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Chapter 7.
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Section problem 2.
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Why are scientists concerned about increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels? and then what's the source of this increase? it almost seems like common sense for most people when it is, that carbon dioxide is an important issue as it relates to global climate change because carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas.
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And that term means something very specific.
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So we live on there.
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And, you know, the sun's not black, but somewhere out in space, we've got the sun.
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And the light reaches us through space, through the vacuum of space.
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And the green, the atmosphere that we have extends like a halo, a little bit into, a little bit into space.
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And what this does, atmosphere, is traps.
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Some of that heat within that atmosphere so that we can live and so that our water is liquid and all that kind of stuff...