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The trapping of heat by carbon dioxide and water vapor is known as the_

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It's known as the greenhouse effect.
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Greenhouse effect.
Here is what the greenhouse effect does: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.

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