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Water Vapor Carbon Dioxide Methane Nitrous Oxide Ozone

Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere absorb and emit heat from the sun, causing the atmosphere to get hotter and more turbulent over time. As levels of these gases increase further through human activity, the global climate becomes increasingly agitated, heated, and unpredictable, raising the average global temperature and severity of weather events like storms and droughts.

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Water Vapor Carbon Dioxide Methane Nitrous Oxide Ozone

Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere absorb and emit heat from the sun, causing the atmosphere to get hotter and more turbulent over time. As levels of these gases increase further through human activity, the global climate becomes increasingly agitated, heated, and unpredictable, raising the average global temperature and severity of weather events like storms and droughts.

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Within the earth's atmosphere, accumulating greenhouse gases like water

vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone are the gases within the


atmosphere that absorb and emit heat radiation. Increasing or decreasing amounts of
greenhouse gases within the atmosphere act to either hold in or release more of the
heat from the sun.

Our atmosphere is getting hotter, more turbulent, and more unpredictable because of
the “boiling and churning” effect caused by the heat-trapping greenhouse gases within
the upper layers of our atmosphere. With each increase of carbon, methane, or other
greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, our local weather and global climate is further
agitated, heated, and “boiled.”

Global warming is gauged by the increase in the average global temperature of the
Earth. Along with our currently increasing average global temperature, some parts of
the Earth may actually get colder while other parts get warmer—hence the idea of
average global temperature. Greenhouse gas-caused atmospheric heating and
agitation also increase the unpredictability of the weather and climate and dramatically
increase the severity, scale, and frequency of storms, droughts, wildfires, and extreme
temperatures.

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