the greenhouse effect

noun

: the warming of the Earth's atmosphere that is caused by air pollution

Note: The greenhouse effect occurs when warmth from the sun is trapped in the Earth's atmosphere by a layer of gases (such as carbon dioxide) and water vapor.

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These warm, wet periods would have been driven by Mars losing water from its atmosphere to the ground, which ironically refilled the hydrogen content of the atmosphere, thus sustaining the greenhouse effect. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2025 Eunice Newton Foote described the greenhouse effect in 1856, but posterity remembers John Tyndall, who presented his own experiments three years later. — Sheila McClear, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025

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