What is the greenhouse effect? The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation. The heating of a solid, such as a rock. The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.

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Mike Mellor · Answer 1 · 2019-05-28T14:33:36+0000

The greenhouse effect is 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.

What is the greenhouse effect? The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation. The heating of a solid, such as a rock. The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.

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