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Is there any global warming experiments?
Is there any global experiments a person can do at home to prove that it exists? I don't deem the lightbulb experiment valid as it only proves that one lightbulb is hotter than the other.
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- BaccheusLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
If you do the "light bulb" experiment you can control for variances between the lights by switching them and repeating. A couple things to remember though is that you need infrared lights, and you wouldn't be proving global warming, merely the heat retention characteristic of CO2 ie CO2's role in the Greenhouse effect.
Here's an example of that experiment being done well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0kIaCKPlH4
To actually prove global warming, you would need to spectrometry devices in space over time to measure the decrease in infrared that escapes into space. But that's already been done, so you can just read some of the studies if you are really interested.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6826/ab...
http://spiedigitallibrary.org/proceedings/resource...
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009JD011800...
The increase in the Greenhouse Effect has been directly measured and proved.
- laboveLv 45 years ago
I trust you utterly. I is probably not a lot support however ordinary experience says that plant existence consumes carbon dioxide after which offers off oxygen that we people breathe in that's whatever you might point out. This is a natural cycle. Also appear at temperatures earlier than the economic age, there used to be a interval in which they have been hotter than they're now. I can say determine out a guide referred to as, "Green Hell" by means of: Steve Milloy it'll support give an explanation for what the truly motive of this international warming stuff rather is.
- pegminerLv 710 years ago
Some people suggest experiments where you put CO2 into a bottle and keep track of temperature, but I think most home experiments are prone to error unless done very carefully. I'm not sure why you feel the need not to believe prevailing scientific opinion on this, though. Do you do your own relativity experiments at home? Do you do DNA research? How about synthesize your own compounds? Do you have your own particle accelerator?
If you really want to do valid global warming experiments at home, I would suggest getting a copy of one of the global climate models and running that on a computer at home. If anyone suggests that the models are incorrect, you should be able to get the source code and change the model physics to correct them.
- ?Lv 510 years ago
Myhbusters had a fairly good experiment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPRd5GT0v0I&feature...
Anthony Watts proved that Al Gore's "Global warming in a jar" was a complete fabrication. Alarmists tend to make up results to fit their hypothesis so it wasn't much of a surprise.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/18/replicating-...
That CO2 causes warming isn't in doubt. The AMOUNT of warming that it causes is.
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- jerryLv 510 years ago
yes check out the experiment algore and nye the noscience guy did for the 24 hours of global warming doom and gloom last month, pardon the pun but it was a gas
- Jeff MLv 710 years ago
RichardH: That shows absolutely nothing about global warming and CO2. What it does show is the reaction between CO2 water and what the term 'acidification' refers to.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Putting air in a jar proves nothing it is a closed system . Earth is a open system . You would have to add soil plants and water to it.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Global warming isn't real. Top scientists predict another ice age in about 10,000 years.