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Ample physical evidence shows that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the single most important climate-relevant greenhouse gas in Earth’s atmosphere. This is because CO2, like ozone, N2O, CH4, and chlorofluorocarbons, does not condense and precipitate from the atmosphere at current climate temperatures, whereas water vapor can and does. [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6002/356 A more rigorous scientific explanation.] | Ample physical evidence shows that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the single most important climate-relevant greenhouse gas in Earth’s atmosphere. This is because CO2, like ozone, N2O, CH4, and chlorofluorocarbons, does not condense and precipitate from the atmosphere at current climate temperatures, whereas water vapor can and does. [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6002/356 A more rigorous scientific explanation.] | ||
Foote’s 1856 experiment was simple: she placed glass jars containing different gases out in the sun and measured their temperature. The jars with carbon dioxide were hottest, and therefore had absorbed the most heat. Writing up her results, she generalized this dynamic to the planet as a whole — and speculated that it might have caused past eras to be hotter or colder. “No one deconstructed the atmosphere, and tested that deconstruction, until Eunice Foote’s breakthrough experiments,” [https://howwegettonext.com/the-forgotten-woman-who-discovered-the-greenhouse-effect-ad954a6ea7d9?fbclid=IwAR0z6UbQcBcLKZC5sATtujIVLr9EshlNQYWZ7g7pTGnkIRaVhUZNnlwf7co Next-The Woman who Unlocked the Greenhouse effect 5/05/2019] | |||
===== Next: Is there an anthropomorphic (human) connection between the steady rises in Co2 and other greenhouse gases and the historic increase in the burning of fossil fuels?===== | ===== Next: Is there an anthropomorphic (human) connection between the steady rises in Co2 and other greenhouse gases and the historic increase in the burning of fossil fuels?===== | ||
