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greenhouse warming

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Noun1.greenhouse warminggreenhouse warming - 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
greenhouse effect
atmospheric phenomenon - a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere


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He adds most greenhouse warming simulators have shown storms will eventually die down, which would lead them to believe waves would simmer down, too.
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Bretherton estimates that soot may contribute about 20% of overall greenhouse warming.
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If societies had bloomed and used up all the coal, oil, and natural gas several millennia earlier, greenhouse warming might have come and gone quietly, without any possibility that melting polar ice caps would eventually flood what people have erected.
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