Of all the different greenhouse gases, which do you believe is the most harmful?
Question by Cooper: Of all the different greenhouse gases, which do you believe is the most harmful?
There are greenhouse gases that occur naturally, such as water vapor, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and ozone. There are also greenhouse gases that come only from human activities, such as hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride.
From this list, which one do you believe is the greatest threat? Briefly explain your answer.
Best answer:
Answer by Ram
I think the most harmful is CO (carbon monoxide).
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It’s the hot air streaming out of the Global Warm-Mongers like David Suzuki and Al Gore that is most harmful.
CO2 (?)
The data says it’s man made CO2.
http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/mauna_loa_record/mlo_record.html
The little squiggles are nature doing its’ thing. CO2 falls a bit during summer when plants are active, and rises during the winter. The huge increase is us, burning fossil fuels (in addition to the shape of the graph, the increase numerically matches the increase in fossil fuel use; an unlikely coincidence). The natural carbon cycle buried carbon in fossil fuels over a very long time, little bit by little bit. We dig them up and burn them, real fast. That’s a problem.
Man is upsetting the balance of nature. We need to fix that.
The natural greenhouse gases are balanced by nature. The other man made greenhouse gases are more harmful per kilogram, but we make so much more CO2 than anything else it’s the most harmful overall,
it is not of thinking the major constituent is CO2, rather than harmful greenhouse gases the most important gases are CFCs as the destroy the ozone layer making the green gases more harmful
It is hard to pinpoint just one gas. CO2 is bad but one ounce of methane is ten times worse than one ounce of CO2. Methane has many sources. Cattle, gasses escaping from underwater, and, most recently they have discovered that plants give off methane as well. Hydrocarbons eliminate ozone which is a protective barrier to harmful solar radiation. It is not so much a global warming problem but excess solar radiation causes cancer. The question is not which gas does the most damage, it is that we need to restore some balance back into the atmosphere.