please help. Thanks a lot.
2007-02-08 13:46:40 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Burning Fossil Oil and Deforestation.
Burned Fossil Oil (CO2) creates a barrier in the Earth's atmosphere, that excessive heat will just bounce back into earth and could not leak out, making earth like an oven.
The Earth could not cure itself to create more oxygen without forest.
2007-02-08 16:56:12 · answer #1 · answered by wacky_racer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one is clouds, they allow infra-red, and ultra-violet rays pass through them to warm the earth on cloudy days, then the rays go back up to the clouds, and bounce back to earth due to the bottom of the cloud being more reflective than the top.
second is water vapor in the atmosphere, which traps heat in the atmosphere.
you probably thought I would talk about CO2, Methane, and all the other greenhouse gasses, but there are many things that affect our environment, and not all are so obvious.
2007-02-08 22:29:07 · answer #2 · answered by Kathy O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋