Greenhouse+Gas+Effect

What is the Greenhouse effect? A Green house is a house like structure (walls and roof) which is made of glass. Plants of may varietys are grown in these houses through out the year. the ability to grow plant in winter is because sunlight shines in and warms the plants and air inside. But the heat is trapped by the glass and can't escape. So during the daylight hours, it gets warmer and warmer inside a greenhouse, which keeps inside fairly warm at night also.

The earths atmosphere does the same thing as the glass Greenhouse. Gases that are let off into the athmosphere such as carbondioxide does what the glass does. During daylight hours the sun shines through the atmosphere warming the Earths surface. At Night Earth's surface cool's and realeses the warmth back in to the air. But some of the heat is trapped by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. That's what keeps our Earth temperture at a cozy average.

The way that this effects us is that as more gasses are released into the atmopsphere. The athmosphere gets thicker, this is like the glass getting thicker and foggy.Too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the air are making the greenhouse effect stronger. the heat that will normaly release bace into space get blocked and trapped in the atmosphere which is slowly increase the average tempertures of the Earth.