I was reading this question about destroying safety data from CD's and I was about to recommend in a comment to use this laser in form of a lighter that is >2000 times more powerful than the sun in which video the poster is being seen how he literally melts some CD's.
Which leads me to this question, I've seen warnings in labels of DVD/CD's that says "Don't expose to heat or direct sunlight" but I don't know the effects of, for example, 5 seconds exposed to the sunlight while I insert them into a drive in outsiders.
I know that the prolonged exposition would heat the material and damaged it, but does the sunlight alone without taking into account the temperature does the same effect or is the damage to the media done in some other way?