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Explain how does greenhouse effect cause global warming.

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Greenhouse effect may be defined as the heatnig up of the earth surface due to trapping of infrared radiations reflected by earth's surface by `CO_(2)` layer in the atmosphere". The heating up of earth through the greenhouse effect is called global warming.
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