Without meaning to repeat what we have said in the above greenhouse effect definition we are now going to talk about what causes the greenhouse effect. In this section we are also going to provide you with a diagram that we hope better displays exactly what happened when it comes to the causes of the greenhouse effect.
The term 'greenhouse effect' is used because a conventional green house is something that portrays what is happening, all be it on a smaller scale. The sun radiates it's energy, or heat, to the earth and this comes in through the atmosphere and warms the surface of the earth as well as any gases in the air that have particles that respond to sunlight. These gases are commonly known as greenhouse gases, please click here for more information on exactly what these are. These greenhouse gases are spread throughout the atmosphere and when they start to warm up, because of the sun's heat, they reciprocate the heat with the gases next to them, so as these are evenly spread this makes for a lot of heated up gas molecules!
The effect now is that the atmosphere is warmer because of these heated up gases and therefore the earth becomes warmer, this in a nutshell is the greenhouse effect.
Because the earth is becoming warmer because of the greenhouse effect the 'term global warming' is used, so basically global warming is the result of the greenhouse effect and the gases that trap heat inside the atmosphere instead of allowing the heat to reflect back into space is what causes the greenhouse effect.
Perhaps this diagram can better show what causes the greenhouse effect.
grenhouse effect.
We do hope that this section has been able to understand the basics of what causes the greenhouse effect. There is plenty more information on our site all about what causes global warming and what climate change is so please take a look around while you are here.
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