{"id":88973,"date":"2025-07-26T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=88973"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:04:33","slug":"how-does-carbon-dioxide-cause-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/how-does-carbon-dioxide-cause-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"How does carbon dioxide cause global warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k6xKKj6PEiiYmiDuCOU\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nCarbon dioxide (CO2) contributes to global warming by acting as a greenhouse gas, trapping heat in the atmosphere. This occurs because CO2 absorbs infrared radiation (heat) emitted from the Earth&#8217;s surface and then re-emits it in all directions, including back towards the Earth, warming the planet. <\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon dioxide (CO2) contributes to global warming by acting as a greenhouse gas, trapping heat in the atmosphere. This occurs because CO2 absorbs infrared radiation (heat) emitted from the Earth&#8217;s surface and then re-emits it in all directions, including back towards the Earth, warming the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88975,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88973\/revisions\/88975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}