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Why does san fransisco have so much fog?
the cool ocean current cools the air along the coast, causing water vapor in the atmosphere to condense and form fog.
What is bad about carbon-dioxide getting released into the atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a powerful greenhouse gas. When man releases CO2 into the atmosphere it comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), and that carbon has been safely stored underground for millions of years. So this is extra CO2.The normal carbon cycle, which moves CO2 in and out of the atmosphere, is not able to cope with this extra load, so it stays in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases capture infrared radiation and so the heat warms the earth. More CO2 means more heat, which is causing global warming.
Why is venus more hoter than Mercury?
Venus is hotter than Mercury because Venus has a atmosphere and Mercury doesn't so Mercury can't keep so much heat in as Venus can.
If the martian atmosphere is 95 percent carbon dioxide why doesn't mars have a stronger greenhouse effect?
The Martian atmosphere is 170 times thinner than that of earth. The air is so wispy there isn't enough to trap much heat.
Does Global Warming affect the temperature of the Earth's Mantle?
No. The global warming affect only involves the atmosphere. Earth's mantle generates it's own heart via the slow decay of radioisotopes, and is well insulated from the cooler atmosphere by earth's oceans and crustal rock. In general, heat dissipates, so the mantle would not gain heat from the much cooler atmosphere.
Why is the climate currently warming?
the climate is currently changing because of carbon dioxide trapping so much heat in the atmosphere
Why is carbon dioxide a pollution?
Carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels is polluting the atmosphere causing an overload to the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. We burn fossil fuels to generate electricity and to drive transport. So much extra CO2 is causing global warming.
How is the green house effect and global warming alike?
Firstly what does a greenhouse do? It keeps the heat in by stopping the heat from escaping the greenhouse. Imagine the greenhouse as the earth and that the glass is the atmosphere, the atmosphere is getting clogged with all different kinds of gases which is causing the suns heat to stay trapped in Earth which is causing it to heat up. So imagine the greenhouse gases as the windows of a greenhouse which keeps the heat in.
How does the absence of an atmosphere affect the Moon's surface temperature?
Well, atmospheres help absorb heat, so it traps in heat from the sun to make it warmer, so the absence of an atmosphere on the moon affects it by making it cooler because without an atmosphere, there is no way to trap in and keep heat.
Why does the moon get so cold and so hot?
It gets hot and cold. Hot because there is no atmosphere so the sun's rays get in much easily. Cold because there is not atmosphere to trap the heat and don't forget the moon rotates so it still has day and night.
Why does san fransisco have so much fog?
the cool ocean current cools the air along the coast, causing water vapor in the atmosphere to condense and form fog.
What part of the sun produces the majority of heat and light?
The core of the sun is so important to because with out the core will be hot
Does heat from the earths surface go through the atmosphere or get blocked?
Heat, technically, is just energy from the atoms in whatever is getting hot. Since there is nothing to heat outside the atmosphere, the heat must stay here at Earth. So, no.
Why was john glenn's capsule on fire during entry?
When the capsule begins to enter the atmosphere, the friction of the air on the bottom, or heat sheild, of the capsule creates so much heat that it looks like it is on fire.
What are green house gases or atmospheric gases?
Atmospheric gases trap heat so that Earth is not a frozen wasteland. Greenhouse gases is the term used to refer to heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide and methane because these gaseous components of the atmosphere make Earth function like a greenhouse-heat from the Sun that is reflected off the Earth is reflected back up to the atmosphere and the greenhouse gases trap some of this heat. Understand that greenhouse gases are necessary to retain some of the Sun's heat, but they are bad in excess; to much carbon dioxide( a greenhouse gas) contributes to global warming-too much heat from the Sun is trapped by the atmosphere so that temperatures on the surface rise.
What is bad about carbon-dioxide getting released into the atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a powerful greenhouse gas. When man releases CO2 into the atmosphere it comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), and that carbon has been safely stored underground for millions of years. So this is extra CO2.The normal carbon cycle, which moves CO2 in and out of the atmosphere, is not able to cope with this extra load, so it stays in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases capture infrared radiation and so the heat warms the earth. More CO2 means more heat, which is causing global warming.
Why is it important that the atmosphere allows some of the heat to release in to space?
Because it has a lot of gas to play with. So all the heat doesn't stay within the atmosphere and fry everything on the surface.
