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greenhouse effect
Warming of a planet by an atmosphere that lets sunlight in and holds heat back.
Concept
Identifiers
Wikidata Q41560
Appears in
4 items
Climate Science
4 items
The greenhouse on paper
1824
Fourier: the atmosphere keeps the Earth warm
1824
Tyndall measures heat absorbed by gases
May 1859
Arrhenius calculates the warming from doubled CO₂
Apr 1896
Sources
Website
The Discovery of Global Warming
