Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: For decades, efforts have been made to limit global warming. A unique action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is therefore insufficient. Indeed, the other direct but invisible cause, which combines with GHGs, was not taken into consideration during the various previous COPs. These are infrared emissions from the earth and particularly from artificial soils. The analogy is made between the greenhouse effect present in an agricultural greenhouse, a solar thermal collector and the Earth’s atmosphere. Significative Statement: The global warming due to the terrestrial green House Effect is effectively due to the Infrared Radiation emissions of soils of earth. The COP 28 do not indicate this important parameter. Thus, the exit from fossil fuels, carbon neutrality in 2050, and the use of nuclear power will not avoid the growth of global warming if we do not, at the same time, reduce the emissions of infrared radiation emissions from artificialized soils of the earth.
Author: Romdhane Ben Slama
Institution: University of Gabès
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4404728585