In green house effect the planet's surface get warmed by:

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Infrared radiations

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The correct option is B Infrared radiations
Process of warming of planet's surface and its lower atmosphere by the absorption of infrared radiations of long wavelength given out from the surface of a planet is known as green house effect. In 1824, Joseph Fourier discovered the green house effect.

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