Why is it called "Greenhouse Effect"?

Question

25 years or so ago we ate up the ozone layer ( with aerasol cans and gas emmissions) so we have no protection from the sun. Is this not a wrong analogy?

Answer 1

Because in a greenhouse, the glass intensifies the heat, like the Greenhouse gases are doing to the Earth

Answer 2

The gasses form sort of a shield around the atmosphere, not allowing clean air to circulate.  So that is almost like a glass shield around a bed of plants which we call greenhouse.  The glass allows the sun rays to go through and because no air circulates the heat intensifies.  It is the same with the gasses emitted into the air---they do not allow proper circulation of our atmosphere, but allow sun rays to go through and with that we get the greenhouse effect.  Of course, this is just a very simplified explanation, the entire process of how the gasses form a layer around the earth is much more complicated....

Answer 3

cato_ you do talk rubbish dont you

Answer 4

Greenhouses are used to grow plants, especially in the winter. Greenhouses work by trapping heat from the sun.

The glass panels of the greenhouse let in light but keep heat from escaping. This causes the greenhouse to heat up, much like the inside of a car parked in sunlight, and keeps the plants warm enough to live in the winter.

Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere behave much like the glass panes in a greenhouse.

Without these gases, heat would escape back into space and Earth’s average temperature would be about 60ºF colder. Because of how they warm our world, these gases are referred to as greenhouse gases.

and their impact, as the green house effect.

Answer 5

It's called the "Greenhouse Effect" because it used to be believed that greenhouses stayed warm for the same reason: the visible light goes through the glass and is converted to infrared (heat) radiation, but the glass is opaque to infrared and so the greenhouse stays warm.  That is why the Earth is warm, except instead of glass there are gases in the atmosphere (mainly water vapor and CO2) that absorb the outgoing heat radiation and send it back toward Earth.  It's actually not a good term for it, though, because it was found that greenhouses are warm for a different reason: they suppress convection that carries heat away.  They figured this out in a clever way, they built greenhouses from salt, instead of glass, and they were just as warm, even though salt is transparent to infrared.

So greenhouses are NOT warm because of the greenhouse effect.

Answer 6

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We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

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Answer 7

Because the effect is the same as that which keeps a greenhouse warm..Light from the sun comes in as, for example visible light, hits the ground/plants etc and gets converted to infrared light, which can't pass out through the glass as easily as the visible light did....the heat gets trapped and keeps the greenhouse warm.

The same thing allegedly happens with global warming, only instead of glass windows, its carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses that keep the heat in.

Nikki? I don't understand your comment.  What did I say that you think is rubbish?

Answer 8

Wrong !!! The ozone layer is at the edge if space. It is produced when the solar winds collide with the earth's magnetic field. CFC are much too heavy ,there is no way it can got there. The beta particles are attracted to the north pole and makes it negative. The alpha particles are attracted to the south pole and make it positive. The differential between the poles supply the huge current that holds the O3 up there . O3 is not stable without the charge. When U fly a space craft through it U must turn off the high voltage or it will arc and burn something up..Do your research and U will find that the green house is not there.

Answer 9

it's called the greenhouse effect because that  happens in the atmosfere works the same way as a greenhouse.

When you destroy the ozone layer, all the energy form the sun enters the atmosfere and the huge amount of CO2 doesn't let the heat gets out, so it works like a greenhouse.

Answer 10

the effects of greenhouse must be good

Answer 11

named after the greeny people who made it up