{"id":10323,"date":"2017-03-09T22:26:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10323"},"modified":"2017-03-09T22:26:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:26:32","slug":"carbon-dioxide-is-the-primary-driver-of-greenhouse-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/carbon-dioxide-is-the-primary-driver-of-greenhouse-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon dioxide is the primary driver of greenhouse warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For at least the last 150 years, scientists have known that carbon dioxide gas is the primary source of warming in the earth&#8217;s atmosphere. \u00a0Having some carbon dioxide in the atmosphere allows the temperature range on the surface of the earth to be suitable for life. \u00a0But having higher amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere enhances the warming, so that as we add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, the temperature is going to go up, particularly when you factor in other effects like the melting of highly reflective ice at high latitudes. \u00a0So if you hear someone say that carbon dioxide is not a primary cause of global warming, then you have to ask yourself, why are they denying well-established scientific fact? \u00a0It&#8217;s simple physics, folks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/radiative-forcing-bar-graph-from-ipcc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10324\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/radiative-forcing-bar-graph-from-ipcc-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/radiative-forcing-bar-graph-from-ipcc-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/radiative-forcing-bar-graph-from-ipcc-768x654.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/radiative-forcing-bar-graph-from-ipcc-162x138.jpg 162w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/radiative-forcing-bar-graph-from-ipcc.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For at least the last 150 years, scientists have known that carbon dioxide gas is the primary source of warming in the earth&#8217;s atmosphere. \u00a0Having some carbon dioxide in the atmosphere allows the temperature range on the surface of the earth to be suitable for life. \u00a0But having higher amounts of carbon dioxide in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}