Water vapor (H2O) is the most abundant of all these gases, so it's
considered most important. The amount of water vapor in the air is limited by
the air temperature (for a particular air temperature, there is a maximum amount
of vapor that can be in the air; any in excess of that amount immediately condenses
back out as liquid water or ice). Carbon dioxide is the second most abundant
of these greenhouse gases, and has numerous, large anthropogenic
sources. The other greenhouse gases have smaller source rates and atmospheric
concentrations, but are still important because they can
potentially produce more greenhouse warming on a per-molecule basis.