QUESTION

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Environment & Ecology

Prelims 2012

The increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the air is slowly raising the temperature of the atmosphere because it absorbs -

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Explanation

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb and re-emit infrared radiation (heat) emitted by the Earth's surface. This process traps heat in the atmosphere, leading to the greenhouse effect and contributing to the warming of the Earth's surface temperature.

Therefore, increasing levels of carbon dioxide result in the absorption of the infrared part of solar radiation, leading to the gradual warming of the atmosphere.

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