If the oceans can no longer keep pace, then more CO2 will remain into the atmosphere. As water warms, its ability to absorb CO2 is reduced. CO2 is a good transmitter of sunlight, but partially restricts infrared radiation going back from the earth into space. This produces the so-called greenhouse effect that prevents a drastic cooling of the Earth during the night. Increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reinforces this effect and is expected to result in a warming of the Earth's surface.
Nitrogen oxides contribute most of the atmospheric contaminants.
Nitrogen Oxides There are six known nitrogen oxides, and there is evidence for a seventh. Only a highly mechanized and motorized community is likely to suffer serious pollution from them. Nitric oxide, the primary product, is produced during the high-temperature combustion of coal, oil, gas, or gasoline in power plants and internal combustion engines. Nitric oxide, plays a major part in photochemical smog. Nitrous oxide stays in the troposphere for about 150 years and every molecule of NO2 is 230 times more effective than a carbon dioxide molecule in greenhouse warming.