Greenhouse Gases are the cornerstones of life as we know it. No greenhouse gases, no life.
Let’s build a greenhouse. The first thing we need is dirt for the nitrogen compounds containing all the minerals and carbon elements required for growth. next we need two greenhouse gases, hydrogen and oxygen, to make water. Now we can plant a seed in the dirt, water it and watch it grow. But it won’t grow! We don’t have anything for a plant to breathe. We need another greenhouse gas, CO2 — carbon dioxide. So we add CO2 and it still will not grow. What is missing?? How about a giant ball of greenhouse gas burning very hot in the Big Sky, and that would be hydrogen atoms colliding causing light while transforming into helium, our star we call the sun.
The sun is a Greenhouse Gas. No hydrogen, no sun, no life on this planet. No water and no carbon dioxide, no plants would grow to be food and make oxygen, cows can not eat or drink or breathe, no T-bone steak. Greenhouse gases are the reason we have any life on this planet. Take away the greenhouse or any part of it and you will have a very dead planet, no life, zero. We breathe in 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and exhale 78% nitrogen and about 16% oxygen and 5% CO2. Greenhouse gases are not pollution, water is not pollution, carbon dioxide is not pollution, hydrogen and oxygen are not pollution. You can pollute water and carbon dioxide with a toxin or foreign substance, but greenhouse gases are not pollution, they are the cause of life as we know it.
Today the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon, the last 00.038% is radiation, electricity, water vapor, microorganisms, dirt, ash, pollen, sulfur, methane, nuclear waste, carbon monoxide, lead, carbon dioxide, nitric acid, ammonia, neon, krypton, helium, ozone, xenon, hydrogen, hydrocarbons, nitric oxide, radon, mercury, arsenic, iridium, neutrinos and anything else you can think of floating in the air. CO2 is one-one hundredth to four one hundredths of one percent of the Air. Plants have gone from having most of the Air to breathe over 500 million years ago, to as little as only one-one hundredth of one percent today. carbon dioxide (CO2) one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms together, in its purest form is Dry Ice.