Greenhouse effect

The greenhouse effect is a natural process that works to maintain the warmth radiating onto the Earth’s surface. It was first discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1842, and was later expanded on by John Tyndall in 1858 and Svante Arrhenius in 1896 (Princeton.edu, 2014). When the sun’s energy reaches our atmosphere, greenhouse gasses absorb some of it and some is reflected back into space. Greenhouse gasses include nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, water vapour, ozone and some artificial chemical such as

Introduction Most people around the world do not fully understand the meaning of the greenhouse effect, or the affects the greenhouse effect has on the world. In fact, many believe that the greenhouse effect is simply contributes to global warming, and that it has no real value to the earth. But what many are not aware of it that the greenhouse effect is the planet’s natural way of obtaining a specific temperature in which living organisms can survive. Many people are not aware of the consequences

The Greenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect is the result of the interaction of the atmosphere of a world and the radiation emitted from the Sun and planet. This process essentially makes a world warmer that it would be. As we will learn in this chapter there are many factors that determine the strength of a world’s greenhouse effect including a world’s size, the world’s distance from the Sun and the strength of a world’s magnetic field. Before you can learn about the factors that influence the greenhouse

climate change. We need stronger climate leadership, to be sure, but instead of waiting for heroes to save us, maybe we can all help out and do some of the work ourselves? August 7, 2016 — It’s 2016, and we’ve known about climate change and the greenhouse effect for a very long time. And yet, despite decades of scientific research, reports, and warnings confirming the urgency of climate change, too many of our political leaders have done too little to actually solve the problem. Of course, there are

discuss the difference the greenhouse effect plays in the atmosphere of the Moon, Earth, and Venus. Energy from the sun heats the earth surface and atmosphere. Short wave solar radiation is the energy that comes from the sun. When this radiation passes through the atmosphere and strikes an object three things happen. First, some of the energy is absorbed. Second, some simply transmit this energy. Third, some bounce off the object without being absorbed. The greenhouse effect is the transmission of these

lay by the sea. An estimated sea level increase of five mm a year means seaside break down, damage to environments, lack of area, and will power people to move. Another impact of the Greenhouse Effect is the increase and distributes of illnesses like Malaria and could cause to more warm related fatalities. The Greenhouse impact is not something to power aside. Although it could take 100's of years for it to take serious impact, if we act now we could slowly it down to its natural speed. When we look

things come to mind. The greenhouse effect, pollution, carbon dioxide and of course, the earths temperatures rising. When people hear of the greenhouse effect do they actually know what it is. The suns UV rays hit the earth and 30% of the energy reflected back into space, 47% gets absorbed by gasses and turns into heat energy. The rest is shared between the water cycle, photosynthesis Some of the heat tries to escape back into the atmosphere but is trapped by the greenhouse gasses. This in turn makes

The Greenhouse Effect: Causes & Impacts INTRODUCTION The greenhouse effect refers to circumstances where the short wavelengths of visible light from the sun pass through a transparent medium and are absorbed, but the longer wavelengths of the infrared re-radiation from the heated objects are unable to pass through that medium. The trapping of the long wavelength radiation leads to more heating and a higher resultant temperature. Besides the heating of an automobile by sunlight through the windshield

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. What is the Greenhouse Effect? The Earth’s climate is determined by the receipt and distribution of the radiation received from the sun (Dunne, 2013). Light from the sun undertakes three corridors: 25% is absorbed by the atmosphere, 30% is reflected back into space and 45% is absorbed by the Earth’s surface (Dunne, 2013). The light absorbed by the Earth’s surface is converted into energy and used for the various biological processes. In the atmosphere, some gases have strong

Much like the glass of a greenhouse, gases in our atmosphere sustain life on Earth by trapping the sun 's heat. The Earth’s atmosphere contains several different gases that act like a blanket, keeping the Earth warm. Water vapour and some trace gases like CO2, CH4 (methane), O3 (ozone), N2O (nitrous oxide), are “IR active”, i.e. they absorb heat energy, and stop the warmth from escaping into space. Without the entrapment of heat, the earth’s mean temperature would be -180 C and life, as we know it