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115: "To balance the absorbed incoming [solar] energy, the Earth must, on average, radiate the same amount of energy back to space | A concise description of the greenhouse effect is given in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, "What is the Greenhouse Effect? "Nature's green revolution: the remarkable evolutionary rise of C 4 plants" |
Schneider, in Geosphere-biosphere Interactions and Climate, Lennart O.
"On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground" PDF | "The Elusive Absolute Surface Air Temperature SAT " |
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Zhang, Yi Ge; Pagani, Mark; Liu, Zhonghui; Bohaty, Steven M | Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology |
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Because the Earth is much colder than the Sun, it radiates at much longer wavelengths, primarily in the infrared part of the spectrum see Figure 1.
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