The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse
Use a classroom/laboratory activity that demonstrates the thermal properties of CO2, its role as a greenhouse gas, and how increased CO2 concentrations due to combustion of different hydrocarbons in fossil fuels may contribute to global warming. Ask your students if their observations of the thermal properties of CO2 and air allow them to better understand the relationship between increased atmospheric CO2 due to combustion of fossil fuels and an increase in Earth's surface temperature since the industrial revolution.
- Investigate the thermal properties of CO2, its role as a greenhouse gas, and how increased CO2 concentrations due to combustion of different hydrocarbons in fossil fuels may contribute to global warming.
- Use the classroom/laboratory activity titled "The carbon dioxide greenhouse - is it effective?" and proceed with the lab activity as instructed.
- Observe the effect of applying heat and light energy on carbon dioxide and air.
Carbon dioxide emissions factor
- Check if observations of the thermal properties of CO2 and air allow you to better understand the relationship between increased atmospheric CO2 due to combustion of fossil fuels and an increase in Earth's surface temperature since the industrial revolution.
- You may further explore impacts of climate change on local and global scales and on different sectors.
Global Fossil Fuel Consupmtion
Activity Developed by Royal Society of Chemistry, London