Greenhouse Gases in the Yahoo! Directory

Bad Greenhouse
Discusses the greenhouse effect and why the concept of global warming is not actually the same thing.
www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadGreenhouse.html
NOVA: Greenhouse - Green Planet
Overview of the greenhouse effect.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/greenhouse.html
The Greenhouse Effect in a Jar
Experiment for students to see the effects of a greenhouse, and relate this understanding to what occurs in our atmosphere.
sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/earth/earth-5.html
The Greenhouse Effect - PhysicalGeography.net
Describes the greenhouse effect, the naturally occurring process that aids in heating the Earth's surface and atmosphere.
www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7h.html
Greenhouse Effect - Wikipedia
Article about the greenhouse effect, discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1829 and first investigated quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, the process in which the emission of infrared radiation by the atmosphere warms a planet's surface.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect
Greenhouse Gas - Wikipedia
Article about greenhouse gases (GHG), the components of the atmosphere that contribute to the greenhouse effect.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas
Greenhouse Effect - Cycles of the Earth and Atmosphere
Provides an overview of the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect by exploring the atmospheres of nearby planets and discussing our atmosphere's greenhouse gases.
www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm
Sources of Greenhouse Gases
Looks at the natural and hamn sources of greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, fluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide.
globalwarming.enviroweb.org/ishappening/sources/index.html
Atmospheric Chemistry and Greenhouse Gases
Chapter four of the UNEP's Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis report investigates greenhouse gases whose atmospheric burdens and climate impacts generally depend on atmospheric chemistry.
www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/127.htm
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
Looks back in time to the 19th century, when scientists fist realized that gases in the atmosphere cause a greenhouse effect which affects the planet's temperature.
www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm
The Greenhouse Effect - NASA Facts On Line
Learn about the greenhouse effect, the warming of climate that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/earthsci/green.htm
Greenhouse Effect - Windows to the Universe
Introduces kids to the greenhouse gases: water vapor, methane, ozone, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide.
www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/interior/greenhouse_effect.html
Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, and Energy
National Energy Information Center brochure briefly addressing what are greenhouse gases, why are atmospheric levels increasing, and what effect do greenhouse gases have on climate change.
www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggccebro/chapter1.html
Greenhouse Gases - The Environmental Literacy Council
Introduction to the naturally-occurring trace gases in the atmosphere -- water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone -- along with the human activities that impact their concentrations.
www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/428.php
Greenhouse Gases - CRC for Greenhouse Accounting
Article about the greenhouse gases that are a natural part of the Earth's atmosphere and those gases that are introduced solely by human activity.
www.greenhouse.crc.org.au/about%5Fgreenhouse/greenhouse_gases.cfm
Greenhouse Gases - LIME
Introduction to the greenhouse gases, the gases that trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere by absorbing and re-emitting solar radiation.
www.lime.com/glossary/greenhouse_gases
The Greenhouse Effect - EPA Climate Change Kids Site
Animation and short article for kids explaining the greenhouse effect, the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere trap energy from the sun.
epa.gov/climatechange/kids/greenhouse.html
Greenhouse Gases FAQ - NOAA
What are greenhouse gases? Learn how water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, tropospheric ozone, nitrous oxide, and synthetic greenhouse gases warm the Earth.
lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/gases.html
Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases
Students are introduced to the greenhouse effect, sources and losses of greenhouse gases, measurements of greenhouse gases, and measurements of air temperature.
vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/global/greenhou.html
Greenhouse Gases - Mark Bishop's Chemistry Site
Looks at the role that greenhouse gases normally play in regulating the flow of energy into and out of the Earth's atmosphere as well as how human activity is influencing this process and what some possible solutions might be.
www.mpcfaculty.net/mark_bishop/greenhouse.htm