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The trend, unfortunately, is rising. Two hundred years ago carbon dioxide levels were around 280 ppm (parts per million) and had been that way for thousands of years. Now (2014) levels have reached 400 ppm or 0.04%. They have been rising every year since global warming began.
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Would increases in carbon dioxide in your atmosphere cause a cooling trend?
No, increases in carbon dioxide in your atmosphere would cause a warming trend.
Is sun spot cycles or carbon dioxide in the atmosphere more important for global warming?
Both sunspot cycles and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere play a role in global warming, but carbon dioxide has a much larger impact. The increase in carbon dioxide levels from burning fossil fuels is the primary driver of the current warming trend. Sunspot cycles have a smaller influence on the Earth's climate compared to human activities.
What would the graph of carbon dioxide storage look like?
The graph of carbon dioxide storage typically shows an increasing trend over time due to human activities such as deforestation and burning of fossil fuels. This results in a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. Efforts to mitigate this include carbon capture and storage technologies, reforestation, and reducing emissions.
What is the trend on production of carbon dioxide when metal carbonates react with HCl?
The carbonates of the metals in group I reacts easily.
What contributes to atmospheric carbon dioxide?
In the absence of anthropogenic activities, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere would be fairly static. Animals exhale carbon dioxide, but vegetation converts this back into edible products that are then consumed by those animals. Similarly, rotting vegetation gives off carbon dioxide, but the vegetation is soon replaced by new vegetation that requires the same amount of carbon. The natural cycle contributes no net increase in carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. Even burning wood or paper has no net effect on atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, although cutting down trees for wood or paper could do so if new trees are not allowed to grown and absorb as much carbon as the trees cut down. So, CO2 concentrations had remained around 260-280 parts per million (ppm) until the time of the Industrial revolution, when the level of CO2 began to rise in line with increasing use of fossil fuels. The increase from 260-280 ppm to the present 390 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide is almost entirely due to human activities. The main cause is by burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. Another important cause is deforestation, mainly as land-clearing for farming. _______________________________________________________________ There is absolutely zero scientific evidence to make the claim that carbon dioxide has ever been "fairly static". The science behind the levels of carbon dioxide differ vastly from the political viewpoint stated. CO2 has varied by about 800 years behind temperature. This is a well known trend for the past 650K years according to all available data. The current upward trend started well over 10,000 years ago, shortly after the temperatures started to rise. Carbon dioxide has always followed temperature. With the current warming trend now at over 10 degrees C, it is a normal and expected occurrence that CO2 levels would eventually follow. Levels as low as 190 ppm have been observed in the past 10,000 years, as well as levels (reported by Noble winning science experts from the 1800's) of well over 400 ppm. (Beck 2008). The overall trend for CO2 has been upward almost non stop for the past 9,300 years. There have been fluctuations, but this is the undisputed trend. Man's production of less than 6% of all CO2 is possibly a partial contributor to the current levels of CO2. That is a very possible scenario. Nature's production of 94% is a known cause of increase. To blame man as the sole reason for increase though is misleading and absolutely false. We know that the levels of CO2 rose over 100 ppm prior to man starting to use any coal. The one undisputed fact of CO2 increase is the know relationship between temperature and the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere. Temperature causes CO2 to rise. This is a known event. Human additions are a speculative (albeit possible) issue.
Would increases in carbon dioxide in your atmosphere cause a cooling trend?
No, increases in carbon dioxide in your atmosphere would cause a warming trend.
Is sun spot cycles or carbon dioxide in the atmosphere more important for global warming?
Both sunspot cycles and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere play a role in global warming, but carbon dioxide has a much larger impact. The increase in carbon dioxide levels from burning fossil fuels is the primary driver of the current warming trend. Sunspot cycles have a smaller influence on the Earth's climate compared to human activities.
What happened to the earth's climate after Rodinia broke up?
With the break up of the supercontinenent, Rodinia, there were of course many smaller continents which led to more rainfall and consequently less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (since rain "washes" the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere). As a result of less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, temperatures dropped and ice began to form in polar regions.
What would the graph of carbon dioxide storage look like?
The graph of carbon dioxide storage typically shows an increasing trend over time due to human activities such as deforestation and burning of fossil fuels. This results in a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. Efforts to mitigate this include carbon capture and storage technologies, reforestation, and reducing emissions.
Global warming is the result of increases in what?
Global warming is the result of increases in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, which trap heat and lead to a warming trend in global temperatures. Other factors such as deforestation and industrial activities also contribute to global warming by releasing additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
What may increase of carbon dioxide in the earths atmosphere lead to?
contamination of air, overgroth of plants, increased chances of fires, higher sea levels, more carbon dioxide (from fires), lower sea levels as the CO2 gets even higher, eventually if the trend continues you will have either a Mars or Venus left of Earth.
What is the trend on production of carbon dioxide when metal carbonates react with HCl?
The carbonates of the metals in group I reacts easily.
What is the reason for global warming?
DeforestationBurning of fossil fuel, coal, oil and natural gas.To answer, it is important to understand the global climate is a balance that has been achieved through natural processes that can be boiled down to two effects: greenhouse gas production or emission, and greenhouse gas consumption. Greenhouse gases are gases in our atmosphere that retain heat from sources such as the sun instead of letting excess heat emit out into space. The more greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide) are present in the atmosphere, the more heat will build up in the earth's atmosphere. There are several factors on both sides, but -- prior to the widescale use of fossil fuels by humans such as oil or coal, the primary sources of greenhouse gas emissions were breathing by animals, wildfires and volcanoes and the primary consumption (or reduction) in greenhouse gases is from the process plants use called photosynthesis, in which they take in carbon dioxide and sunlight, use the carbon out of the carbon dioxide, and release free oxygen. By using the carbon (to make sugars, using energy they have from sunlight to separate the carbon from carbon dioxide), they take it out of the atmosphere.Over eons, nature achieves something of a balance between production and consumption of carbon dioxide; the level does not hold precisely steady, but had achieved a gradual reduction in carbon dioxide over time and an increase in pure oxygen. For a certain amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a certain amount of the sun's heat will stay in the earth's atmosphere (heating up our atmosphere) instead of being let out into space (letting our atmosphere cool down).Anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming is occurring because we have greatly increased the emission of carbon dioxide, putting more in than photosynthesis can take out, and we have also clear-cut large swaths of forest, meaning nature can no longer remove as much carbon out of the atmosphere as it could. This has radically flipped the carbon dioxide trend from gradual reduction of carbon dioxide to relatively rapid increase in carbon dioxide. Since carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, this means that the atmosphere will retain more heat and the global climate will have an overall increase in temperature, what we call global warming.pollution
How much hotter is the earth since the levels of carbon dioxide went up?
The Earth's average temperature has increased by about 1°C (1.8°F) since the late 19th century, primarily due to increased levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This warming trend is expected to continue unless significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are achieved.
What best describes measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels since 1958?
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been steadily increasing since 1958, when consistent measurements began at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. This rise is primarily due to human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, which release CO2 into the atmosphere. The measurements show a clear upward trend, highlighting the impact of human activities on the Earth's climate.
Could the greenhouse effect occur on other planets?
The greenhouse effect is happening on any planet with greenhouse gas. Mars, as an example has greenhouse gases in it's atmosphere and has seen warming over the past hundred years similar to our warming trend. Venus, with an atmosphere of 96.5% carbon dioxide, has a runaway greenhouse effect which has caused the oceans to boil dry.
Why does the earth warm when people pollute?
It doesn't, exactly. The issue is not so much pollution in general as carbon dioxide specifically. Carbon dioxide is what's called a "greenhouse gas" because it tends to trap heat. If the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere goes up significantly, more heat is trapped, meaning the temperature goes up. Some other pollutants are also greenhouse gases, but not all of them, and not all pollution generally. The controversy over global warming is not about whether or not this happens... no one who knows anything at all about the subject seriously doubts that it happens. The disagreement is to what extent it happens, and whether or not the warming trend seen is a) an actual trend rather than simply random chance, and b) caused by humans as opposed to being a natural variation.
