Greenhouse effect factors
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List several factors contributing to the greenhouse effect. What can we, as citizens, do to reverse the trend? What are some of the dangers of not doing anything?
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The expert lists several factors contributing to the greenhouse effects.
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Major cause of the increased greenhouse gas is anthropogenic activities. Some of the main sources of greenhouse gases due to human activity include:
a. Burning of fossil fuels and deforestation leading to higher carbon dioxide concentrations
b. Paddy rice farming, land use and wetland changes, pipeline losses, and covered vented landfill emissions contributes methane to atmospheric concentrations
c. Use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigeration systems, and use of CFCs and ...
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