TITLE:
Qualitative Considerations on the Influence of the Gases Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide on the Global Environmental Temperature from the Point of View of Textbook Knowledge
AUTHORS:
Wolfram Vogelsberger
KEYWORDS:
Global Temperature, Irradiation, Dynamic Equilibrium, Heat Capacity, Greenhouse Effect
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science,
Vol.13 No.1,
January
19,
2023
ABSTRACT: The solar radiation that hits the Earth conditions the dynamic
equilibrium that prevails on our planet. Consideration of basic
physical-chemical knowledge shows that this equilibrium can be changed only by
additional energy input or prolongation of the interaction time solar radiation—Earth
matter. The contribution of H2O(g) and CO2 to the protection
of the earth against excessive warming is experimentally and by basic laws of
nature secured. For a greenhouse effect, a part of the earth radiation must be
radiated back to the earth and then into space. If one understands the earth
radiation as radiation of a black body with the average global environmental
temperature, from all vibrations normal modes of the gases H2O(g)
and CO2 only the bending mode of CO2 with 4% of the solar
constant can contribute beside the rotational modes of the water to the
greenhouse effect. The contributions of the normal modes of H2O(g)
and CO2 to the heat capacity of the atmosphere are negligible.
Therefore, in agreement with studies by K. Ångström, CO2 contributes
only to the stabilization of the global environmental temperature. Whether the
use of renewable energies can actually at least mitigate the increase of the
environmental temperature is by no means certain but must be examined for each
individual case. With certainty, this goal can only be achieved by reducing the
energy consumption of mankind.