The future of greenhouse gases
The Future of Everything
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The Major Sources of Methane and Nitrogen Oxides
The principle by which these molecules act in increasing the temperature in the atmosphere is very similar. Methane lasts for less than CO2 because it gets converted into other molecules in the atmosphere. But for example, it has an immediate larger effect than CO2. That is equivalent to roughly 20 to 80 times dead of CO2. With nitrogen oxide, that's even higher. So this is the so-called greenhouse gas power of, or potential of these gases that is varied.
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