How can you simulate global warming with an experiment? You could earn 10 Points!?

Question

If you have a website, that will be fine, but an experiment where I can simulate both global warming and the greenhouse affect, and the person with the best will get 10 points.

Answer 1

Simple:

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/earth/ear...

More involved:

http://nagt.org/files/nagt/jge/abstracts...

Answer 2

Build 2 shallow window boxes with a black background, and make them airtight. Fill one with CO2, put them both in sunlight, and measure the temperature.

Answer 3

on a small scale you cant really simulate global warming. but you can simulate the effects of global warming.

the sun can be represented by a normal light bulb, the ice caps are blocks of ice and for forests just use plants.

Answer 4

Benjamin_

The first example is a good demonstration of the green house effect, but the explaination of what is happening is totally incorrect.  Also, this has nothing to do with green house gases.

The second is much better.

Answer 5

Make a small building out of glass or clear plastic,sealed tight. That's a greenhouse.  The CO2 from 200 years of burning fossil fuels is acting like the glass in the greenhouse. Yes the 'deniers' are correct when they say that there has been global warming in the past. The thing is,all the extra CO2 that we've put up in the atmosphere is causing warming at rates NEVER before seen on Earth! The 'normal' rates of climate change have been measured in thousands of years. Now we are seeing change in just decades! Do you like Science? Get a degree,and see for yourself how the scientists can 'simulate' how climate change occurs from CO2 amounts increasing so rapidly.