AGW: What Is the Greenhouse Effect?

As heat, in the form of Infrared Radiation, radiates away from Earth’s surface, the only thing that slows down its escape is the heaviest atmospheric gases, such as carbon dioxide, commonly called ‘greenhouses gases’. This blanketing effect keeps our planet from being a perpetual ‘ball of ice’.

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Examples of related articles—

What Is the Greenhouse Effect?

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/what-is-the-greenhouse-effect.html

How the Media Gets It Wrong On Climate Change:

https://theconversation.com/the-false-the-confused-and-the-mendacious-how-the-media-gets-it-wrong-on-climate-change-1558

(and much, much more / from 2011):

This is the final part of our series Clearing up the Climate Debate. To read the other instalments, follow (click on) the links below:

• Part One: Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community.

• Part Two: The greenhouse effect is real: here’s why.

• Part Three: Speaking science to climate policy.

• Part Four: Our effect on the earth is real: how we’re geo-engineering the planet

• Part Five: Who’s your expert? The difference between peer review and rhetoric

• Part Six: Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review

• Part Seven: When scientists take to the streets it’s time to listen up.

• Part Eight: Australia’s contribution matters: why we can’t ignore our climate responsibilities

• Part Nine: A journey into the weird and wacky world of climate change denial

• Part Ten: The chief troupier: the follies of Mr Monckton

• Part Eleven: Rogues or respectable? How climate change sceptics spread doubt and denial

• Part Twelve: Bob Carter’s climate counter-consensus is an alternate reality