Greenhouse effect

Synonyms for "greenhouse effect" (6 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
anthropogenic warmingatmospheric warming

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
climate warming

Related words (3)

Noun(3 words)
global warminggreenhouse warminghuman caused warming

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

3 entries
atmospheric phenomenonclimate phenomenonenvironmental process

More specific

6 entries
cloud feedbackextreme weathergas trappinginfrared trappingsea level risewater vapor feedback

Collocations

6 entries
carbon dioxidegreenhouse gasheat trappinginfrared radiationlongwave radiationsolar radiation

Inflections

1 entries
greenhouse effects

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easy, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth's surface.

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It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.

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This contrasts strangely with Mr. Bush's campaign oratory last summer. “Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the ‘White House effect’; as President, I intend to do something about it,” he said in Michigan on Aug. 31. […] Mr. Bush has not acted.

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In August 1988, Hansen had given dramatic testimony to Congress asserting that “the scientific evidence for the greenhouse effect is overwhelming.” “The greenhouse effect is real, it is coming soon, and it will have major effects on all peoples.”

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