The greenhouse effect

To reduce the impact of the greenhouse effect and its impact on human life, it is necessary to abandon the use of hydrocarbon fuel and switch to renewable energy sources.

Currently, thermal power plants and other industries, as a result of smoke emissions from cars, annually emit about 5 billion tons of CO₂ emissions. At the same time, forest fires and volcanic eruptions add more than 1-2 billion cubic meters of atmospheric emissions. All this leads to a greenhouse effect.

According to scientists, changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere are in an emergency situation. If the average air temperature rises above 2°C, snow peaks in mountainous areas can be accompanied by the melting of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica and possibly an increase in the sea level by 25 m. Consequently, islands and populated areas will be flooded, and about 19% of the world's population 1.3 billion) will suffer. In the future, half of the approximately 25 major megacities will be forced to leave their habitat.

The greenhouse effect is an increase in the temperature of the lower layers of the planet's atmosphere compared to the effective temperature, that is, the temperature of the thermal radiation of the planet observed from space.

Greenhouse gases are gases with high transparency in the visible range and with high absorption in the far infrared range. The presence of such gases in the atmospheres of planets leads to the appearance of a greenhouse effect.