/sci/ - Science & Math

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CO2 takes 1 second to decay from an excited state to a ground state per the Einstein A co-efficient. He calculated these time constants as a result of his work winning the Nobel prize in 1921. CO2 releases the absorbed energy of an IR photon in 1 nanosecond by collision with other atmospheric particles.

What does this difference mean? It means that a CO2 molecule cannot re-emit an IR photon to continually raise the temperature by reheating the Earth. THINK ABOUT THIS PROCESS. It is exactly the process claimed to warm the Earth by CO2. It cannot work because the process claimed does not occur.

Go to the UCAR website. You will see a cartoon of a CO2 molecule absorbing an IR photon and then a second later releasing that IR photon to continue warming the atmosphere and the implication is that this happens over and over again, warming the atmosphere over and over with the same energy in violation of the Law Of Conservation Of Energy. Well, If we could do this why cant we fill our car with gas one time and drive forever?

What actually happens is that the energy is emitted from the Earth and those IR photons that are the correct frequency to be absorbed by a CO2 molecule of the correct frequency, ARE absorbed then almost immediately turned into thermal energy via collision. Those IR photons that are off frequency for the CO2 molecules are captured in ever decreasing numbers. CO2 molecules vibrate at frequencies determined by their Atomic weights and absorption of an IR photon is also limited by the alignment of the electronic field of the photon and the CO2 molecule.

Therefore the main energy frequency of the CO2 molecule lies in the 15 micron band. 98% of the IR energy is absorbed by the CO2 molecule in this band. Most at the center frequencies with less energy absorbed as one gets further from the center. At the center almost all of the IR energy is captured. as one goes toward the edges the rate of IR photon...