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    What Is The Greenhouse Effect?

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    The greenhouse effect is a process where greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone, absorb and reradiate thermal radiation from the planetary surface, trapping heat and warming the planet. While this benefits plant life through photosynthesis and increased temperatures, disadvantages include higher temperatures risking melting of polar ice caps which could disrupt ocean currents and freeze continents.

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    The greenhouse effect is a process where greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone, absorb and reradiate thermal radiation from the planetary surface, trapping heat and warming the planet. While this benefits plant life through photosynthesis and increased temperatures, disadvantages include higher temperatures risking melting of polar ice caps which could disrupt ocean currents and freeze continents.

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    The greenhouse effect is a process where greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone, absorb and reradiate thermal radiation from the planetary surface, trapping heat and warming the planet. While this benefits plant life through photosynthesis and increased temperatures, disadvantages include higher temperatures risking melting of polar ice caps which could disrupt ocean currents and freeze continents.

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    The greenhouse effect is a process where greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone, absorb and reradiate thermal radiation from the planetary surface, trapping heat and warming the planet. While this benefits plant life through photosynthesis and increased temperatures, disadvantages include higher temperatures risking melting of polar ice caps which could disrupt ocean currents and freeze continents.

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    What is the Greenhouse Effect?

    The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a


    planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is reradiated in all directions.
    What are the Gases related to the Greenhouse Effect?
    The gases related to the greenhouse effect are water vapor (H2O), Carbon
    Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and Ozone (O3).
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Greenhouse Effect?
    Carbon dioxide gasses are advantageous to the proliferation of plant-life as
    they provide both fuel for photosynthesis, as well as increase the average
    planetary temperature of the planet (assuming no disruption of the oceanic
    halines ).
    The disadvantages include increased planetary temperatures for animal
    life, as well as the potential to melt polar icecaps, which would distrupt the
    oceanic halines which keep most of the continents from feezing.

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