Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is part of many natural cycles. However, it’s increasing in concentration in the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

Why Carbon Dioxide Is a Greenhouse Gas. In making a case against CO 2 as a greenhouse gas, the Galileo Movement relies on irrelevant facts while omitting pertinent ones.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, one of the four main ones. In terms of US greenhouse gas emissions, here's a list by amounts from the Environmental Protection Agency: Carbon dioxide, 79%.

Greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, “correspond to sort of holes” in the light spectrum that would otherwise allow heat to escape, but they block the exits, Mann said.

Power plants and industrial facilities that emit planet-warming carbon dioxide are hopeful that Congress will keep tax ...

Carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas that drives global climate change, continues to rise every month. Find out the dangerous role it and other gases play. By Christina Nunez. May 13, 2019 ...

Levels of the three most significant human-caused greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – continued their steady climb in 2023.

Carbon dioxide was once again of particular concern. The gas, which is primarily emitted in excess from the burning of fossil fuels in transportation, electricity and industry, rose by 2.13 parts ...

They use Venus as a model, which does have carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere that remains in place and is largely responsible for the greenhouse effect on a planet with a surface temperature ...

A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the ...

That carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat is something scientists have known about for more than a 150 years. The underlying concept behind climate change is simple enough that ...