Following a discussion with someone unsure about anthropogenic global warming and its scientific explanation, I was wondering whether well-designed experiments that reproduce the effect in a laboratory have been conducted and published in the literature.
Basically, my first thought: A transparent container with one black surface is illuminated (mostly in the visible and near IR spectrum) and the temperature is monitored. Depending on the composition of the gas inside the container, different equilibrium temperatures should be reached.
Trying to look for some published literature, I mainly found discussions of classroom demonstrations - for example, Article 'Climate change in a shoebox': A critical review
orArticle Climate change in a shoebox: Right result, wrong physics
which clearly show that getting such a basic experiment right isn't as simple as it seems.Any pointers to additional literature, ideally with laboratory scale experiments that model the real physics as closely as possible, would be greatly appreciated!
In particular, as the above papers seem to have been inspired by classroom experiments, it seems that the compositions of the gases were not precisely known, there could have been significant inhomogenities (which perhaps could be smoothed out by a stirrer or fan) and direct heating of the gas by absorption of the significant infrared part of the illumination. Perhaps the latter could be controlled by filtering out the IR parts of the spectrum of the light source.