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The greenhouse effect is simply the atmosphere's ability to retain heat. This is caused by gases, which we call greenhouse gases. These gases trap heat, rather like greenhouses trap heat to help grow plants in cold climates.

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Does deforestoration increase the greenhouse effect?

Yes, deforestation increases the greenhouse effect because trees absorb carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) from the atmosphere. When trees are cut down or burned, this stored carbon is released back into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and climate change.


What will most likely increase the greenhouse effect?

Increased emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane from human activities like burning fossil fuels and deforestation.


Is natural gas the major cause of the greenhouse effect?

In terms of greenhouse effect, natural gas is more benign than coal or oil, because it provides a greater heating effect per unit of carbon dioxide produced. It is therefore not the major cause of the greenhouse effect.


What effects can deforeststation have on the climate?

Primarily, deforestation release carbon into the atmosphere that becomes carbon dioxide. This is a greenhouse gas, and adding more of it to the atmosphere will tend to enhance the natural greenhouse effect. As a result, deforestation tends to contribute to the warming of the earth.


Which effect is responsible for global warming?

The greenhouse effect is primarily responsible for global warming. This process involves the trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, leading to a rise in global temperatures. Human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, have significantly increased the concentration of these gases, intensifying the greenhouse effect and contributing to global warming.

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What effects does deforestation have on the climate?

Deforestation is a contributor to global warming, and is often cited as one of the major causes of the enhanced greenhouse effect. Tropical deforestation is responsible for approximately 20% of world greenhouse gas emissions


Does deforestoration increase the greenhouse effect?

Yes, deforestation increases the greenhouse effect because trees absorb carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) from the atmosphere. When trees are cut down or burned, this stored carbon is released back into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and climate change.


did the greenhouse effect increase?

Yes. When we started burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) and cutting down the great forests of the worldd (deforestation), the normal greenhouse effect began to change into the accelerated, or enhanced greenhouse effect which we now have.


How is deforestation adding to the greenhouse effect?

Trees remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their trunks and branches. When deforestation happens and the trees are burnt or rot, that carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, and because no more trees are planted, there is no longer anything to remove the CO2. This is how deforestation adds to the greenhouse effect.


What are the two types of greenhouse?

The natural greenhouse effect keeps the earth warm enough for life.The enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect (caused by burning fossil fuels and deforestation) leads to global warming and climate change.(There is also the very dangerous runaway greenhouse effect that happened on Venus.)


How would deforestation impact the global environment?

Forests and all vegetation remove carbon dioxide from the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Deforestation, cutting them down, means that the greenhouse effect is increasing. This is causing global warming and climate change.


What human activity contributes to the greenhouse effect?

Deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).


What is the relationship between deforestation of the rainforest the greenhouse effect and global warming?

Deforestation of the rainforests destroyed trees that used to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. This allows CO2 levels to build up in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases cause the greenhouse effect, keeping the earth warm. Because of deforestation and man's burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity, levels of CO2 in the air are rising, causing global warming.


What will most likely increase the greenhouse effect?

Increased emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane from human activities like burning fossil fuels and deforestation.


What are the two types of greenhouse effect?

The natural greenhouse effect keeps the earth warm enough for life.The enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect (caused by burning fossil fuels and deforestation) leads to global warming and climate change.(There is also the very dangerous runaway greenhouse effect that happened on Venus.)


What are the effects of combustion and deforestation and how do they relate to the greenhouse effect?

Combustion (burning) of any material usually releases carbon dioxide, as carbon is such a major component of everything on earth. Deforestation (removal of trees) means that the trees are no longer able to take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is the greenhouse gases retaining warmth from the sun. Any increase of greenhouse gases (as carbon dioxide is) leads to a warming in the atmosphere.


What increases the temperature around the planet?

The enhanced greenhouse effect,which is caused by extra amounts of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide,which is caused by burning fossil fuels and deforestation.