The Green House Effect is a natural occuring phenomenon that keeps the earth warm enough to support life. The Green House Effect works like a green house which is used to grow plants. In this room heat comes in but doesn't go out. In Earth's case Green House gases keep the Earth warm .

Carbon di oxide is the most plentiful Green House gas in the atmosphere. It is also least powerful. Even though none of the gases are in as great amounts as CO₂ , they are much worse. Methane is thirty times worse. Nitrous oxide is even worse at 150 times stronger than Carbon di oxide. Surface Ozone is stuning 2000 times more effective. The strongest of all are Chloro Fluoro Carbon's. They are 10-23000 times stronger than CO₂. Chloro Fluoro Carbons are man-made materials & usually have very long lives.

What Is Global Warming, Anyway?

Like the glass in a greenhouse, certain gases that occur naturally in the atmosphere tend to trap the sun's heat. This natural "greenhouse effect" helps keep the Earth's average temperature at a comfortable 59° Fahrenheit. Without these greenhouse gases, the Earth would be about 0° F, like a deep- frozen snowball.

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Since the industrial revolution, Green house gases emitted into the atmosphere have increased by 27%. Another greenhouse gas, methane, has more than doubled.

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But human activities are causing some greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, to

build up in the atmosphere. Whenever we burn fossil fuels (gasoline, oil, coal or

natural gas), more carbon dioxide is emitted to the atmosphere. Forest destruction and

agriculture also release greenhouse gases.

If we do not act to reduce our emissions of these heat-trapping gases, it is predicted

that global temperature could rise 2° to 6° F in the next 100 years. Just a few degrees'

difference in the global average temperature can mean a major climate change.