UQx DENIAL101x 3.3.1.1 The greenhouse effect
Channel: UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Date: 2015-05-12

Mark Richardson takes us to the Reading University Atmospheric Observatory to explain how the greenhouse effect works. He concludes by busting the myth that the greenhouse effect violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
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