ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the fundamentals of Green House Gas Emissions Management. Despite statements by many unqualified and biased political officials, 97% of climate scientists agree that the climate is changing primarily due to man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gases are those gases in the atmosphere that allow heat in the form of direct solar radiation to pass through them as the solar radiation comes to the earth’s surface and is absorbed and then some is re-radiated at a lower frequency. The major man-made greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides, and small amounts of chlorinated or fluorinated elements. Greenhouse gases absorb this infrared radiation and trap the heat in the atmosphere. Over time, the amount of energy sent from the sun to the Earth’s surface should be about the same as the amount of energy radiated back into space, leaving the temperature of the Earth’s surface roughly constant.
