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Consumers around the world are becoming more concerned about the overall environment and what are things each homeowner might consider to be a part of leaving a greener world for our future inhabitants. The term 'greenhouse effect' is bantered about daily and often gets a bad rap because of its association with global warming. Truth is, we couldn't live without it and I suspect the average person doesn't know what the Greenhouse Effect is.
Life on earth depends on energy from the sun. About 30 percent of the sunlight that beams toward Earth is deflected by the outer atmosphere and scattered back into space. The rest reaches the planet's surface and is reflected upward again as a type of slow-moving energy called infrared radiation. The heat caused by infrared radiation is absorbed by "greenhouse gases" such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone and methane, which slows its escape from the atmosphere.
Although greenhouse gases make up only about 1 percent of the Earth's atmosphere, they regulate our climate by trapping heat and holding it in a kind of warm-air blanket that surrounds the planet. This phenomenon is what scientists call the "greenhouse effect." Without it, scientists estimate that the average temperature on Earth would be colder by approximately 30 degrees Celsius (54 degrees Fahrenheit), far too cold to sustain our current ecosystem. And that my friends would make a big impact to your monthly heating expenses!
Humans contribute to the Greenhouse Effect in a variety of ways, such that there can be too much of a good thing. The problems begin when human activities distort and accelerate the natural process by creating more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere than are necessary to warm the planet to an ideal temperature. The following are all major contributors of human activities which distort the natural process: