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Meanings of greenhouse effect in English

Portuguese
efeito-estufa

Warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth.

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Usage of greenhouse effect in English
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It contains information on global warming, climate change and the greenhouse effect.
The Irish Times
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The runaway greenhouse effect forced Green Puritans to consider planetary management.
Futures 1
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This is called the enhanced greenhouse effect, writes Prof William Reville.
The Irish Times
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His primary current concern is the threat of global warming from the greenhouse effect.
Radio NZ
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We continue to increase the greenhouse effect by burning more and more fossil fuels.
The Guardian
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Carbon dioxide and water made for a double greenhouse effect.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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But it happens to suffer from a monstrous greenhouse effect.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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Could an insulating material create a solid-state greenhouse effect warm enough to make Mars habitable?
Wired
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Perhaps the greenhouse effect was stronger in the past.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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On Earth, the greenhouse effect is about to go runaway; on Mars, it ran away.
Wired
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Most people know that the world is gradually warming up because of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
The Irish Times
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The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.
Snow Crash
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We have the science, with predictions of a manmade greenhouse effect dating back to the 1890s.
The Guardian
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Now I know what the " greenhouse effect" is all about.
The Irish Times
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Concern about the enhanced greenhouse effect concentrates mainly on the role played by carbon dioxide, or CO2.
The Irish Times
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This stripped carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and weakened the greenhouse effect, triggering a lethal ice age.
BBC
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