what is greenhouse effect?

Question

what is greenhouse effect? explain very simply please!
and what does greenhouse connects with global warming?

Answer 1

The greenhouse effect is what cause's global warming. The greenhouse gasses (Like the fuel in your car, Carbon Dioxide, ect.)
form above Earth, when the gasses are very close together, they heat up, thus making the Earth warmer.

That's why people are worried about buisness' cutting down trees & other plants, because plants give out oxygen, and take away Carbon Dioxide.

Answer 2

Firstly, the greenhouse effect refers to the trapping of radiative heat in a semi-transparent enclosure. The light gets in at a high energy, but the light reflected back at a lower energy cannot penetrate the enclosure. For example, the glass in a greehouse heats up this way in winter when the sun shines (allowing the Dutch to grow bananas indoors!). Also, this is why cars get very hot in the sun, and why glass tinting or covering the windows helps, by reducing the amount of thermal radiation that gets in in the first place.

In the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect traps heat from the sun. Naturally occurring greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. I'm not sure what the connection to global warming is, though.

Answer 3

Ok it sounds like some people are getting the destruction of ozone and the greenhouse effect confused.

The ozone destruction has been proved chemically and occurs from the result of releasing CFC's (cloroflourocarbons) into the atomosphere. CFC's destroy ozone (O3) into O2, which allows the earth to be bombarded by UV rays. THIS IS NOT THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT!!

The greenhouse effect is vital to the earth staying warm. It is the process by which greenhouse gases (any gas over 3 molecules big, such as CO2, H2O, SO2, NH3 etc) common in engine combustion, trap in heat from the sun and heat the earth.

The planet Venus is a perfect example of the greenhouse effect run rampant. Concentrations of greenhouse gases are high and as a result, the planet is very hot.

On earth, some scientists speculate that since we have had a few warm years and the concentration of CO2 (a byproduct of engine combustion) has increased over the past few years, the planet is headed for destruction and its all man's fault.

I say until there is proof that the warm weather is the result of man's combustion of fossil fuels, I will continue to drive my V-8 mustang and burn natural gas in my home (also produces CO2).

Somebody should ask these so called scientists who think global warming is man's fault how they would like coming home to a cold house and walking to work when it is 20 below outside...

No fuel burned produces a non-greenhouse gas, so until we find something that burns pure (releases no H2O, CO2, SO2 or the like) people are bound to say its all mans fault the earth is warming.

The truth is we all must be smarter than the TV feeding us this information.

Answer 4

High energy heat radiation gets into the Earth but when it tries to get out again as lower energy radiation it gets trapped under a blanket of greenhouse gas. This is mainly the carbon dioxide of which there is a lot more than there used to be. Heat gets in but can't get back out to space, so the Earth will warm up.

Don't confuse global warming with the ozone layer. Ozone layer destruction does not cause global warming but it has the same origin and that is pollution.

Answer 5

Bad gas from smoke stacks and car exhausts contain very high amounts of chemicals. They escape into the atmosphere but are trapped between the ozone layer above earth and the sun's energy rays, which keeps the gas from moving. It is in stalemate, it can't move in either direction. This causes good atmosphere to be contaminated and for holes to be caused in the ozone layer (very dangerous because it now lets in more UVA/B rays from the sun and causes the earth's temperature to rise). I would recommend watching the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" it explains global warming very simply and all of it effects.

Answer 6

the green house effect is when the ultraviolet rays from the sun travel to earth... and most of them are reflected off the surface due to the ozone layer... without ozone, we would fry up like a piece of toast...

the ozone only lets a portion of the UV rays into our atmosphere which heats up the earth just a little bit...

the ozone also helps keep the earth cooler...

now about global warming...

without the greenhouse effect... the UV rays from the sun would cook us literally... global warming is when the holes in the ozone get bigger and whatsoever and then the earth has less and less ozone to reflect off all the UV rays... causing the earth to heat up...

Answer 7

EP, enable me ensure from the outset that i understand little or no in this undertaking, so, regardless of our disagreements in the previous, I’m *not* contradicting you right here – in simple terms attempting to understand. I’m additionally at a loss for words via the section you highlighted. If the planet won 240 W/m^2 of potential from the sunlight, how can the ambience “radiate 240 W/m^2 into area, [and] additionally radiate 240 W/m^2 back in direction of the floor”? The regulation of conservation of potential states that potential can't be created or destroyed, yet, in accordance on your description, the ambience is receiving 240 W/m^2, yet reradiating a finished of 480 W/m^2. in the previous each and every little thing look this seems to be impossible. What am I lacking that makes this artwork? :::EDIT::: Oh, so the “radiate 240 W/m^2 into area, [and] additionally radiate 240 W/m^2 back in direction of the floor” quote is the placement *after* equilibrium is reached? So it’s the placement on the tip element, not the beginning element?

Answer 8

It's a mass delusion started by sufferers of the Chicken Little Syndrome. Those affected waste way too much time worrying about things of which nothing can be done about or are totally imaginary. Paranoia causes these delusions and it's horrible how so many otherwise intelligent people can be taken in by such idiotic ramblings of unstable minds.
(paranoia can be caused by too many drugs or too much alcohol intake.)
It's like bill clinton said; "If you tell a big lie long and loud enough, people will begin to think there is some truth to it." Case in point; "Guns are evil."

Answer 9

It the the mythical effect that co2 and various other gasses in the atmosphere trap heat in. Some people believe the heat will keep intensifying. Funny how most of them aren't climatologist.