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Carbon dioxide is doing both these things.

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Q: Which gas is increasing in the atmosphere and intensifying the greenhouse effect?
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What would make the greenhouse effect stronger?

increasing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere


Which would make the greenhouse effect stronger?

Increasing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere


When there are increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere it is causing a what of the earth's atmosphere?

An enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is causing global warming.


The trapping of heat by a planet's atmosphere is called what?

it allows solar radiation to penetrate to the surface!


What does the greenhouse do to the gases from the atmosphere?

The greenhouse effect warms the gases in the atmosphere.


What gases cause global warming and how?

Greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane, mostly) cause global warming by increasing their levels in the atmosphere. This turns the benign greenhouse effect into an accelerated greenhouse effect which is causing global warming.


Is the greenhouse effect increasing sea levels?

The natural greenhouse effect is not raising sea levels, but the enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is causing global warming, is. The warmer atmosphere is melting glaciers and expanding the water in the oceans, so sea levels are rising.


What effect is warming the atmosphere?

The Greenhouse Effect.


What planet has an atmosphere with a greenhouse effect?

EarthVenusMarsThe greenhouse effect occurs on every planet with an atmosphere (including Earth). On Venus, there is a runaway greenhouse effect causing temperatures high enough to melt lead.Mars has a greenhouse effect that is weak because of its thin atmosphere.


Where on earth besides in a greenhouse does the greenhouse effect occur?

In the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect refers to the situation in the atmosphere where gases hold on to the heat rising from the earth.


What is the process by which gases in the atmosphere absorb and reradiate heat?

Greenhouse Effect


Does the greenhouse effect occur on the moon or the earth?

The greenhouse effect comes about when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere capture heat rising from the surface of the planet. As the moon has no atmosphere, it could not have a greenhouse effect. So the answer is: The earth.