Greenhouse effect basis

The Royal Society (London), The Greenhouse Effect the scientific basis for policy. Submission to the House of Lords Select Committee, 40 pp. (1989). See also Global Climate Change, Information Pamphlet (12 pp.) i.ssued by the American Chemical Society (1990) B. Hileman, Global Warming, Chem. Eng. News, April 27, 7-19 (1992) and references cited therein. 

Ordinary air contains a variable amount of water vapor, but its composition on a dry basis by volume is 78.08% N2, 20.95% O2, 0.934% Ar, and, presently, only 0.036% (360 parts per million, ppm) CO2, plus minor amounts of Ne, He, CH4, Kr, H2, N2O, and Xe. Nevertheless, carbon dioxide is believed to exert a major influence on climate through the greenhouse effect sunlight penetrates the atmosphere, is mostly absorbed by the Earth, and is reemitted as infrared radiation, but an important frac-... 

The first three processes reduce the contribution to the greenhouse effect in comparison to landfilling. All these processes reduce the eutrophication and acidification potential in comparison to landfill. The overall volume of waste produced was found least in the waste incineration. In summary, from an ecological point of view and on the basis of the comparative analysis of feedstock recycling and energy recovery, APME recommends the following recovery processes ... 

In fact, the conditions on Venus today are sometimes described as the result of a "runaway greenhouse effect. The planet s surface temperature of about 730 K (430°C) cannot be explained simply on the basis of the heat it receives from the Sun. Indeed, it is warmer... 

Besson, U. De Ambrosis, A. Mascheretti, P. 2010. Studying the physical basis of global warming Thermal effects of the interaction between radiation and matter and greenhouse effect European Journal of Physics, 31(2) 375-388. 

Besides NOx oxides, there is nitrous oxide (N2O), which is of special interest in isotope geochemistry. N2O is present in air at around 300 ppb and increases by about 0.2% per year. Nitrous oxide is an important greenhouse gas that is, on a molecular basis, a much more effective contributor to global warming than CO2 and that is also a major chemical control on stratospheric ozone budgets. 

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