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Greenhouse effect
The effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but prevent part of the outgoing infrared radiation from the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. This process occurs naturally and has kept the Earth's temperature about 59 degrees F warmer than it would otherwise be. Current life on Earth could not be sustained without the natural greenhouse effect. (source: EPA) Background from Wikipedia A schematic representation of the exchanges of energy between outer space, the Earth's atmosphere, and the Earth surface. The ability of the atmosphere to capture and recycle energy emitted by the Earth surface is the defining characteristic of the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect, first discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1824, and first investigated quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, is the process in which the absorption of infrared radiation by an atmosphere warms a planet. Without these greenhouse gases, the Earth's surface would be up to 30 °C cooler. The name comes from an incorrect analogy with the way in which greenhouses are heated by the sun in order to facilitate plant growth. In addition to the Earth, Mars, Venus and other celestial bodies with atmospheres (such as Titan) have greenhouse effects. In common parlance, the term "greenhouse effect" may be used to refer either to the natural greenhouse effect, due to naturally occuring greenhouse gases, or to the enhanced (anthropogenic) greenhouse effect, which results from gases emitted as a result of human activities (see also global warming, scientific opinion on climate change and attribution of recent climate change). Blogcritics.org,..."The earth has a natural greenhouse effect," explained Stephen H. Schneider, Professor and Senior Fellow at Environmental Science and Policy of the Making Malta greener - 18 Aug 2007 Malta Independent Online,CHI will be encouraging conference groups visiting Malta to cut carbon dioxide emissions, which help produce the greenhouse effect. Trees can't offset greenhouse effect - Aug 8, 2007 Winston-Salem Journal,AP A 10-year experiment led by Duke University scientists indicates that trees provide little help in offsetting increased levels of the greenhouse-gas Bangkok governor dispenses trees to ease greenhouse effect - Aug 9, 2007 Thai News Agency MCOT,BANGKOK, Aug 9 (TNA) - Bangkok governor Apirak Kosayodhin joined Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) senior staff members in a campaign to encourage Greenhouse Gases to Impede Economic Growth - Aug 15, 2007 Korea Times,Greenhouse gases are components of the atmosphere that contribute to the so-called greenhouse effect on the globe. While some of the gases are created A Convenient Truth - Al Gore admits he was wrong - Aug 17, 2007 The Spoof (satire),The Greenhouse Effect - It's like a load of plastic people stuck in an upturned bowl. Apparently. In what is being described as the twist of the century Israeli Manure Power Plant Combats Greenhouse Effect - Aug 8, 2007 Arutz Sheva,...by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) A new power plant in the Hefer Valley has begun to produce electricity from manure and other organic waste. Journalists should not portray global warming as a morality tale - Aug 16, 2007 Economic Times,The first Newsweek cover story in 1988 warned “The Greenhouse Effect. Danger: More Hot Summers Ahead.â€? A Time cover in 2006 was more alarmist: “BE WORRIED, Gore's 'truth' not only one: objector - Aug 14, 2007 National Post,A retired Calgary teacher is sponsoring a downtown billboard that decries the greenhouse effect as a "huge hoax" after he was criticized for denying that Could solar reflection save the planet - Aug 2, 2007 CNN InternationalAs early as 1989, for instance, in an article entitled "Space-based Solar Shield to Offset Greenhouse Effect," James T. Early of the Lawrence Livermore Does a reporter have a duty to appear on C-SPAN? - Aug 10, 2007 SlateWhen asked about the "Greenhouse Effect" ($) that purportedly causes freshman Supreme Court justices to vote in such manner as to earn admiring copy from Global Warming at Odds With Science - Aug 6, 2007 NewsMax.com,The greenhouse effect refers to what happens when sunlight penetrates the glass in a greenhouse and then traps the heat inside. The proponents of the global Major increase in long-term tree planting in Ontario now possible ... - Aug 14, 2007 ECO/Huff Strategy (press release),About half of the greenhouse effect is caused by CO2. Trees act as a 'carbon sink' by removing the carbon and storing it as cellulose in their trunks, 'Cool farms' mask the extent of global warming - Aug 14, 2007 New Scientist (subscription),The warmer winter temperatures can only be explained by the greenhouse effect, and the authors speculate that the cool farms effect may have masked the Low-carbon diet attracts greenhouse opponents - Aug 11, 2007 Pittsburgh Post Gazette,Most of the carbon our bodies generates ends up in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, where scientists say it helps to create a greenhouse effect by trapping Big brown Asian cloud blamed for glacial melting - Aug 1, 2007 ABC Online,..."We found that the combined heating effect of the brown cloud and the greenhouse effect was sufficient to explain the large warming trend the region has Environmental Stewardship News Round-Up - Aug 15, 2007 Acton Institute,...that Earth’s climate is self-regulating and therefore not prone to a “tipping pointâ€? or a “runaway greenhouse effectâ€? or “catastrophic warming. Global Warming Simplicities - Aug 14, 2007 Washington Post,The first Newsweek cover story in 1988 warned: "The Greenhouse Effect. Danger: More Hot Summers Ahead." A Time cover in 2006 was more alarmist: "BE WORRIED, Johns Hopkins adopts climate change policy - Jul 25, 2007 Science Daily (press release)...full article Greenhouse gas -- Greenhouse gases (GHG) are gaseous components of the atmosphere that contribute to the greenhouse effect. The Truth About Denial - Aug 4, 2007 NewsweekOnly 46 percent say the greenhouse effect is being felt today. As a result of the undermining of the science, all the recent talk about addressing climate Call for NZ to go nuclear - Aug 14, 2007 Stuff.co.nz,Global warming models, based on those extra gases creating a greenhouse effect, were predicting world temperatures to rise between one and five degrees The CO 2 problem in 6 easy steps - Aug 6, 2007 RealClimateThe fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of long wave (LW) radiation from the Earth's surface to space) Ozone impacts on climate change - Jul 27, 2007 RealClimateMethane emissions are one of the principal causes of the rise of ozone, and the greenhouse effect of ozone can be thought of as an indirect effect of CH 4 Bangladesh: Carbon Currency – Emission Trading - Aug 8, 2007 Energy Bangla,But what is carbon trading and will it limit enhanced greenhouse effect? Let us try to explain it with an example. Imagine you are a farmer in the Does heavier rain mean a bigger sink? - Aug 9, 2007 Nature.com (subscription),At the mention of human-induced global change one's thoughts naturally turn to the enhanced greenhouse effect, in particular, the climate forcing resulting Newly identified side to global warming - Jul 26, 2007 Chemistry World,This will suppress the land carbon sink, push up the equilibrium level of atmospheric CO 2 , and boost the greenhouse effect, say UK researchers. Debunking Naysayers to Climate Change - Aug 16, 2007 Hyphen Magazine,This winter ice provides the kind of evidence that it is indeed associated with the greenhouse effect. I hate to say we told you so, but we told you so,â€? he Biodiversity: Climate change and the ecologist - Aug 3, 2007 Nature.com (subscription),Carbon dioxide is, of course, known as one of the main drivers of the greenhouse effect, and so of increasing temperatures. But it is also essential for Oil and Pollution at a Critical Stage - Aug 12, 2007 Prensa Latina,The first alarm sounded in the European Union last June, when it admitted that between 1990 and 2003, the community had reduced the greenhouse effect gas Brief respite, with more heat to come - Aug 9, 2007 The Age,My children and their children are going to face an enormously different world unless we do something about the greenhouse effect. Consumer Concerns - Aug 9, 2007 Stabroek News,This is known as the greenhouse effect, without which the temperature on Earth would be too cold for life. The main naturally occurring greenhouse gases are Andean nations agree on measures to halt glacier thaw - Aug 9, 2007 Xinhua,...and Bolivia on Thursday endorsed a plan that aims to halt glacier erosion caused by greenhouse effect in the Andes, said a World Bank (WB) official. Siberian forest plays its part in tracking climate change - Aug 14, 2007 RussiaToday,...way up here that scientists can conduct the research they hope will let them understand the influence that humans are having on the greenhouse effect. Stunting Growth: Ozone will trim plants' carbon-storing power - Jul 27, 2007 Science NewsThe warming due to ozone-reduced plant growth would thus rival the warming from ozone's greenhouse effect, says Sitch. The team's new simulations are "a Showering solar energy with accolades - Aug 16, 2007 Franklin County Courier,The sun heats the water through the clear Methacrylate outer tube – the same durable material used for aircraft windows – utilizing the greenhouse effect. The Next Climate Change Battleground - Aug 7, 2007 Wired NewsA recent Newsweek poll found that more than half of Americans don't think the greenhouse effect is felt today. Some two-fifths still believe there is "'a Ocean Currents And Climate Change - Aug 15, 2007 CBS News,The greenhouse effect, a look at the Kyoto Protocol and a history of the Earth's climate. To date, about 4000 of the bottles have been tossed into the water Action against global warming needed - Aug 16, 2007 Annapolis Capital,Those gases trap heat, instead of allowing it to dissipate into space - thus the nickname, "greenhouse effect." The result is increased air temperatures The crisis under the ice - Aug 9, 2007 Los Angeles Times,Methane is the most potent of the greenhouse gases, with a greenhouse effect 23 times that of CO2. Katey Walter of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the Night life - Aug 17, 2007 Modesto Bee,23, Greenhouse Effect, Rose Avenue Sinners, Dry Creek, Soup; Aug. 24, James Bent; Aug. 25, Moonshine Bandits. 930 11th St., Modesto. www.tickets.com. Outside View: Climate Change Strategies - Jul 23, 2007 Post ChronicleThis effect has come to be called the greenhouse effect by analogy with a common greenhouse, whose glass roof lets in sunlight but traps in heat. Velázquez announces over $2.6 million for community projects - Aug 17, 2007 EmpireStateNews.net,...roof design as a cost effective and viable strategy for increasing energy efficiency, reducing heat reflection that contribute to the greenhouse effect. Maverick Climate Scheme Gets Reality Check - Aug 15, 2007 Discovery Channel15, 2007 — Emulate the sun-dimming effects of large volcanic eruptions to slow the Earth's greenhouse effect, as some have proposed, may just make matters Group emphazizes inidivual approach to environment - Aug 2, 2007 Pittsburgh Post Gazette,Most of the carbon our bodies generate ends up in the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide, where scientists say it helps to create a greenhouse effect Styles & Scenes by Elizabeth Snead - Jul 27, 2007 The Envelope,...the result of damage to the earth's ozone layer - now admit that there may be previously unknown factors contributing to the deadly Greenhouse Effect. NBC Nightly News Joins Newsweek in Smearing Global Warming 'Deniers' - Aug 16, 2007 NewsBustersThe first NEWSWEEK cover story in 1988 warned THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT. DANGER: MORE HOT SUMMERS AHEAD. A Time cover in 2006 was more alarmist: BE WORRIED, NYT Supreme Court Correspondent Tangles With Media - Aug 10, 2007 National Journal,...regular readers were probably aware that her long-time insider status might be a factor in her reporting (by way of "the Greenhouse Effect"). Arctic Climate Change Is Food For Thought - Aug 14, 2007 CBS News,The greenhouse effect, a look at the Kyoto Protocol and a history of the Earth's climate. "The biology of the system is intricately intertwined, Q&A: Global Fight to Protect the Ozone Layer Celebrates 20 Years - Aug 11, 2007 Inter Press Service (subscription),The Protocol is an instrument that has helped to eliminate greenhouse-effect gases (responsible for global warming). The CFCs have a very high potential Fire Department hosting swabbing at Lincoln, 11 am-8 pm - Aug 14, 2007 Dowagiac Daily News,I don't know if it's the 'greenhouse effect,' chemicals or processed food, but tomorrow it may be touching someone in their family. 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