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Aside from water vapour, the four principal greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and th
Aside from water vapour, the four principal greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and th
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问题
Aside from water vapour, the four principal greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO
2
), methane (CH
4
), nitrous oxide (N
2
O) and the halocarbons or CFCs (gases containing fluorine, chlorine and bromine). These gases—described in more detail here—can remain in the atmosphere for different amounts of time, from months to millennia, and affect the climate on very different timescales.
The lifetime in the air of CO
2
, the most significant man-made greenhouse gas, is probably the most difficult to determine, because there are several processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Between 65% and 80% of CO
2
released into the air dissolves into the ocean over a period of 20-200 years. The rest is removed by slower processes that take up to several hundreds of thousands of years, including chemical weathering and rock formation. This means that once in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide can continue to affect climate for thousands of years.
Methane, by contrast, is mostly removed from the atmosphere by chemical reaction, persisting for about 12 years. Thus although methane is a
potent
greenhouse gas, its effect is relatively short-lived.
Nitrous oxide is destroyed in the stratosphere and removed from the atmosphere more slowly than methane, persisting for around 114 years.
Compounds containing chlorine and/or fluorine (CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs, PFCs) include a huge number of different chemical species, each of which can last in the atmosphere for a specific length of time—from less than a year to many thousands of years. The IPCC has published a comprehensive list of the atmospheric lifetime of the various CFCs and other greenhouse gases.
Water vapour is a very effective absorber of heat energy in the air, but it does not accumulate in the atmosphere in the same way as the other greenhouse gases. This is down to it having a very short atmospheric lifetime, of the order of hours to days, because it is rapidly removed as rain and snow. The amount of water vapour that the atmosphere can hold increases as the atmosphere gets warmer, so the greenhouse properties of water vapour are usually considered to act as part of a feedback loop, rather than a direct cause of climate change.
From The Guardian, January 16, 2012
Why is water vapour NOT considered as a direct cause of the climate change?
选项
A、Because it doesn’t influence on climate.
B、Because it is not a greenhouse gas.
C、Because it can be removed by the chemical reactions.
D、Because it increases when atmosphere goes up.
答案
D
解析
本题为理解题。文章最后部分提到“The amount of water vapour that the atmosphere can hold increases as the atmosphere gets warmer,so the greenhouse properties of water vapour are usually considered to act as part of a feedback loop,rather than a direct cause of climate change.”水蒸气在空气中的含量随着气温变暖而增加,所以水蒸气通常被认为是大气循环的一部分,而不被看做影响气候变化的一个直接原因。所以应当选D。
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