
Is there a reason why the air is so thick?
- September 9, 2021
I am an air quality researcher and my research interests are in atmospheric aerosols, and the aerosol-cloud interface, which is the link between atmospheric pollutants and climate change.
A study published in Nature in April 2018, using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Atmospheric Chemistry and Photochemistry data set, shows that the average amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere today is more than 1,500 times higher than at the time of the industrial revolution.
But the real reason for the air thickness is that CO2 has been growing at a much higher rate than any other greenhouse gas.
When CO2 concentrations peaked in the late 19th century, atmospheric concentrations were about 1.2 parts per million (ppm), which is about 2% of the concentrations today.
By the time the industrial era ended, concentrations had risen to about 2 ppm.
In a paper recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, I use the data to calculate the size of the aerosols that could be causing this air thickening.
We can use this to calculate how much CO2 could have caused the air to become so thick.
The air around us contains a huge amount of water vapor.
Water vapour is a greenhouse gas because it traps heat.
So when it condenses, it also cools the atmosphere.
In the atmosphere, water vapour can form clouds that trap heat in the form of rain, snow and clouds of particles called droplets.
The amount of CO2 in the air means that there’s a lot of water vapours in the cloud, which means there’s more heat trapping than if there were no water vapors in the clouds.
So if you put CO2 into the air, you can create a very thick layer of CO 2 that traps more heat than if you just had water vapoured CO2.
And it can create very fine droplets in the droplets that can reflect sunlight.
So, if you want to know how much sunlight is reflected from the sky, the more water vapourires in the water, the better.
So you can see that, when you add more water, CO2 can cause this air thinning effect.
There’s also another greenhouse gas that’s increasing in concentration in the planet’s atmosphere.
That’s methane, which the amount of is about 300 times that of CO.
Methane has been increasing in the last couple of decades, but it’s not as much as CO.
The reason is that methane is very much like a gas that doesn’t get trapped in the ground by the Earth’s gravity, which makes it difficult to measure accurately.
So it’s a gas we can’t measure with the kind of instruments we use today.
What we can measure is the amount that methane accumulates in the ocean.
The atmosphere contains about 0.7% of total methane concentration, so that means that we’ve got about 0,7% methane in the oceans.
So the concentration of methane is increasing faster than the concentration in surface waters.
Methanogeny is a process that takes place in the upper layers of the ocean, where there are a lot more oxygen-rich waters and less carbon-rich ones.
So methane can be found in the deeper layers of ocean, as well as deeper, less oxygen-poor waters.
So there’s less methane in surface water than in the deep ocean, but in the lower levels of the oceans there’s even less methane than in surface ocean.
So even though we don’t have instruments that can measure the amount, it’s possible to get a rough idea of how much methane has been added to the atmosphere by adding CO2 to the air.
We know that, for example, there’s an increasing amount of methane in CO2, but we don.
So this air is thicker than it has been in the past, because of a lot less methane coming from the oceans and the atmosphere is thick.
But what about the climate implications?
The paper I’m writing on this topic uses a different approach to look at the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere.
Instead of looking at the concentration, we look at temperature.
In order to look for CO2 emissions, we need to know the temperature.
This is because the concentration varies with temperature.
The temperature has been changing a lot, but this is due to a lot different processes that affect the temperature of the atmosphere such as volcanoes, changes in the amount and timing of precipitation, and other factors.
So our climate model, for instance, uses the temperature to make the predictions about how much the air will change.
The model has an atmospheric temperature of 10.7 °C (26.5 °F) and it predicts that the air around the Earth will warm by about 0 degrees Celsius (2.4 °F).
This temperature is a little higher than the real world temperature, because it depends on the amount (or timing) of precipitation that falls in the area where CO2 is being emitted.
So by using this temperature