CO2 will remain in the atmosphere. CO2 is a good transmitter of sunlight, but it partially restricts infrared radiation from returning from the earth back into space. This results in the so called greenhouse effect that prevents the necessary cooling of the earth during the night. This means that increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reinforces this effect and could result in a warming of the Earth's surface. At the present time, carbon dioxide is responsible for 57 percent of the global warming trend, while nitrogen oxides contribute most of the atmospheric contaminants (Socha).
There are six known nitrogen oxides, with some evidence for a seventh. Only two of these are normally considered to be pollutants: nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, both produced in high quantities only in a highly mechanized and motorized society. Nitric oxide results during the high temperature combustion of coal, oil, gas, or gasoline in power plants or internal combustion engines. Nitric oxide (NO) plays a major p
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