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Comments and Teaching Tips given for Greenhouse Effect in the Classroom: A Project- and Laboratory-Based Curriculum Comment on this resource

Dec 25, 2007
I wonder whether the heat lamp directly heats the CO2 gas in the near-infrared to a significant effect. A more rigorous demonstration would be to heat the bottoms of the fish tanks with laboratory hot plates, being certain that they are drawing the same current.