Questions to the infinite monkey cage on climate change
Here are my questions to the team of the The Infinite Monkey Cage , Series 13 on Climate Change Where: Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by guests Dara O Briain, Professor Tony Ryan and Dr Gabrielle Walker to discuss the ever-hot topic of climate change. They take a forensic look at the evidence that the climate is changing, how we know we are responsible, and what can be done to stop it. The scientific will may be there, but is the political will finally catching up? My Questions 1) How can it be oxygen and nitrogen not absorb or emit infrared radiation when (in the next chapter of my physics book) it is said ‘no substance does not radiate infrared’? 2) Would a molecule of oxygen in the vacuum of space, in the sun, absorb IR (heat)? If not, why not? 3) Why do we only use thermoelectric thermopile detectors (as John Tyndall used in his 1859 experiment) when if we also used Raman spectrometers ( the complement to