{"id":28053,"date":"2024-11-17T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28053"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:52:46","slug":"carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/carbon-dioxide\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Carbon Dioxide:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>colourless gas<\/strong> having a faint sharp odour and a sour taste.<\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>important heat-trapping gas<\/strong>, also known as a greenhouse gas.<\/li>\n<li>It comes from the extraction and <strong>burning of fossil fuels<\/strong> (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), from wildfires, and natural processes like <strong>volcanic eruptions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the most <strong>important greenhouse gas<\/strong> (GHG) in the atmosphere and is the primary driver of anthropogenic climate change.<\/li>\n<li>The presence of the gas in the atmosphere keeps some <strong>of the radiant energy<\/strong> received by Earth from being returned to space, thus producing the so-called greenhouse effect.<\/li>\n<li>Carbon dioxide is used as a <strong>refrigerant, in fire extinguishers, for inflating life rafts<\/strong> and life jackets, blasting coal, foaming rubber and plastics, promoting the growth of plants in greenhouses, immobilizing animals before slaughter, and in carbonated beverages.<\/li>\n<li>Studies have shown that CO2 has contributed more than any driver to climate change.\n<ul>\n<li>It is much more <strong>abundant in the atmosphere<\/strong> compared to CH4 and HFCs.<\/li>\n<li>CO2 remains in the atmosphere longer than the other major GHGs emitted due to human activities.<\/li>\n<li>After a pulse of CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere, 40% will remain in the atmosphere for 100 years and 20% will reside for 1000 years, while the final 10% will take 10,000 years to turn over,\u201d a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a US-based non-profit organisation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the greenhouse effect?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the process through which heat is trapped near Earth&#8217;s surface by substances known as &#8216;greenhouse gases.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/co2-climate-change-9673231\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why CO2 is the primary driver of climate change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon Dioxide is a colourless gas having a faint sharp odour and a sour taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}