Green house effect

by N.Pavan kumar
(Kavali,Andrapradesh,India.)

Green house effect

Green house effect

This picture shows The progressive warming up of the earth's surface...

...due to blanketing effect of man made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Jumping Jack Flash it's a Gas Gas Gas

The four major green house gases, which cause adverse effects are Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide and Chloro- fluro-carbons. Among these Carbon dioxide is the most common and important greenhouse gas. Here it should also be noted that Ozone and SO2 also act as serious pollutants in causing global warming.

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PAVAN KUMAR.N

Barry's Response - Well, thank you Pavan. In Canada, our major industries report annual greenhouse gas emissions to the federal government. When doing so, they estimate the effectiveness of methane, CH4 to be 21 times stronger than carbon dioxide, CO2. Nitrous oxide, N2O, is 310 times more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2. We use these numbers to calculate CO2e.


What's that?

These fudge factors calculate how much incremental global warming shall result from the release of a given mass of each of these gases, according to current global warming greenhouse effect theory. Government regulators call the expected net impact the Global Warming Potential.

Find more about the two CO2 equivalency concepts, Carbon dioxide equivalent (CDE) and Equivalent carbon dioxide (CO2e) on this Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co2e

See how this group of air quality testers does the data collection and reporting for their clients.

Is there anything cooking in the greenhouse?


"Greenhouse Effect." Sounds nice, doesn't it? Tomatoes and basil grow in a backyard glass dome. There's no tomato patch covering the Earth - it's a thermodynamic beast that shrugs off Ice Ages.

The sun hits the Earth, some bounces off (thanks to clouds, glaciers, and aluminum roofs), and the rest gets absorbed. Methane and its rowdy cousins CO2, N2O, and CFCs trap some of this heat like a quilt.

There's no tax on your teapot yet, but water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas. CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) is how we measure gas potency. In terms of Global Warming Potential, methane is 21x stronger than CO2. For N2O, do 310 times. For CFCs, don't ask. What if volcanoes, wetlands, and termites are also involved?

The climate is local, not global. In Alberta, our buns are frozen in May and sunburned in September. Why? Jet Streams, Sun cycles, ocean oscillations, so backyard BBQs aren't everything.

Clean air matters

So does clean thinking. For fun though, let's try Culture & Literature:
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- It's like Dante's Inferno's descending circles of bureaucratic hell.
- "Falsehoods don't cease to be falsehoods when they become fashions." by Chesterton
- According to George Carlin, "The planet is fine. The people are f***ed...but we'll tax their cow farts."

The Greenhouse Effect rethought

Let's move past guilt trips and melting polar bears. Try data, nuance, and humour. CO2 has a role, but it's not king. Solar flares, planetary wobbles, deep ocean currents, and humans all influence the climate.

We're not dumb or helpless. Think and see. Next generation deserves clean, fearless air. So let them know what's going on, not what's going wrong. Feel free to make a comment below.

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starstarstarstar 		Earth is confused & disabled by our actions.
by: ufaira

We should save and protect our earth by saving
its natural resources.

From Barry - Hey Ufaira, what a poetic way of putting it: "Earth is confused and disabled by our actions." It sounds like our planet is having an existential crisis - maybe it lost its magnetic field or something. It's been around longer than fashion trends, Instagram outrage, and tofu.

Do we affect the climate? Yes, especially when it comes to changing land cover and burning fuels. Confused isn't quite the right word, though. It's all physics - solar energy in, infrared radiation out, chaotic feedback loops in between.

Weather is day-to-day chaos - snowstorms in April, hailstorms in June. What's the climate? That's the moving average over 30 years. For millennia, the climate has danced: ice ages, warm periods, mega-droughts, monsoons.

Your heart's in the right place. Protecting natural resources is smart - not just for the planet, but for us too. Water, forests, and fertile soil aren't luxury items. Gear you need for survival.

The planet isn't fragile - but our systems are, the climate isn't broken - but our models might be, and while nature isn't lost, our wisdom might need a reboot.

Plant trees, reduce waste, rethink energy, and live lighter. Don't panic, embrace curiosity, and read the clouds.

Thanks for sharing, Ufaira. Make the Earth guess in a good way.

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