What is the difference b/w Global Warming & Greenhouse Effect?

Answer 1

The terms are used badly by many people. Greenhouse effect is the larger category, global warming is a part of the greenhouse effect. More:

"Greenhouse Effect" is the effect of greenhouse gases, primarily water vapor, that hold heat close to the Earth. It's mostly a natural process and is necessary to keep the Earth reasonably warm.

"Global Warming" is excessive greenhouse effect caused by man, primarily by releasing carbon dioxide (another greenhouse gas) from burning fossil fuels. Left unchecked it will flood coastal cities and severely damage agriculture.

The graph below is good. The tiny teeth are plants naturally controlling the greenhouse effect. In summer they absorb CO2 and it goes down. In winter it goes up. The big push upwards is us, burning fossil fuels.

http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/mauna_loa_record/mlo_record.html

Answer 2

Global warming is at the fore front because politicians found how to use a new platform to get re-elected. The world leaders use it because they found ways to make money at it. This is a made up problem just like Global Cooling in the 1970's. Wake up people. I agree we need to be more efficient with our resources, and we should fine and jail companies who are dumping into our rivers maliciously. I want to stop the raiforest destruction, but to say that global warming is a serious man made issue and we need to destroy the American economy and bow down to the rest of the world certainly does not float my boat. Follow the money on this one and you will see that it is all for political gain and grant money for those scientists who profit off of the government if global warming stays at the front of the issues. Look deep into the Keoto (sp?) Treaty, first of all they took jets to a non-central resort location. Not very environmentally concious. THen in the parameters of the treaty they have a clause that makes it so you can buy or sell polution credits. This is all about shifting wealth and breaking down the United States. This is painfully obvious, just look at peoples agenda. The earth's mean temperature has risen .6 degrees C in the past 125 years. Greenland's icecaps have gotten colder in the past 10 years. The Scientists who do not gain anything on their posisition will tell you that the earth has a natural progression and this is what we are seeing. The UN report is made up of POLITICIANS not a good spread of scientists. THere are as many or more scientists who believe that man in NOT the reason and it is over hyped, but their voice is not heard in the LIberal Mainstream Media. This issue is 99% political, and an attempt to make the USA a socialist nation, and eventually communisim. WAKE UP AMERICA, IT IS TIME TO BE AMERICANS. FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE. STOP THE LIES

Answer 3

The greenhouse effect is the trapping of heat from the sun. The heat raises the temperature of the earth's surface, which is global warming. Therefore, the greenhouse effect causes global warming.

Answer 4

They appear to be the same.

The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, for example) trap energy from the sun. Without these gases, heat would escape back into space and Earth’s average temperature would be about 60ºF colder. Because of how they warm our world, these gases are referred to as greenhouse gases.

Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected continuation of rising temperatures.

Answer 5

The greenhouse effect has little to do with temperature changes. NASA scientific data has shown most of the changes of temperature are due to changes in the Sun.

Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all have global warming right now.

""Rapid changes between ice ages and warm periods (called interglacials) are recorded in the Greenland ice sheet. Occurring over ONE OR TWO DECADES, the warming of the Earth at the end of the last ice age "

"the warming of the Earth at the end of the last ice age happened much faster than the RATE OF CHANGE of the Earth’s ORBIT"

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_Evidence/Images/gisp2_temperature.gif

Answer 6

HI, green House effect happens due to CO2, CH4, etc gases. They keep the worm radiations in the atmosphere and it cause to increase the Global Warming.

Answer 7

global warming means rapid heat of earth. it is caused by green
house gases.Green house gases are gases which will reflect all the sunlight. it does nt allow the sunlight to get refracted.from the earth atmosphere.
Due to green house effect global warming will occur.