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The Greenhouse Gas Effect

The greenhouse effect is a natural process by which some of the radiant heat from the Sun is captured in the lower atmosphere of the Earth, thus?

methane

(Encyclopedia) methane m?th?n, CH4, colorless, odorless, gaseous saturated hydrocarbon; the simplest alkane. It is less dense than air, melts at ?184&degC;, and boils at ?161.4&degC;. It is?

(Encyclopedia) Schwarzenegger, Arnold Alois, 1947?, Austrian-American actor, bodybuilder, and politician, b. Thal, Austria. He began competing in bodybuilding contests in his teens, and won his first?

global warming

(Encyclopedia) global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. Global?

Philip Cooney, 2005 News

Bush administration official and former oil-industry lobbyist, resigned his post as chief of staff of the Council of Environmental Quality in June, two days after the New York Times reported?

Bert Bolin Biography

climatologistDied: December 30, 2007 (Stockholm, Sweden) Best Known as: leader of UN climate panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Bert?

John Bryson

John Bryson is the environmentalist and businessman who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2011-2013. Born in New York, John Bryson graduated from Cleveland High School in Portland, Oregon in?