describe greenhouse effect.how presence of greenhouse gases would leave to global warming?
Greenhouse effect may be defined as the process of steady increase in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere due to the presence of green house gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, chloroflorocarbons etc. These green house gases forms a blanket around the earth which allow the sun rays (short wave radiation) to pass through it but restricts the passage of reflected heat rays (long wave radiation) from going out of the atmosphere. This results in trapping the heat in the atmosphere leading to its increase in temperature. Hence, as the concentration of greenhouse gases increase in atmosphere, the amount of heat trapped increases resulting in rise in the overall temperature of earth.