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What is the greenhouse effect? The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation. The heating of a solid, such as a rock. The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.
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What is the greenhouse effect? The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation. The heating of a solid, such as a rock. The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.

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The greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
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The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation

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