can someone please describe to me what the greenhouse effect is?

Answer 1

the greenhouse effect was invented by the liberal media to get you to buy useless sunscreen lotions

Answer 2

Quite a few of these answers are WRONG !

Here is what happens. The suns rays of various wavelengths shine through the atmosphere. Some are absorbed by the atmosphere (deep UV, some IR, etc). The rest hits the Earth and are absorbed and frequency shifted into the infra red. This infra red radiation re-radites upwards from the Earth and a significant proportion of it dissapears into space. However when CO2 concentrations increase it is a good IR absorber and it re-radiates a portion back towards the earth. CO2 acts as a blanket and the Earth's average temperature increases.

This is the greenhouse effect that can lead to global warming.

Forget all the crap about ozone, CFCs, etc. It has nothing to do with it. General low altitude industrial pollution (dust, SO2, etc) is probably working against the greenhouse effect. Our efforts to clean up the lower atmosphere lead to better lungs but may make the greenhouse effect worse!

Just what are you kids taught at school. The teachers don't seem to understand this stuff !!!!!

I have been called an idiot for my reply ! I guess my Mum was right

Answer 3

That's really a bad name. A better name would be, hot car in summer. Not everybody has worked in a green house.

It's when energy passes through an area, and gets trapped inside. If you don't crack open your windows during the summer, the car can get up to 100+ degrees because heat can't escape. That is the greenhouse effect.

With global warming, energy can get in, but can't get back out.

Answer 4

Greenhouse gas(gas such as carbon dioxide [Co2 ] )caused greenhouse effect as a result of human activities ie resource exhaustion (Fossel fuel,goal mining, coal not replaceable),waste and pollution. Largest driver is the emission of fossel fuelcombustion,cement production and land uses change such as deforestation ( for underground transportation,bursting rocks, drilling) Deforestation reduces oxygen in the atmospherr thus increases Co2. Co2, while important for plant, too much has negative implication on life on earth. It increases heath, melting ice on the north pole causes rises in sea level,causes extreem weather events including heat weaves,drought,heavy rainfall,species extinction. Co2 in not good for human inhailation,it is exhail from the body,too much can extinct life. Carbon from the atmosphere can be extracted and store in plant and soil so forrest is important.

Answer 5

Co2 or any kind of air Pollution like car emissions goes up into the atmosphere and forms a blanket of tiny particulates or gas that keep the sun's rays from bouncing back into space which traps more heat in the air. if you have ever been in a greenhouse used for plants it is more hot inside because the glass like Co2 keeps it in there.

Answer 6

Has someone told you that you should have payed attention in school or maybe not dropped out. I believe I first started learning about the greenhouse effect in like........6th grade. The class was general science(middle school). Also, you have the internet obviously, so to save embarrasement, I would have looked that subject up. You can find it in a basic search engine, ie. Yahoo, Google, etc. But, that may have never crossed your mine, after all you are asking a common 6th grader basic science question.

Answer 7

When the sun's rays hit the earth, the carbon dioxide a.k.a. greenhouse gases traps the heat keeping our atmosphere warm otherwise the heat would radiate out to space. .

Answer 8

There are gases called green house gas, of which the carbon dioxide which is responsible it absorb the radiation that is emitted by earth surface ,this happens due to the infrared rays coming from the sun . as it absorb the it get hotter and this lead to global warming , here the process of absorbing the heat by carbon dioxide is called green house effect

Answer 9

man builds greenhouse, it's warm in there. man is God, so he must be responsible for the greenhouse effect. never mind the emmissions from the earth itself, volcanic, methane hydrate, co2 releases from water, and soil, forest fires, etc. etc.

Answer 10

a green hse is essentially a glass hse used to trap sunlight so plants can hav a higher temperature.. so green hse effect is similar, but it involves greenhouse gases lyk co2 etc to trap heat frm the sun, increasing earth's average temp.