A detailed discussion of the greenhouse effect and its impact on Earth's climate. We begin with a discussion of Earth’s energy budget, the various greenhouse gases and their interactions with longwave radiation, and a summary of major sources of greenhouse gas emisions. We then examine the mechanisms of the greenhouse effect in more detail using the idealised greenhouse model and radiative transfer models. We conclude with an analysis of the sensitivity of Earth's climate to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations, and how this interacts with the atmospheric lapse rate. Recommended prelistening is Episode 141: Natural Climate Change.
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Episode 2: Organic Agriculture Part 1
Episode 122: Respiratory and Circulatory Systems Part 1
Episode 121: The Biology of Pain
Episode 120: Computational Chemistry Part 2
Episode 119: Computational Chemistry Part 1
Episode 118: Cell Signalling
Episode 117: Intracellular Protein Sorting
Episode 116: The Cell Membrane
Episode 115: Special Relativity Part 2
Episode 114: Special Relativity Part 1
Special Episode: Visual Processing in Mice
Episode 113: Visual Processing
Episode 112: Introduction to Microbiology
Episode 111: Plate Tectonics
Episode 110: Weather Part II
Episode 109: Weather Part I
Episode 108: Political Institutions and Sustained Economic Growth
Episode 107: Cultural, Geographic, and Political Explanations of Poverty
Episode 106: Theories of Economic Growth and Development
Special Episode: Mario Livio on Galileo
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