Greenhouse gases are the gases which are responsible for causing the greenhouse effect. The main greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide.
greenhouse gas in British English
noun
any gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect
greenhouse gas in the Oil and Gas Industry
(grinhaʊs gæs) or GHG
Word forms: (plural) greenhouse gases
noun
(Extractive engineering: General)
A greenhouse gas is a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation in the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide is considered to be a greenhouse gas because it traps heat radiated into the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide is widely considered to be a greenhouse gas, which is thought to be responsible for trapping the sun's radiation in the atmosphereand causing global warming.
A greenhouse gas is a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiationin the atmosphere.
Examples of 'greenhouse gas' in a sentence
greenhouse gas
Some greenhouse gases are able to trap more heat in the atmosphere than other greenhouse gases.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Put more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and you get more warming.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
His aim is to design and colonise synthetic bacteria capable of removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This meant that the real effect of the system had been to increase the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This scheme first establishes how much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases humans can produce each year without frying the planet.
George Monbiot THE AGE OF CONSENT (2003)
To this extent it is a contributor to the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There is also no doubt that extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will warm the Earth.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Other sources of green energy such as used cooking oil offered higher greenhouse gas savings, it said.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He was the first person to discover what today is best known as the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.
Stewart Lamont WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativityand Exploration (2002)
The usual proposed methodology is to first flood the planet's atmosphere with greenhouse gases to fix the density problem.
Christianity Today (2000)
Experts said that the report offered more evidence that humans were driving global warming by burning fossil fuels that boost harmful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Greenhouse effect: the trapping of the sun's heat in the atmosphere by greenhousegases.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
All three planets, because they have greenhouse gases in their atmospheres, experience a greenhouse effect.
Radford, Tim & Leggett, Jeremy The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium (1990)
The concerns over adding greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, to the atmosphere are based on sound physics that is neither new nor speculative.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But there are ways of saving them, just as there are ways of ending the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that makes life possible.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
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British English: greenhouse gas NOUN
Greenhouse gases are the gases which are responsible for causing the greenhouse effect.