greenhouse effect

     

The greenhouse effect is the process in which the emission of infrare radiation by the atmosphere warms a planet's surface. The name comes from an incorrect analogy with the warming of air inside a greenhouse compared to the air outside the greenhouse. The greenhouse effect was discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1824 and first investigated quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.

Trivia about greenhouse effect

  • Heating "effect" that's said to be at the root of global warming
  • Global warming caused by this "effect" could force the evacuation of some coastal lowlands
  • When the Earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation, it's called this effect
  • This "colorful" atmospheric heating phenomenon is efecto invernadero
  • Without this "effect", the average temperature on Earth would be about 0 degrees
  • Colorful term that refers to the gradual heating of Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide in the air
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew explains a diagram shown on a screen.) Many people are concerned about the long-term consequences of this effect that traps energy from the sun

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