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How are increasing levels of CO2 responsible for warming the surface of Earth?
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How many gases are responsible for global warming?
They have varying 'levels' of Impact; at least Ten Different Molecules fit this description.
What is the cause of global warming the gradual increase in global temperatures being observed today?
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
What do greenhouses gases trap?
Greenhouse gases trap infrared heat (from the sun) rising from the surface of the earth. More greenhouse gases trap more heat, and this is the situation now. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in particular are trapping more heat and causing a global warming.
What name is given to warming of the earth due to increased levels of carbon dioxide?
The warming of the earth due to increased levels of carbon dioxide is called the Greenhouse effect. Global warming is a result of the greenhouse effect.
An increase in the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide is the biggest contributor to What?
An increase in the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide is the biggest contributor to global warming.
What causes warming of the climate?
Increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap more heat, causing warming.
What are the causes of global warming in seasons?
Global warming is not related to the seasons. Global warming is caused by increasing levels of certain gases, the greenhouse gases, that absorb infrared radiation emitted from the surface of the earth. The energy then doesn't escape as efficiently as it would otherwise.
Does increasing sea level cause an increase in precipitation?
No, not necessarily. Global warming, which is causing increasing sea levels, is also responsible for climate change. Climate change may mean more rainfall in some areas, and less in others. It is not possible yet to forecast where or how much this will happen.
What happens to solar radiation that is not reflected back into the atmosphere?
Some is absorbed by the atmosphereSome is absorbed by clouds and particles in the atmosphereThe rest reaches and warms the surface of the earth.This warmth rises from the surface as infrared energy. Much of it is captured by the ever-increasing levels of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane). This increasing warmth is happening globally, global warming.
What does globe warming mean?
Global warming is the effect of increasing Carbo Dioxide (CO2) levels in the earth's atmosphere which trap the heat thus causing the earth to gradually warm up.
What human activities have led to increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
one of them is people drive cars another is globle warming
What is caused by increasing the burning of fossil fuels?
Enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effectIcreased levels of carbon dioxideThis is causing global warming.
What is more important global warming or cleaning up rubbish?
Although refuse (or "rubbish") is a problem, it is not as pervasive or threatening a problem as that of anthropogenic global warming. Garbage isn't melting glaciers, increasing sea levels, or increasing the size, intensity and violence of storms.
What gases cause global warming and how?
Greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane, mostly) cause global warming by increasing their levels in the atmosphere. This turns the benign greenhouse effect into an accelerated greenhouse effect which is causing global warming.
How many gases are responsible for global warming?
They have varying 'levels' of Impact; at least Ten Different Molecules fit this description.
What person saw the global warming fist?
The Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius noted the potential effect of increasing atmospheric CO2 levels in 1896.
What is the cause of global warming the gradual increases in global temperatures being observed today?
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
