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Questions tagged [greenhouse-gases]

Greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat into the Earth's atmosphere these gases are Carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous oxide (N2O), Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and et cetera.

Greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat into the Earth's atmosphere. These gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) perfluorocarbons (PFCs) sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and et cetera.

Any questions related to these gases in the atmosphere or the subject of greenhouse gases qualify.

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Why is Carbon Dioxide a Greenhouse Gas whereas Ammonia is not?

Why are some gases Greenhouse gases while some are not? I did search this on the net but didn't get any clearcut/credible answers. What exactly is the property that is common among Ozone, Water Vapour, CFCs, and Methane that makes them all…
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sulfur hexafluroide as a greenhouse gas and its atmospheric journey

Maybe a simple question, but if sulfur hexafluoride is 6 times heavier than air then how does it get into the high atmosphere. All be it in low quantities now, but there is a large stock of the stuff in potentially vulnerable and prevalent…
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Can runaway methane gas emissions be an extinction level event?

Much ado has been made by a few petroleum engineers and global-warming alarmist about all of the methane gas trapped in frozen form, mostly on the ocean floors. The "What-if" scenario begins to play out in 2080 or so, when a few petroleum engineers…
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Would a water rocket be better/worse for greenhouse effect compared to more standard methalox/kerolox cycles?

So there is a company called Arcaspace whose launch vehicle gimmick is that by replacing the first stage boosters, which are generally either solid/cryogenic propellants with water/steam propulsion. They do this based on the idea that it's less…
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Testing the statistical significance of the difference between cumulative/integrated emission quantities calculated from time series?

I am new to time series data analysis. I wonder how would one test the difference between integrated quantities (area under curve) from different time-series curves? (the time series are plotted with biweekly GHG flux data, the flux data has…
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