How Do Greenhouse Gases Actually Work?

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Want to learn more about the topic in this week’s video? Here are some key words/phrases to get your googling started:
- Radiation balance - incoming radiant energy from the sun minus outgoing energy heading into space.
- Infrared radiation - electromagnetic radiation that is invisible to us; comes in longer wavelengths than visible light and provides energy transfer we call heat.
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References:
Virtual Chembook, Elmhurst College, Charles E. Ophardt
Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget, NASA Earth Observatory
Infrared spectroscopy/Caltech (mirrored from UCLA chemistry)