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3. The greenhouse effect can be explained easily if you understand the laws of blackbody radiation. A greenhouse gas blocks the transmission of infrared light. Given that the incoming light to Earth is sunlight with a characteristic temperature of 5800 K (which peaks in the visible part of the spectrum) and the outgoing light from Earth has a characteristic temperature of about 300 K (which peaks in the infrared part of the spectrum), explain how greenhouse gases cause Earth to warm up.

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Answer: They don't have a way to leave the earth atmosphere so they are pretty much just trapped and can't leave.  The gasses absorb and are re-radiated  the suns light more and more while the amount of green house gasses are trapped in the atmosphere.

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