Increased concentration of which of the following may cause maximum global warming?

The correct answer is Carbon dioxide.Key Points

• The production and combustion of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), wildfires, and natural processes like volcanic eruptions all produce carbon dioxide.
• CO₂ is a significant heat-trapping gas or greenhouse gas.
• Climate change is brought on by the planet's atmosphere becoming too heated from carbon dioxide.
• In fewer than 200 years, human activity has increased the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content by 50%.
• The atmosphere's increased concentration of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, is what leads to global warming.

Additional Information

• ​When carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants build up in the atmosphere, they absorb sunlight and solar rays that have already reflected off the surface of the earth.
• Ordinarily, this radiation would escape into space, but because these pollutants may linger in the atmosphere for many years or even decades, they trap the heat and make the planet hotter.
• The greenhouse effect is the result of these heat-trapping pollutants, notably carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapour, and synthetic fluorinated gases, which are referred to as greenhouse gases.