What human activities help increase the greenhouse effect?

Answer 1

cattle/dairy farming, car driving, lawn mowing, logging, farting, burning trash..anything that increases the CO2 level.

Answer 2

Little known contributors are....back yard barbecues, disposable lighters, and surprise!!! matches!

Building with wood help curb the greenhouse effect. The carbon dioxide stored in the wood is kept there for the life of the wood. Wood in the forest that is burned by wildfires, or which is allowed to fall and decay, both contribute to the greenhouse effect. Because these release all of their CO2 into the atmosphere. This is why logging is good for the environment because the wood that is in the buildings holds on to the CO2 and the new trees that are planted suck up CO2 at a much faster rate than the older tired trees.

Answer 3

G'day Roxxie14,

Thank you for your question.

The greenhouse effect, first discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1824, and first investigated quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, is the process in which the absorption of infrared radiation by an atmosphere warms a planet. Without these greenhouse gases, the Earth's surface would be up to 30 °C cooler. The name comes from an incorrect analogy with the way in which greenhouses are heated by the sun in order to facilitate plant growth. In addition to the Earth, Mars, Venus and other celestial bodies with atmospheres (such as Titan) have greenhouse effects.

In common parlance, the term greenhouse effect may be used to refer either to the natural greenhouse effect, due to naturally occuring greenhouse gases, or to the enhanced (anthropogenic) greenhouse effect, which results from gases emitted as a result of human activities.

CO2 production from increased industrial activity (fossil fuel burning) and other human activities such as cement production and tropical deforestation has increased the CO2concentrations in the atmosphere. Measurements of carbon dioxide amounts from Mauna Loa observatory show that CO2 has increased from about 313 ppm (parts per million) in 1960 to about 375 ppm in 2005. The current observed amount of CO2 exceeds the geological record of CO2 maxima (~300 ppm) from ice core data (Hansen, J., Climatic Change, 68, 269, 2005 ISSN 0165-0009).

Because it is a greenhouse gas, elevated CO2 levels will increase global mean temperature. There has been an observed global average temperature increase of about 0.5oC since 1960 (Science 308, 1431, 2005), . Quantitative understanding of climate sensitivity to CO2 concentration remains elusive due to uncertainties in a variety of feedbacks, especially those related to clouds, but there is little doubt that a substantial portion of the warming in the last half century was caused by the increase in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.

Over the past 800,000 years, ice core data shows unambiguously that carbon dixoide has varied from values as low as 180 parts per million (ppm) to the pre-industrial level of 270ppm . Paleoclimatogists consider variations in carbon dioxide to be a fundamental factor in controlling climate variations over this time period.

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Regards and good luck with your project.

Answer 4

Al human activities, including breathing!

Answer 5

Driving a car, trashing your fridge without recycling it properly, using aerosol cans, flying anywhere for your holiday, the list is almost endless. One way you can reduce it is to recycle the majority of ALL the waste your house produces.
See the link below for info

Answer 6

increased no of automobiles using fossil fuels,more factories burningfossil fuels,deforestation

Answer 7

driving a car

Answer 8

everything. too bad ppl are so into money that they do not care about the world and our apnoshere.

Answer 9

Tomatoes.

No, really.