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2006-12-07 06:27:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Water Vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide is blamed for the increase in greenhouse warming, but carbon dioxide only makes up about .035% of the atmosphere.
2006-12-07 06:36:15 · answer #1 · answered by Pecos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water Vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, which is why it is addressed here first. However, changes in its concentration is also considered to be a result of climate feedbacks related to the warming of the atmosphere rather than a direct result of industrialization. The feedback loop in which water is involved is critically important to projecting future climate change, but as yet is still fairly poorly measured and understood.
2006-12-07 08:38:51 · answer #2 · answered by chris102188 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water vapour is a vapour not a gas (picky, picky, picky !) but it is does exert the strongest greenhouse effect. Given the absolutely huge volumes of cloud, fog and invisible water vapour in the atmosphere its funny that it seldom gets mentioned........
2006-12-07 08:50:23 · answer #3 · answered by black sheep 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ouch! I misread the question. The correct answer is water vapor (I missed "greenhouse in the sentence the first time and answered nitrogen).
2006-12-07 06:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by A Person 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most abundant greenhouse gas and the term carbon emissions is used to refer to the largely anthropogenic (man made) production of this gas, created through the burning of fossil fuels.
2006-12-07 06:29:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Carbon Dioxide, makes up 381 Parts per million, while methane and nitrous oxide only make up respectively 1,745 and 314 parts per BILLION.
2006-12-07 06:31:14 · answer #6 · answered by Joy M 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
carbon dioxide or CO2
2006-12-07 14:10:14 · answer #7 · answered by k_man_su 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's water vapour.
2006-12-07 06:28:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
carbon di-oxide
2006-12-07 06:32:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
methane gas from farts
2006-12-07 06:29:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋