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"Why are Greenhouse gases called so?" Do you have any idea?


  • The Greenhouse Effect is a process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's heat.
  • This process increase the Earth's temperature.
  • The Greenhouse Effect is one of the things that makes Earth a comfortable place to live.


Why it is called Greenhouse Effect?

  • Because the Greenhouse Effect works like a Greenhouse.
  • A Greenhouse is a building with glass walls and a glass roof.
  • Greenhouses are used to grow plants , such as tomatoes and tropical flowers.
  • A Greenhouse capture heat from the Sun during the day.
  • It's glass walls trap the Sun's heat, which keeps plants inside the Greenhouse warm - even in cold nights.
  • If it weren't greenhouses gases , Earth would be an extremely cold , deserted planet.
  • Plants couldn't grow and and animals like us wouldn't be able to survive.

What are Greenhouse gases?

Greenhouses gases are found in Earth's atmosphere.
They can trap the solar radiation/ heat.
The main greenhouses gases are--

  • Water vapour
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Methane
  • Ozone
  • Nitrous oxide
  • Chlorofluorocarbon

How greenhouses gases acts?

  • They let Sunlight pass through the atmosphere, but they prevent the heat that the sunlight brings from leaving the atmosphere.
  • Overall greenhouses gases are good things.
  • Without them our planet would be too cold.

How greenhouses gases increase Earth's temperature?

Water vapour:- 

  • Most powerful greenhouses gas.
  • The amount of water vapour in the atmosphere exists in direct relation to the temperature.
  • It forms clouds and rains back on the Earth.
  • This can cause a Cooling Effect.

Carbon dioxide:-

  • The IPCC calculated the "Radiative Forcing" (RF) of each climate driver.
  • Positive value of RF - average surface warming
  • Negative value of RF-  average surface cooling
  • CO2 has the highest positive RF value of all the human- influenced climate drivers compared by the IPCC.

Methane:-

Made of carbon and hydrogen, is a normal gas release from wetlands, growing rice, raising cattle, using natural gas and mining coal.

Ozone:- 

Ozone layer block the Sun's radiation, which helps protect us from the powerful rays.

Nitrous oxide:-

  • Bacteria in soil and ocean make it .
  • N2O absorb radiation and trap heat in the atmosphere.
  • Emitted during agricultural activities, industrial activities, combination of fossil fuels, and during waste water treatment.

Chlorofluorocarbon:-

They damage the protective Ozone layer and are powerful greenhouse gases.

Balance the Greenhouse Effect:-

  • Earth's greenhouse is full of plants.
  • Plants can help to balance the Greenhouse Effect on Earth .
  • All types of plants from Giant trees to tiny phytoplankton in the ocean-- take in CO2 and give off O2 .
  • Which maintain the balance in between CO2 and O2 in nature.
  • If excess CO2 is not there in the atmosphere then the Earth's temperature will not be maintained.

Ocean Acidification:-


  • The ocean also absorb a lot of excess CO2 in the air.
  • Unfortunately, the increased CO2 in the ocean changes the water, and water become more acidic due to the formation of carbonic acid.

Coral Bleaching:-


  • More acidic water can be harmful to many ocean creatures, such as certain shellfish and coral.
  • More CO2 or Greenhouse gases in atmosphere increase the temperature of ocean which is also be harmful to marine creatures.
  • Warmer waters are a main cause of coral Bleaching.

Question: Up to what extent we can control the Greenhouse effect,so that we can save our nature to become more warmer.???

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https://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-effect/
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