Diagram Of The Greenhouse Gases. Total emissions in 2019 6558 million metric tons of co2 equivalentpercentages may not add up to 100 due to independent rounding. That sunlight creates warmth.
A greenhouse gas ghg or ghg is a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range causing the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide nitrous oxide methane share of global ghg emissions. When fossil fuels burn they produce greenhouse gases that are having a global impact on temperature and weather systems.
Land use land use change and forestry in the united states is a net sink and removes approximately 12 percent of these greenhouse gas emissions this net sink is not shown in the above diagram.
Gases in the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide trap heat similar to the glass roof of a greenhouse. The greenhouse effect works much the same way on earth. When fossil fuels burn they produce greenhouse gases that are having a global impact on temperature and weather systems. However the actual existence of a greenhouse effect was already known.