# Greenhouse Gas Science

Describe the electromagnetic spectrum and distinguish between short-wave solar radiation and long-wave infrared radiation emitted by Earth; explain how greenhouse gas molecules (CO2, CH4, N2O, H2O) absorb and re-emit infrared through molecular vibration while O2 and N2 do not; distinguish the natural greenhouse effect (which makes Earth habitable) from the enhanced greenhouse effect driven by human emissions; evaluate the relative potency of different greenhouse gases

Builds on: Global Wind Patterns (hard, https://ai.page/c/global-wind-patterns/en.md), Sun-Driven Weather Systems (hard, https://ai.page/c/sun-driven-weather-systems/en.md)

Concept id: greenhouse-gas-science. Subject: science. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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