One of the major problems facing our world today is global warming. “Global Warming is the increase of Earth 's average surface temperature due to effect of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would otherwise escape from Earth” (“ What is Global…”, n.d.). There is a major difference between global warming and greenhouse gases. The greenhouse effect is a natural process in earth’s atmosphere that maintains the average surface temperature. It is caused by certain gases such as water vapor, ozone (O3), carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4), and traces of chloro-fluoro-carbons (CFC 's). On the other hand, global warming appears when the greenhouse effect increases
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Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish Scientist to first discover the concept of greenhouse gasses and global warming. His main theory was that fossil fuel combustion was the reason for global warming and his research on this particular topic lasted for years. During his research he formed a connection between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and the earth’s temperature. He discovered that the earth is about 15 degrees Celsius due to water vapor and carbon dioxide. The natural occurrence of this certain temperature due to certain gasses in the atmosphere was later known as “the natural greenhouse effect”. Considering that earth’s temperature was influenced by carbon dioxide, Arrehenius and scientist Thomas Chamberlin later focused on carbon dioxide and the use of it with humans. They developed the concept that human activities could affect global warming by their excessive use of carbon dioxide that would soon contribute to a heating in earth’s temperature. Even though it was years ago when they first discovered that human activities are a large factor in contributing to global warming, many recent studies have shown and proven that this concept is true and the temperatures are increasing like never before. According to (“How is Today’s...” ,n.d), “the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. In the …show more content…
For all of the sunlight that earth absorbs, an equal amount of infrared radiation must travel from the earth back to space. If this process did not happen, there would be no global warming or global cooling in the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect refers to short wavelengths of the visible light spectrum, from the sun, to pass through a transparent medium, but longer wavelengths such as infrared radiations are not able to pass. Infrared radiation plays a major role in global warming. Global warming is produced by the trapping of the rays in earth’s atmosphere by the rising of carbon dioxide, which causes the excessive heating. The carbon dioxide absorbs most of the infrared rays and does not allow them to pass to the earth which causes them to not escape and remain
Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish Scientist to first discover the concept of greenhouse gasses and global warming. His main theory was that fossil fuel combustion was the reason for global warming and his research on this particular topic lasted for years. During his research he formed a connection between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and the earth’s temperature. He discovered that the earth is about 15 degrees Celsius due to water vapor and carbon dioxide. The natural occurrence of this certain temperature due to certain gasses in the atmosphere was later known as “the natural greenhouse effect”. Considering that earth’s temperature was influenced by carbon dioxide, Arrehenius and scientist Thomas Chamberlin later focused on carbon dioxide and the use of it with humans. They developed the concept that human activities could affect global warming by their excessive use of carbon dioxide that would soon contribute to a heating in earth’s temperature. Even though it was years ago when they first discovered that human activities are a large factor in contributing to global warming, many recent studies have shown and proven that this concept is true and the temperatures are increasing like never before. According to (“How is Today’s...” ,n.d), “the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. In the …show more content…
For all of the sunlight that earth absorbs, an equal amount of infrared radiation must travel from the earth back to space. If this process did not happen, there would be no global warming or global cooling in the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect refers to short wavelengths of the visible light spectrum, from the sun, to pass through a transparent medium, but longer wavelengths such as infrared radiations are not able to pass. Infrared radiation plays a major role in global warming. Global warming is produced by the trapping of the rays in earth’s atmosphere by the rising of carbon dioxide, which causes the excessive heating. The carbon dioxide absorbs most of the infrared rays and does not allow them to pass to the earth which causes them to not escape and remain