VIRTUAL MEETING | Science behind the Greenhouse Effect
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TITLE | Science behind the Greenhouse Effect
SPEAKER | Joanna D. Haigh CBE FRS FInstP FRMetS Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Physics. Imperial College London.
BIOGRAPHY | Joanna Haigh CBE FRS is an atmospheric physicist and was, for 5 years prior to her retirement, co-Director of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. Previously Head of Imperial’s Physics Department she has published widely in the area of climate modelling and radiative forcing of climate change; her work on how changes in solar activity influence the climate has been particularly influential.
ABSTRACT | The world is warming at a rate faster that has happened in the past largely due to the “greenhouse effect” (GHE) of gases released into the atmosphere by human activities.
This talk described how understanding of the GHE has developed since it was first proposed by Joseph Fourier in 1824 to explain the warmth of the Earth’s surface. It did go on to look at the properties of atmospheric constituents, the science of how they heat the surface, even though present in very small amounts, and how the temperature responds to increasing concentrations.
VIRTUAL MEETING | Science behind the Greenhouse Effect recording
TITLE | Science behind the Greenhouse Effect
SPEAKER | Joanna D. Haigh CBE FRS FInstP FRMetS Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Physics. Imperial College London.
BIOGRAPHY | Joanna Haigh CBE FRS is an atmospheric physicist and was, for 5 years prior to her retirement, co-Director of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. Previously Head of Imperial’s Physics Department she has published widely in the area of climate modelling and radiative forcing of climate change; her work on how changes in solar activity influence the climate has been particularly influential.
ABSTRACT | The world is warming at a rate faster that has happened in the past largely due to the “greenhouse effect” (GHE) of gases released into the atmosphere by human activities.
This talk described how understanding of the GHE has developed since it was first proposed by Joseph Fourier in 1824 to explain the warmth of the Earth’s surface. It did go on to look at the properties of atmospheric constituents, the science of how they heat the surface, even though present in very small amounts, and how the temperature responds to increasing concentrations.