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Question
Write short note on
Green House Effect
Short Note
Solution
- Global warming is caused by the increase of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour and Chloro Fluoro Carbons (CFC), carbon monoxide, photochemical oxidants and hydrocarbons.
- They are responsible for the heat retention ability of the atmosphere.
- Global warming causes climate change, ozone layer depletion, rise in sea level and drowning of coastal inhabited land, melting of ice, etc.,
- They are posing an even greater threat to human existence and so, man must start thinking of protecting the environment from pollution.
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