Why is the greenhouse effect important to your survival?

Answer 1

If we choose to do what we can to reduce greenhouse gases, we can help prevent global warming. Global warming is predicted to cause potentially catastrophic climate change, rising sea levels, loss of wildlife habitat and biodiversity, and serious economic harm in the medium and long term.

Answer 2

• The greenhouse effect keeps the environment (and the planet) warm enough for life.

• The enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is causing global warming is heating up the environment too fast and too dangerously.

A:the suns rays keep the earth warm

the ozone layer traps some of the rays and lets the rest bounce back into space

the greenhouse gases stop them from going back into space and they make the earth warmer

this is the greenhouse effect

it causes the ice caps in Antarctica to melt

it causes desertification

and ruins the environment.

A:Greenhouse gases are adding to the greenhouse house effect which is affecting global warming. Gases help trap heat causing temperatures to rise affecting not only humans but animals as well. Due to the rise in temperature glaciers are melting fast threatening the animals that live there.

The earth's "greenhouse effect" is what makes this planet suitable and warm enough for life as we know it. The earth's atmosphere contains trace gases, some of which absorb heat. These gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and nitrous oxide) are referred to as "greenhouse gases." Albedo has an important influence on the earth's temperature. Greenhouses are structures designed to retain heat. The heat-trapping ability of a greenhouse is influenced by a number of factors including the transparency of the greenhouse cover, color of the surfaces inside the greenhouse, and type of surfaces inside. Atmospheric scientists first used the term 'greenhouse effect' in the early 1800s.

At that time, it was used to describe the naturally occurring functions of trace gases in the atmosphere and did not have any negative connotations. It was not until the mid-1950s that the term greenhouse effect was coupled with concern over climate change. And in recent decades, we often hear about the greenhouse effect in somewhat negative terms. The negative concerns are related to the possible impacts of an enhanced greenhouse effect.

It is important to remember that without the greenhouse effect, life on earth as we know it would not be possible. In the atmospheric greenhouse effect, the type of surface that sunlight first encounters is the most important factor. Forests, grasslands, ocean surfaces, ice caps, deserts, and cities all absorb, reflect, and radiate radiation differently. Sunlight falling on a white glacier surface strongly reflects back into space, resulting in minimal heating of the surface and lower atmosphere. Sunlight falling on a dark desert soil is strongly absorbed, on the other hand, and contributes to significant heating of the surface and lower atmosphere. Cloud cover also affects greenhouse warming by both reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth's surface and by reducing the amount of radiation energy emitted into space. Scientists use the term albedo to define the percentage of solar energy reflected back by a surface. Understanding local, regional, and global albedo effects is critical to predicting global climate change.

Answer 3

It would be a mistake to stop the greenhouse effect because this is keeping the earth warm enough for life. But we have to stop instead the enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect because this is causing global warming.

Answer 4

This is an area of grave concern. Global warming is something which is gradually and silently eating the whole world and non of us is very much aware of the same.

Global warming is not only a natural threat that is eating us, but bigger danger is lying ahead in upcoming years. When there will change in human behavior?

Because of global warming, people will migrate from one part of the world to the other. But by that time global warming would hardly leave an inch on this earth.

Second major concern would be WATER by that time.

Answer 5

The natural greenhouse effect is important because it has been keeping the earth warm for millions of years, allowing life to thrive on this planet. It does this by trapping some of the sun's heat as it radiates back out from the surface of the earth. We would all freeze to death without it.

The enhanced or accelerated greenhouse effect, which is what is happening now, is important because it is causing global warming and climate change.

Answer 6

Sunlight energy hits the earth which then changes to heat energy. This heat energy is then held in by the earth's atmosphere. If not for this, the earth's temperature would be below freezing and no life forms would exist.

Answer 7

There has always been a natural greenhouse effect in the earth's atmosphere. That's what keeps our planet warm enough for life.

But we need to prevent the enhanced greenhouse effectbecause the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, from burning fossil fuels and deforestation is causing global warming or climate change.

A:To prevent green house effect people would need to change what they use to produce resources. there are many ways but most can cost to much, hard to build and control, can't find suitable locations to create the facility's.

Some alternatives can be;

1. building solar panels
2. hydroelectric energy (dams and water)
3. ocean thermal energy
4. wind
5. biomass/biofuel
6. geothermal energy

Answer 8

It is important that we take action sooner rather than later. In the long run - which is not in our lifetimes - the environment will get worse and evolve and humans, plants and animals will have to adapt to a different type of living situation.

Answer 9

There are many ways in which you can help prevent the greenhouse effect. One way is to stop wasteful spending. Don't buy anything unless you absolutely need it.