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- warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth
How To Use greenhouse effect In A Sentence
- Yep, the greenhouse effect works because light in the visible spectrum passes through “greenhouse” gases, while reradiated infrared is absorbed. Matthew Yglesias » Green Roofs
- This might have generated enough debris to block out sunlight and trigger an ice age, enough sulfuric acid to acidify the oceans, and/or enough carbon dioxide to cause global warming by a greenhouse effect.
- They contribute 14 percent of the greenhouse effect and are increasing at the rate of 6 percent a year.
- As levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane increase, the greenhouse effect will trap increasing amounts of heat.
- ‘Global warming’ is the term applied to increasing average global temperature, popularly associated with the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- We are all beginning to experience global warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- Solar changes were the main cause from 1750 to 1850, but the greenhouse effect has been dominant in recent decades.
- The specific impact of the greenhouse effect is unknowable.
- The specific impact of the greenhouse effect is unknowable.
- Carbon dioxide is the largest contributor to the greenhouse effect.
