Climate and environment
What is the greenhouse effect?
- The greenhouse effect occurs when heat-trapping gases in a planet's atmosphere prevent the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature.
- Surface heating can happen from an internal heat source or come from an external source, such as a host star.
- In the case of Earth, the Sun emits shortwave radiation (sunlight) that passes through greenhouse gases to heat the Earth's surface.
Where this comes from
- Greenhouse effect — en.wikipedia.org Atmospheric heat retention
Read the full picture
- Greenhouse effect — the article, section by section
- Ask this in movaindia — the answer with its key points and the sources behind each one
Related questions
How this page was built
The question was read for its subject and its type. The subject was searched on en.wikipedia.org, the matching article was selected, and the sentences that answer the question were taken from it. Nothing was rewritten and nothing was invented; where the source does not answer, this page says so rather than filling the gap. The full method is here.