Not exact matches
Earth's atmosphere is
mostly nitrogen and oxygen, but the exact concentration varies with altitude.
Oxygen mostly shines green;
nitrogen contributes blue
and red.
The answer is that before the sunlight reaches Earth, it first has to travel through our atmosphere, which is a layer of gas made up of tiny molecules of
mostly nitrogen and oxygen that surrounds our planet.
The gas is only found in trace amounts in Earth's atmosphere (which is
mostly made up of
nitrogen and oxygen), even though carbon is the primary basis for life on our planet.
The composition of human flatus has been studied (Suarez et al. 1997; Tomlin et al. 1991),
and comprises
mostly nitrogen and oxygen (derived from air that has been swallowed or diffusion from the blood),
and carbon dioxide, hydrogen,
and methane (arising intraluminally from chemical reactions
and bacterial fermentation).
Since life
mostly consist out of carbon, hydrogen,
oxygen and «reactive
nitrogen», ecosystems within the earth's biosphere were established based on what element was limiting.
Mars also has a
mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere, with traces of
nitrogen, argon,
oxygen, carbon monoxide
and some other gases.
There are no GHGes per say — we all know the earth has an ATMOSPHERE,
mostly consisting of lots of water in some form, lots of
nitrogen and oxygen and a teeny tiny amount of CO2 (oh
and dirt).
So for every million molecules of air measured (
mostly nitrogen and oxygen), 400 of those molecules are CO2.
But let's put these unconventional views aside for a moment,
and accept that certain atmospheric gases (e.g., CO2, for one) DO absorb more heat radiation than their more neutral cohorts (e.g.,
nitrogen and oxygen mostly).
These same absorbers of heat radiation (e.g., CO2) also EMIT the absorbed heat very fast to the surrounding air (
mostly nitrogen and oxygen again).
Because water vapor is lighter than dry air (
mostly nitrogen and oxygen), that layer of air can move upward in the attic.