Required Discussion_ CO2 in a Bottle - Discussion Group 6

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1. Describe the main result from the CO 2 experiments in the two videos below. The main result from both experiments is that CO 2 made the temperature rise as compared to the control. Which experiment did you find more compelling and why? The experiment I found most compelling was the bottle experiment. What interested me the most is that she was able to make her own CO 2 gas. This experiment showed a much more temperature difference than the first experiment and that's only on a small scale. It made me think about how much of a change is made on earth. 2. Why did the colors of the globe fade when covered in glass? The colors of the globe faded when covered in glass because the glass is reflecting the light back to the globe and it is no longer able to radiate off the globe.The glass does not let it escape. Why did the colors of the teacher fade when covered in the sweatshirt? The colors of the teacher faded when covered in the sweatshirt because the sweatshirt traps the heat closer to his body and again does not let the radiation escape. How is this similar to how CO2 holds heat in the Earth's atmosphere? This is similar because by the earth holding in heat, we experience global warming. 3. Video 1: Why did the colors of the flame fade when CO2 was placed between the camera and the flame? The colors of the flame faded because the CO2 fills the tube between the camera and candle which traps the heat and does not let it escape. Therefore we are no longer able to see the heat coming off from the candle on the camera.
Video 2: Why did the colors of the female student fade to blue when the Ziplock bag was placed in front of her face? The colors of the female student faded to blue when the Ziplock bag was placed because the gasses within the bag absorbed the heat just like the other videos demonstrated. So it is no longer able to escape through the bag and be seen on the IR camera. 4. Which of the above videos did you find most convincing and why? Or perhaps the combination of all videos was helpful - why was that? The combination of all the videos were helpful because in the end they all had the same result. You are no longer able to see the infrared radiation because the heat is being trapped. Which in turn causes the tempter to rise like the first two videos for question #1 showed. Were these things you had already understood before taking this class? No, I had no understanding about any of these things before this class. I never really thought about global warming and greenhouse gasses. Show at least one of these videos to someone not taking the class and tell us about the conversation that ensued. I showed my friend the greenhouse effect in a bottle video and the conversation that occurred was that he feels the experiment is flawed to help push a narrative. But, if the experiment wasn’t flawed then, he would say global warming is real and that we need to do the best we can to reverse the damage. I then asked him why he thought the experiment was flawed. He said there is “no indication what the CO2 readings are. It could be more than the earth’s atmosphere, but we don’t know because it’s not shown. So it would have more than what’s in our atmosphere and that could be the reason why it heated as much as it did”.
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