The fact that water vapor is the dominant absorber in the Earth's greenhouse effect can lead to a flawed narrative that anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) is not important nor a significant driver ...

And that water vapor, in turn, causes further warming—it amplifies the effects of carbon dioxide. So anthropogenic CO 2 serves as the chief engine of global warming, with water vapor playing a ...

What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic?

Caltech scientists convert CO2 into tough industrial plastics using a dual-loop system powered by renewable electricity.

“Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas and natural levels of [carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide] are also crucial to creating a habitable planet,” writes John Reilly ...

During that process they release water vapor. As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, the pores don't open as wide, resulting in lower levels of transpiration by plants and thus increased water ...

Water vapor and ozone, as well as carbon dioxide, have this effect because they too absorb energy in the infrared region. But the climatic effects due to carbon dioxide are almost entirely ...

The next most abundant gases--water vapor and carbon dioxide--do absorb a portion of the infrared heat radiated by the earth's surface, thereby preventing it from reaching space.

As carbon dioxide levels have risen during the last 150 years, the density of pores that allow plants to breathe has dwindled by 34 percent, restricting the amount of water vapor the plants ...

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat. ... but some of it is trapped by different chemicals in the atmosphere, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane.

Previous studies in carbon sequestration have provided unexpected insights into this theory, too. These are insights that could line up with the theory that liquid carbon dioxide rivers once ...