Global warming is dependent on the incoming rate of solar radiation as against the absorption of heat inside the earth. . true or false
The atmosphere of Earth is effectively transparent to radiation from the solar system. "Incoming solar radiation" reaches the surface of the Earth directly and is absorbed.
The incoming solar radiation, which is of shorter wavelength, easily penetrates Earth's atmosphere and reaches its surface, where a part of it gets absorbed by Earth's surface and the remaining get reflected into the atmosphere. This reflected heat has longer wavelength radiations, which cannot penetrate through the atmosphere to be emitted into space. So, these radiations are absorbed by the "greenhouse gases" (water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and ozone) present in the atmosphere, as a result of which the temperature of the Earth rises. This "heating effect" caused by the atmospheric greenhouse gases is called the greenhouse effect.
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