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The effects of global warming
green·house ef·fect
noun
When carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere, it traps radiation from the sun beneath the ozone layer. The radiation from the sun is what heats the earth's above ground formations.
noun
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the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
When carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere, it traps radiation from the sun beneath the ozone layer. The radiation from the sun is what heats the earth's above ground formations.