that refute each other all over the
internet , this is why I posted the video of the experiment.
although you didn't notice , in my description of the
video that you requested because of your computer systems
capabilities the ends of the glass tube were not covered
with glass as I first stated , they were covered with a thin
sheet of plastic wrap of some sorts.
because glass will reflect IR.
you still haven't commented on what you think happened to
the IR heat from the candle.
do you think that the IR heat from the candle was absorbed by the CO2?
and if that is what you think then why didn't the camera
pick up the absorbed heat of the CO2 as the heat builds up
in the CO2?
also , do you really think that it takes 10 minutes for
the atoms of the CO2 molecule to re-emit a photon after
the atom has absorbed a photon?
if so could you provide a link to that information.
when the atom becomes excited by an IR photon and due to the
added energy from the IR photon that it absorbed the
electrons in the atom must move outwards to a higher orbit
around the atom.
this results in a stored energy by the atom.
can the CO2 store this energy as heat that can heat the earth
and at a later date re-emit that energy to further heat the earth?
wouldn't the atmosphere cool as heat is re-emitted
from the atmosphere?
wouldn't the surface cool as heat is re-emitted
from the surface?
Im going to say that either the atmosphere or the surface will cool when either of them re-emits heat.
so instead of building up heat , heat is simply being moved
from place to place.
one other question I have is that when a IR photon has
excited atoms in a CO2 molecule , it should not be capable
of further excitement by IR photons.
so that the molecules of CO2 that have already been excited
in the atmosphere cannot absorb another IR photon until after re-emission occurs and the IR photon will pass by.
if the earths atmosphere were composed entirely of
CO2 molecules that were excited then at that point
in time the suns inbound IR would pass through
the CO2 atmosphere , and would be absorbed or
reflected by the surface , then the surface
emitted outbound radiation would also pass
through the CO2.
all of the surface emitted thermal heat would simply
pass through the excited CO2 molecules , and this includes
the earths own heat that is generated internally.
there would not be a continuous heating of the atmosphere as
the atmosphere can only hold so many CO2 molecules and only
so many CO2 molecules can be excited.
