Greenhouse gases are components of the atmosphere that contribute to the Greenhouse effect. Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities. 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
2007-03-17 13:00:36
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answered by DanE 7
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Heat the planet by not allowing heat to reenter space. Cure: write Al Gore about:
Putting the technology together to start cleaning up and reintroducing new ozone to the atmosphere is possible. The cost and size of this project means taking a long term commitment. I am proposing the biggest cleanup in history. Al, I do not see any proposal that is realistic or proven at any cost, not even Washington can solve this problem. But if every person on earth does his or her share, we may be ok. Never-the-less, I see governments acting like a deer in a car’s headlights and people doing the same thing. The inevitable is almost upon us. Cleanup and change is the only option.
The first cleanup machine starts with a ten billion dollars investment. Ten year later with twenty-five machines operating, these machines will produce enough ozone to replace both holes at the poles. But more importantly, these machines will remove chemicals that deplete the ozone. Beyond making ozone, decreasing the poisons that deplete ozone, these machines reduce the major greenhouse gases and unbelievably we can have all this for fewer than one hundred billion dollars.
Beyond cleaning up our atmospheric mess as I am suggesting, we humans must do a better job reducing or cleaning up carbon monoxide, collecting and storing methane and ethane for fuel, burning less of everything, cleaning up our forests and using more solar insolation. Solar steam electric generators are the type of systems we need and are 90 percent efficient and near 100 percent if heat recovery is used. I believe nearly 30,000 MW are needed in the USA and Mexico over the next 30 years. This opens the door to new electric cars, new construction vital to our way of life, new bullet trains, and these industries produce new high paying jobs. From small scale solar generators on malls, to 2000 acre collector sights, these systems are viable and ready for production. The Federal Government must give up some land, money and have less regulation to help save the planet from disaster.
Al, spreading the message that we can help ourselves is a key to the development of these businesses. Washington can help: the businesses need grants, patents, land and regulations. Congress must create a pollution surcharge. From gas, coal, diesel, wood to cooling towers, from cattle, other ranches to cigarettes, from agriculture burning to airplane passengers, this surcharge can fund parts of these projects and many stationary pollution control devices in general.
Your personal support is very important to getting the atmosphere cleanup started and developing sights for solar generators.
Sincerely,
2007-03-17 20:40:50
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answered by RayM 4
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Several of them, they act like a blanket trapping heat from the sun. They've been around since the planet was formed.
Main ones by volume are carbon dioxide (99.4%) and methane (0.5%).
Most damaging ones are the halogens - all man made, best known are the CFC's (chloroflourocarbons). Have a global warming potential of between 1800 and 32000 times that of carbon dioxide.
Ones that contribute most to global warming are carbon dioxide 72.3%, nitrous oxide 18.4%, methane 7.9% and dichlorodifluoromethane 0.9%, all the others contribute less than 1% between them.
CO2 in largest quantities but not particularly effective at retaining heat, methane is 23 times better, nitrous oxide is 296 times better and dichlorodifluoromethane is 8500 times better.
More info here... http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/causes.html
2007-03-17 20:20:28
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answered by Trevor 7
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are any gases that can not pass threw the atmosphere and that are trapped causeing the atmosphere to hot in more heat from the sun making the earth hotter.
think thats what they are
2007-03-17 20:39:06
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answered by bwoodart0902 1
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What about them? Water vapor is the main greenhouse gas.
2007-03-17 19:59:41
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answered by Anonymous
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Yeah... I know
2007-03-17 20:01:07
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answered by knownothing 2
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Shoe horn.
2007-03-17 20:11:13
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answered by Anonymous
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and
2007-03-17 20:19:20
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answered by Sm1l3y 2
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