• Question: why do we have green house gasses

    Asked by anon-200943 to Rosemary, Oliver, Leigh, Jordan, Hannah, David on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Oliver Gordon

      Oliver Gordon answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      They aren’t all bad – they give us an atmosphere. Without an atmosphere, not only can we not breath but the Earth will be super hot (like mars!) and nothing could live.

      Some greenhouse gases are pretty much required for an atmosphere. It’s just that we as humanity keep putting too many out

    • Photo: Jordan Kirby

      Jordan Kirby answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      All the gases themselves are important in one way or another to alot of processes (Like CO2 is required for the process of photosynthesis) and each have a cycle where they are taken in and out of the air (some are pretty complicated!!!) But yeah its just as Oliver said, we put out wayyyyyyyy to much of them!

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