Can anyone name all of the greenhouse gases?

Question

Can anyone name all of the greenhouse gases?

Answer 1

There's carbon dioxide,methane,CFC's,nitrous oxide,water vapor.

Answer 2

My farts, Your farts, Your mums farts, and lukes fat!

Answer 3

For you to understand how you must fully understand the greenhouse effect.

I'll gladly share my knowledge (and btw the greenhouse gasses are listed at the bottom) okay so pay attention!:

The Greenhouse Effect:

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon, which helps maintain the relatively stable, livable, range of temperatures that we find on earth. To better understand how this phenomenon works, scientists have used the analogy of the greenhouse. In a greenhouse, the glass (the atmosphere) allows the radiant energy (light) of the sun to enter. As the radiant energy strikes various plants, gases, and objects in the greenhouse, they heat up. Their heat is then released back into the air of the greenhouse as infrared radiation (heat). This infrared radiation cannot travel through the glass and remains inside the greenhouse, increasing the temperature inside the greenhouse. Temperatures can be controlled, or kept in balance, by allowing some of the heat to remain inside and some to be vented to the outside. Under normal conditions, the earth's atmosphere works in a similar manner. Solar radiation enters the atmosphere and heats up the air molecules, the surface of the earth, buildings, plants, and other objects. These objects in turn, radiate infrared radiation back out into the atmosphere, where some of this radiation is absorbed by the greenhouse gases, and some is radiated out into space. As some of the heat stays in the atmosphere and some escapes into spaces, a balance is maintained allowing our planet to have a relatively stable range of temperatures. Scientists believe that as the greenhouse gases become more abundant in the atmosphere, due mainly to the burning of fossil fuels, they retain more and more infrared radiation, allowing less and less to escape into space, tipping the balance toward heating up the atmosphere, resulting in a changing and warmer climate, planet-wide. This is the accelerated greenhouse effect.

What gases are considered the “greenhouse gases”?Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Methane

Carbon Dioxide: 0.01-0.1% of our atmosphere.

About the gas:

Carbon dioxide : Carbon dioxide is important to both plants and animals. Plants use carbon dioxide in the process of photosynthesis. By this process, they make use of and store the chemical energy in the food they consume. As a by-product of photosynthesis, plants make oxygen, which is essential to most organisms for use in the process of respiration. Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere as a by-product of the process of respiration taking place in living organisms and when fossil fuels (like oil, coal, and gasoline) are burned.

Methane: .01% of our atmosphere

About the gas:

Methane: Like carbon dioxide, methane is a greenhouse gas whose molecules absorb infrared heat in the atmosphere, contributing to the earth's natural greenhouse effect. Increased emission of methane is second only to carbon dioxide in contributing to the accelerating the greenhouse effect

Water Vapor: 0-7% of our atmosphere

About the gas:

Water vapor: Water vapor forms clouds and rainfall. In addition, water vapor in the atmosphere behaves like a greenhouse gas, trapping infrared heat that is trying to escape from the earth to space. The presence of water vapor in the atmosphere significantly strengthens the earth's natural greenhouse effect

All of this really facinates me ahd I hope I helped you see and understand this amazing phenomenon.

Good luck!

How do Greenhouse Gases Make it Warmer?

Certain trace gases in the atmosphere maintain the Earth's temperature at the average level that we have today. These gases are commonly referred to as "greenhouse gases", and the most important ones that may be influenced directly by human activity are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFC's - chlorinated fluorocarbons such as Freon. In addition, water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas, but its concentration depends mainly on evaporation and rainfall, not on human activity. All these constituents are distributed in the atmosphere from the surface to high altitude.

Incoming radiation energy from the Sun, mostly visible light, penetrates the atmosphere and reaches the Earth's surface, where it is partly absorbed. The heated surface radiates some energy back to space, but at infrared wavelengths, much longer than visible light. The figure shows the path of radiation. The greenhouse gases in the atmosphere transmit the incoming visible light, but stop some of the outgoing infrared, trapping it between the atmosphere and the surface.

This trapped infrared energy heats both the atmosphere and the surface and maintains the mean global temperature of the Earth at a "warm" 59° F (or 15° C). Without these greenhouse gases, all the infrared radiation would be lost to space, and the Earth's global temperature would be near 0° F (or -18° C), a very inhospitable environment. Also, without the blanket of the atmosphere including the greenhouse gases, the day side of the earth would be hot and the night side very cold like a desert or the Moon.

The name "greenhouse" comes from analogy with a glass greenhouse for plants. Here the visible solar radiation penetrates the glass, but some of the infrared re-emitted by the interior of the greenhouse is trapped by the glass and allows the interior air of the greenhouse to be maintained at a comfortably warm temperature. (The interior of a car in the summer is similar.) Of course a greenhouse also keeps plants warm by sheltering them from the wind, which is a different effect.

Sources and Losses of Greenhouse Gases

The amount of greenhouse gas is a balance between how fast the gas is put into the atmosphere (source) and how rapidly it is lost. We are interested in how human activities are altering the naturally occurring levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).

Before factories were common (the pre-industrial age 1750-1800), levels of CO2 were about 280 ppmv (parts per million volume) whereas in 1990, levels were at 353 ppmv. Pre-industrial levels of methane were 0.8 ppmv whereas in 1990, levels were at 1.72 ppmv. We think that human activity has caused much of the increase. Major sources of CO2 include fossil fuel burning and biomass (plants) burning, both natural and by humans. Volcanic gases are another source of carbon dioxide. Sources of methane include rice fields, digestive waste from ruminant animals (cattle, sheep, wild animals), coal mining, wetlands and natural gas venting, and biomass burning (incomplete combustion). Industrial processes are the only source of CFC's.

Natural processes also remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Plants absorb the gas as they grow, trapping it until they die and decay. So reduction of forests and other agricultural practices by humans may change the absorption of carbon dioxide. The ocean absorbs large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. After absorption the CO2 ultimately converts to calcium carbonate, or is re-emitted to the atmosphere. Human activity doesn't change absorption by the ocean. There are almost no processes that remove CFC's from the atmosphere. They have a long lifetime - possibly more than a century.

In the absence of other effects the global average temperature is related to the amount of CO2and CH4 in the atmosphere. Hence human activities, which have likely increased the levels of CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere, may very well result in an increase in the mean global temperature. Large-scale computer models developed to study the Earth's climate predict this effect.

Complications - for those who like such things

The situation is not simple since there are other factors involved. For example, water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas. You might think that if it is warmer the ocean would evaporate more, putting more vapor into the air, which would make it still warmer. However, a warmer and moister climate might make more plants grow, and these tend to remove carbon dioxide. Moreover, if the water vapor condenses into clouds (which are not vapor but liquid water drops of ice crystals) the white clouds reflect sunlight back into space (an effect called albedo) before it can warm the Earth. You can see that the Earth's atmosphere is part of a complicated system.

CO2 and CH4 Measurements

Recent

Since the mid-1950's, CO2 measurements have been made at the NOAA Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii. The location of the observatory away from local sources of CO2 and in relatively clean oceanic air gives confidence that the measurements represent general global atmospheric CO2 levels.

The regular variation seen in the CO2 is yearly and is due to the summer to winter difference in photosynthetic activity of plants and trees. The overall upward trend is evident. A network of stations around the world measuring CO2 show similar effects.

Several stations also measure methane, which has the same behavior as CO2, although there is less of it.

In the Past

The concentration of greenhouse gases before there were observatories like Mauna Loa, is measured in tiny air bubbles trapped in glacial ice long ago. Data are from hundreds to as long as 160,000 years ago.

Air Temperature Measurements

Recent

As CO2 concentrations have increased over the last hundred years the question arises: Has the earth's temperature also risen during this time? The expected increase in temperature given the CO2 increase is 1.0-1.9° C, although the ocean might affect this increase (the thermal inertia of the ocean), making it half as large.

The global air temperature is the most commonly used measure of the climate. Weather stations have recorded temperature reliably since about 1860 and these data can be compared with modern data. Analysis of ocean surface temperature change has also been made on the basis of ship data. For times before there were measuring