How do carbon emissions build up over time causing the greenhouse effect?

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Joel Cherry

Chemistry

11 November, 00:51

How do carbon emissions build up over time causing the greenhouse effect?

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Avah Lindsey · Answer 1

Global warming isn't a new study in science. The basics of the phenomenon were worked out by Svante Arrhenius in 1896. His paper, published in the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, was the first to quantify the contribution of carbon dioxide to the greenhouse effect.

The sun bombards Earth with enormous amounts of radiation, which strike Earth's atmosphere in the form of visible light, plus ultraviolet (UV), infrared (IR) and other types of radiation that are invisible to the human eye.