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:

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Infrared spectroscopy/Caltech (mirrored from UCLA chemistry)

[kurzgesagt]

Thank you so much for having us MinuteEarth. It was so cool to work with people who really know what they are talking about – we never worked with a team that was so thorough about every single detail. The amount work and love to detail Minuteearth put in their videos is impressive. Definitely reflected on us.
Also, everyone who is looking for the Tardis: We forgot to put it in. Sorry.

[iCanHasRandomness]

instantly recognized Kurzgesagt's animation style. Great video, both of you!

[TheZALGOisCOMING]

"an unlivable -18C"

*Distant laughter from Oymyakon, Russia*

[mintaosi]

It feels so weird watching a kurzgesagt animation with a different person voicing it.

[listenherejack]

So you're saying 1% of atmospheric gas collects 90% of all our heat?!

#occupyatmosphere

[gabrielgomesbrito]

Kurz Gesagt's illustration and animation style is probably my favorite in Youtube's education channels, followed by some of Ted-ed's animators and MinuteEarth.
It's great to see two awesome channels working together.

[wyvernlord]

Oh Kurzgesagt definitely animated this.

[pcfreak]

It's always fun to hear English speaking people pronouncing German words :D

[JackSparrow-tnic]

The way he says "kurzgesagt" ... :D

[ville]

Holy crap this video looked great! :O Hope you keep making them like this because I absolutely loved the new look! <3

[AceHawk]

Kurzgesagt! Cool to see two of my favorite channels working together.

[babatulani]

Two of my favourite channels working together.
DAYM.

[nolanthiessen]

I have learned all of this over my 5 years of university, but this was a fantastic generalization for the general public.

[Nedserd]

i can't watch the animation without kurzgesagt's voice!

[chesseswar]

YAHS KURZGESAGT + MINUTEEARTH = AWESOMENESS

[geetugupta]

I obviously knew what's Greenhouse effect but never knew green house effect worked because of this, thanks!

[becton]

The love the animations doe by Kurz Gesagt i could watch them for ever

[chefRyan]

Awesome vid as always, but yeah this animation is just great. Really hope you do more collaborations with them, the simple but effective animations coupled with your excellent explanations created a great learning experience.

[yurisucupira]

Looks like *the greenhouse effect is an adiabatic (pressure-induced) process* and therefore *does not depend on the composition of the atmosphere.* The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is thus *irrelevant* to the greenhouse effect, because its concentration in the atmosphere doesn't affect the intensity of such effect. Here's the DOI code of such scientific paper: *10.4172/2573-458X.1000112*

[BladeV]

It's rare I comment on these videos, but I just wanna say those animations were a) really well done & un-intrusive and b) sold this video in such a fluid yet easily understood way. Well done on using all that Patreon funding so well guys/thanks for the videos!