Question
Greenhouse effect is boon or bane? Give your opinion.
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Answer
(1) The natural greenhouse effect is good, it is a boon but human enhanced greenhouse effect is a bane.$(2)$ In the absence of an atmosphere, Earth’s surface temperature would be about $-18 ^\circ\ C$, or $0 ^\circ\ F$, which is too cold for sustaining life.
(3) Earth is habitable because of the natural greenhouse effect. Heating of Earth’s atmosphere due to the presence of greenhouse gases such as water vapour, carbon dioxide $(CO_2)$, methane $(CH_4)$ and oxides of nitrogen $(NO_2)$.
(4) Greenhouse gases have just the right molecular structure to absorb infrared radiation that the Earth emits. It re-emits most of that infrared energy in all directions, warming the atmosphere to its comfortable average temperature of $15 ^\circ\ C (60 ^\circ\ F).$ So, the greenhouse effect was a boon in olden days before industrialization and invention of automobiles.
(5) However, due to human impact, the proportion of greenhouse gases has increased tremendously causing global warming. Thus, now greenhouse effect has become a bane.
(3) Earth is habitable because of the natural greenhouse effect. Heating of Earth’s atmosphere due to the presence of greenhouse gases such as water vapour, carbon dioxide $(CO_2)$, methane $(CH_4)$ and oxides of nitrogen $(NO_2)$.
(4) Greenhouse gases have just the right molecular structure to absorb infrared radiation that the Earth emits. It re-emits most of that infrared energy in all directions, warming the atmosphere to its comfortable average temperature of $15 ^\circ\ C (60 ^\circ\ F).$ So, the greenhouse effect was a boon in olden days before industrialization and invention of automobiles.
(5) However, due to human impact, the proportion of greenhouse gases has increased tremendously causing global warming. Thus, now greenhouse effect has become a bane.
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