While carbon dioxide, or CO 2, is the best known greenhouse gas, several others, including methane and nitrous oxide, are also driving global warming and altering the Earth's climate. Atmospheric ...
From 1990 to 2023, radiative forcing — the warming effect on our climate — by long-lived greenhouse gases increased by 51.5%, with CO2 accounting for about 81 per cent of this increase ...
CO2 is the single most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, accounting for approximately 64% of the warming effect on the climate. The long-term CO2 increase is mainly due to fossil fuel ...