Global Warming
In about 1800, French scientist Jean Baptiste-Joseph Fourier proposed the theory that the gases of the atmosphere were involved in trapping the Sun's heat, like a hothouse or greenhouse.
Sixty years later, John Tyndall, a British scientist, experimentally proved that heat was absorbed by carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O).
Since CO2 and H2O are known to absorb heat, it is quite certain they have something to do with global warming. In addition to CO2 and H2O, methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), ozone (O3), and chlorofluorocarbons are "greenhouse gases," while nitrogen and oxygen are not. This ability to trap heat is a result of their molecular structure and shape.
Environmental Effects
Global warming is the eventual increase of global climates due to an inordinate amount of chloroflauocarbons (CFC's) in the earth's atmosphere. These CFC's lead to what is known as the green house effect, an occurrence that disables radiation from the sun to escape the atmosphere because of large presence of the gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFC's. Since this radiation can't escape, it stays within the atmosphere causing increased warmth-much as a greenhouse functions for a nursery.
In about 1800, French scientist Jean Baptiste-Joseph Fourier proposed the theory that the gases of the atmosphere were involved in trapping the Sun's heat, like a hothouse or greenhouse.
Sixty years later, John Tyndall, a British scientist, experimentally proved that heat was absorbed by carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O).
Since CO2 and H2O are known to absorb heat, it is quite certain they have something to do with global warming. In addition to CO2 and H2O, methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), ozone (O3), and chlorofluorocarbons are "greenhouse gases," while nitrogen and oxygen are not. This ability to trap heat is a result of their molecular structure and shape.
Environmental Effects
Global warming is the eventual increase of global climates due to an inordinate amount of chloroflauocarbons (CFC's) in the earth's atmosphere. These CFC's lead to what is known as the green house effect, an occurrence that disables radiation from the sun to escape the atmosphere because of large presence of the gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFC's. Since this radiation can't escape, it stays within the atmosphere causing increased warmth-much as a greenhouse functions for a nursery.
