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Jun 2023
44m 42s

What is the greenhouse effect?

Melissa and Jam, Bleav
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#162

Here's another summer topic, if you live in a somewhat warmer climate area, you've undoubtedly notice that cars can get insanely hot during the summer. We live in Texas, and cars can get so hot that it's dangerous. What the heck is going on there? We all know this to be the case, but why exactly? Let's talk about it.

References from this episode

  1. https://www.acs.org/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/what-is-the-greenhouse-effect.html#:~:text=All%20gases%20whose%20molecules%20have,temperature%20for%20billions%20of%20years.
  2. https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/atmosphere
  3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22759590/
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimZGu5GadQ&&t=84s
  5. https://youtu.be/cimZGu5GadQ?t=84s
  6. https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/oxygen/3005899.article
  7. https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/carbon-dioxide/3005728.article
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