Paper Summary:

This paper relates that the greenhouse effect is essential to life here on Earth and how it simply is the absorption and emission of infrared radiation by atmospheric gases. Without the protective dome created by the effect, life could not be sustained. The paper then goes on to examine how, unfortunately, human activity is now seriously threatening the survival of not only out own species, but of all life on Earth. The paper explains the background and discovery of the effect, the controversies surrounding it and steps that can be taken for a less damaging conformable lifestyle.

From the Paper:

"The Greenhouse gas effect occurs in the surface-troposphere and was discovered in 1824 by the French mathematician and physicist, Joseph Fourier, and subsequently experimented on in 1858 by John Tyndall. The idea of the greenhouse effect was finally published by Svante Arrhenius in 1896. The Greenhouse effect is part of the reason Earth supports life; without its relatively constant temperature, the delicate balance of life would be tipped. The main Greenhouse Gases are water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone. The effect is when the warmth of the sun gets trapped in the lower atmosphere, owing to the fact that the atmospheres' shell was weakened and allows more radiation in than the plant gives back. Consider the way heat in a greenhouse gets trapped by the glass, and how that heat in the greenhouse support the life it contains. However, these gases could not prepare for a distructive, carbon-based life form error. "

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