Definition for Greenhouse effect
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The process in which short-wave solar radiation passes through the atmosphere to warm Earth but is radiated back to space as long-wave infrared radiation. Much of this radiation is absorbed by atmospheric gases and reradiated back to Earth's surface, causing its temperature to rise.