Light and Heat - The Greenhouse Effect: Video

I've created a video entitled Light and Heat - The Greenhouse Effect. 
It’s a pictorial explanation of the greenhouse effect. Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that absorb heat radiation, then re-emit it, serve as greenhouse gases. The notion of a one-way Carbon Arrow of carbon from fossil fuels in the earth to extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is set out. Additionally a Carbon Dioxide Bathtub is a good model for the accumulation of extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Please have a look!

This video expands on material I’ve previously posted here:

Light And Heat – The Greenhouse Effect and The CO2 Bathtub. 
This is the second in a series of videos that also includes:
         
            Our Invisible Energy and
            Fossil Fuels and Global Warming.
 
 © 2012 Henry Auer

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