Explaining Greenhouse Gasses and the Effect! 🚕

You may know everything you want and need to know about greenhouse gasses. Personally, I've always found it a little confusing and I forget it. So I'm going to explain it for people like me, so hopefully you'll leave my blog having learnt something. 

Greenhouses (the buildings) are made of glass and are built for the sunlight to seep in, warm the closed area and not let the warmth escape. That is why greenhouse gasses get their name, because they do the same. They allow the sunlight into the Earth's atmosphere and keep it there to warm us up, which is good because without them, the Earth would turn freezing cold. 

This is a step by step on the greenhouse effect: 

1. The Sun provides energy.
2. The energy enters the Earth's atmosphere.
3. The Earth absorbs this energy as warmth, although some of it travels back up through the atmosphere to space.
4. Greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide help keep the warmth inside.

But it's not all good.

Scientists worry human actions are adding too much of these gasses to the atmosphere, trapping too much warmth in which causes the Earth to heat up (and icebergs to melt!).  For example: when we farm animals, we fatten them up and animals like cows let out the gas methane; burning fossil fuels like coal causes carbon dioxide. 

 However, there are ways to help reduce greenhouse gasses (as always😄):

• Turning off lights when you leave rooms - use less energy
• Eat less red meat 
• Plant a tree - plants help by taking in carbon dioxide and giving out oxygen
• Drive less: walk or cycle more!
• Cut down on hot water and air conditioning
• Use the 4Rs! Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Thank you for reading this post, it's more on facts than tips, but still. I hope you learnt something (maybe I just reminded you about something you already knew) when you read this. See you next Sunday!

Violet

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