Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video “Simple Experiment”

I've seen other tests of co2 in a bottle that did not show a measurable increase (in fact I don't think it went up as much), I tried to find that link, but couldn't. This isn't the one, but it's close. Also note, if you look at the spectrum for CO2 below, using a IR lamp will give totally different results than using something between -50 to 100F.

I would like to see the results if someone posts them. I also wish someone would run the test with specific amounts of co2 and water in a box bigger than a breadbox.

With all of the Physicists here, maybe someone can help me with this.

With 70% of the earth covered in water, and this being the fftir spectrum for condensed water


First wouldn't the radiated ir have this spectrum, and not the default blackbody spectrum?

Second, with this being CO2


How would you calculate the coupling coefficient in the 13-17um wavelengths.

This is the great thing about the Internet and why blogging does more fact-checking than journalism.  There may be nothing to this, though it seems odd to splice together different takes for something as simple as putting a tube in a jar - but the standard for validity goes way up when you have skeptics rather than acolytes looking at the work.

Why I doubt it is faked?  Al Gore and company have seen it all by now so they knew putting this out there for the world would get scrutiny and wouldn't have done that if there was a real issue.

Robert: I hope you feel better soon.

In reply to your question: Al Gore has not faked an experiment - Anthony Watts himself has said so.

The good thing about that WUWT article is that it is so long that only the most devoted fans will read it.
The bad thing is that ... ditto.  Which means that the well-buried assertion that the experiment is a valid one and has been replicated will likely escape the notice of most people.

I have cited this in my most recent article.

... while some might say the stagecraft involved in the Climate 101 presentation wasn’t dishonest it was most assuredly staged with great literary license and dramatization of an effect that was experimentally verified elsewhere ...
Anthony Watts