greenhouse effects

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  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of greenhouse effect.
  greenhouse effect

  noun

  Often the greenhouse effect a phenomenon in which carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases in a planet's atmosphere absorb infrared radiation from the sun and reradiate it through the atmosphere, heating the planet: increased levels of carbon dioxide and other gases cause more of this heating radiation to be trapped on the planet and circulated through the atmosphere, contributing to a corresponding increase in the planet's overall temperature.

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greenhouse effects

The brief required Elemental to use glass, Aravena told me, without providing enough money for a proper curtain wall to mitigate heat and greenhouse effects.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2016

Introduced to replace the ozone-destroying compounds outlawed by the Montreal treaty, these refrigerants are currently managed under the United Nations climate framework because of their greenhouse effects.

From Nature ● Jun. 12, 2013

A single CFC molecule is about ten thousand times more efficient at exacerbating greenhouse effects than a molecule of carbon dioxide–and carbon dioxide is of course no slouch itself as a greenhouse gas.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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