The greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun's heat by gases in the air. The greenhouse effect explained.
Without it the earth would be about thirty degrees colder and uninhabitable. The problem is the strengthening of the greenhouse effect rather than the effect itself.
1noungreenhouse effectThe trapping of the sun's heat by gases in the air.
“The greenhouse effect was described in the nineteenth century.”
greenhouse effect is a process.
The term was used from 1901 by the Swedish meteorologist Nils Ekholm.
1901 by Swedish meteorologist Nils Gustaf Ekholm.
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