Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Applied Aviation Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
2016
Abstract/Description
As long ago as 1896, Svanti Arrenius conducted a scientific analysis of the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) and atmospheric temperatures. Several decades later, GS Callender collected and compiled temperature data from around the world and found there had been an increase in global temperatures. He hypothesized that the rising temperatures were resulting from increasing levels of CO2. These early studies piqued the interest of Gilbert Plass in the mid-20th century who endeavored to determine how CO2 affects temperature. In his effort to determine the possible effects that higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere were having on the energy flux, Plass found that CO2 molecules are efficient absorbers of Earth’s outgoing heat energy. Higher levels of carbon dioxide cause greater absorption of outgoing heat energy, less heat escapes to space, and higher atmospheric temperatures result.
Publication Title
Journal of Climatology & Weather Forecasting
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-2594.1000e111
Publisher
Longdom Publishing
Scholarly Commons Citation
Snow R, Snow M (2016) Until We Meet Again. J Climatol Weather Forecasting 4: e111. doi:10.4172/2332-2594.1000e111
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Environmental Education Commons, Environmental Monitoring Commons, Sustainability Commons
