If Carbon Dioxide is heavier than air, how does is rise up to be a green house gas?

Question

What other components constitute "Greenhouse gasses"

Answer 1

Convection currents in the atmosphere (wind patterns) move the CO2 around and help to keep it mixed with other gases in the air. The more CO2 that people produce, the more there is to keep mixing with the other gases in the air. Eventually the concentration of CO2 will be high enough to reflect back the heat that is trying to radiate back into space. When this heat is trapped in the atmosphere it acts like the glass walls and roof of a "green house."

Answer 2

For those who never took a chemistry class, CO2 and CO are heavier than air, so they both tend to stay close to the ground.
The biggest greenhouse gas ever known is Al Gore. He thinks he can ride global warming hysteria all the way to the White House, but hell (or at least parts of this world that look like hell) will freeze over before that happens and even Al Gore will hope it gets warmer soon...

Answer 3

Carbon Dioxide is lighter than air. It raises. If you are in a room that is on fire you are supposed to crawl. Naturally occurring greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. Certain human activities, however, add to the levels of most of these naturally occurring gases. [1]

Answer 4

The earth is windy and wind causes a mix.

Put oil and water in a bottle and shake it...it mixes while shaken, separates when not.

CO2 is the same...if high concentrations are found, it does bottom out. In th erelative low concentrations, it mixes.

Answer 5

i bet your thinking of carbon monoxide.