How to Use greenhouse effect in a Sentence

greenhouse effect

noun
  • That was in the 1980s, before most people had even heard of the greenhouse effect.
    Lizzy Davies, Wired, 4 Dec. 2021
  • That trapping of heat is known as the greenhouse effect.
    Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 13 May 2019
  • Climate change is a result of a process known as the greenhouse effect.
    Emily Hernandez, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2018
  • Use the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, using the greenhouse effect.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • In about a billion years, the sun will brighten up enough to boil away the oceans on Earth through a runaway greenhouse effect.
    Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2020
  • That could cause a runaway greenhouse effect in the later part of the century.
    Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2012
  • That’s on top of a likely 1.7 C of extra warming just from the greenhouse effect of CFCs in the atmosphere.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The gas contributes to the greenhouse effect, trapping heat and warming the planet.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Both teams battled the conditions on a sweaty night in Kobe, where the roof created a kind of greenhouse effect.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Many human activities warm up the Earth through what is called the greenhouse effect, or the trapping of heat on Earth.
    Chrystelle L. Vilfranc, The Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2021
  • Since a cow has about the same greenhouse effect as a car, cutting the emissions of even a portion of the world’s 1.5bn cattle would bring great benefit.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • That’s on top of the extra warming that would have been caused by the greenhouse effect directly produced by CFCs in the atmosphere.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2021
  • This is due to a runaway greenhouse effect, Pete explains.
    Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The eruptions would have poured CO2 into the atmosphere, causing a runaway greenhouse effect that boiled the planet dry.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2021
  • These gases can then speed up the greenhouse effect—heating the permafrost further and causing more emissions.
    The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Scientists say the greenhouse effect, which helps keep the Earth warm, is now creating too much heat, especially at the poles.
    USA Today, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The land is sinking, still reacting to the collapse of glaciers thousands of years ago, and waters are rising, as the greenhouse effect from emissions warms oceans and melts polar ice.
    Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Volcanic gases, especially CO2, just built up in the air until the resulting greenhouse effect warmed the planet enough to melt the ice.
    Scott Denning, Washington Post, 4 May 2018
  • The air inside a vehicle can jump that much in a matter of minutes, even if the windows are partially open, because the windshield has a greenhouse effect.
    Matt Campbell, kansascity, 25 June 2018
  • Going greenhouse Half of the judge’s questions relate to how the greenhouse effect actually works.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Elon's goal with Mars is to find a way to speed up the greenhouse effect, heat up the planet and grow vegetation, possibly by launching nuclear warheads at the poles.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Beyond the immediate safety concerns, the leaks contribute to the greenhouse effect that has been warming the planet for decades.
    Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • So any small greenhouse effect would allow the existence of liquid water.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Carbon dioxide has a warming effect on the atmosphere and the planet, creating a greenhouse effect by trapping heat from the sun.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Each hour of propofol anesthesia generates the greenhouse effect of driving less than 1 mile.
    Matthew J. Meyer, STAT, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Post-Climapocalyptics - since 1973 with Soylent Green, the ‘greenhouse effect’ has been useful fodder for movie dystopias.
    Solitaire Townsend, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
  • That would lead to a nonstop greenhouse effect that would create its current toxic atmosphere.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Less than one billion years ago, the climate dramatically changed due to a runaway greenhouse effect.
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 7 Jan. 2021
  • And, like a blast from the near past, the greenhouse effect is back in a big way: Greenhouse gases have been less visible in public-facing activism about climate change, but have steadily increased for decades.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2019
  • With even a small amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of early Venus, a large greenhouse effect would ensue, raising the temperature of Venus further.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021

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