greenhouse effect

English

Etymology

First used in this sense by Swedish meteorologist Nils Gustaf Ekholm in 1901.^[1]

Noun

greenhouse effect (plural greenhouse effects)

2. The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.
   • 1988 June 24, James E. Hansen, quotee, “Quotation of the Day”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, page A2:

     It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.

   • 1989 May 9, George H. W. Bush, quotee, “The White House and the Greenhouse”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, page A30:

     This contrasts strangely with Mr. Bush's campaign oratory last summer. “Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the ‘White House effect’; as President, I intend to do something about it,” he said in Michigan on Aug. 31. […] Mr. Bush has not acted.

   • 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting James E. Hansen, chapter 4, in Merchants of Doubt:

     In August 1988, Hansen had given dramatic testimony to Congress asserting that “the scientific evidence for the greenhouse effect is overwhelming.” “The greenhouse effect is real, it is coming soon, and it will have major effects on all peoples.”

Derived terms

• anti-greenhouse effect

Translations

process by which a planet is warmed by its atmosphere

Afrikaans: kweekhuiseffek (af) Arabic: اَلاِحْتِبَاس اَلْحَرَارِيّ m (al-iḥtibās al-ḥarāriyy) Asturian: efeutu ivernaderu m Basque: berotegi-efektu Belarusian: парніко́вы эфе́кт m (parnikóvy efjékt) Bulgarian: парников ефект m (parnikov efekt) Catalan: efecte hivernacle (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 溫室效應／温室效应 (wan1 sat1 haau6 jing3) Mandarin: 溫室效應／温室效应 (zh) (wēnshì xiàoyìng) Czech: skleníkový efekt m Danish: drivhuseffekt c Dutch: broeikaseffect (nl) n Estonian: kasvuhooneefekt Finnish: kasvihuoneilmiö (fi) French: effet de serre (fr) m Galician: efecto invernadoiro (gl) m Georgian: სათბურის ეფექტი (satburis epekṭi) German: Treibhauseffekt (de) m Greek: φαινόμενο του θερμοκηπίου (el) n (fainómeno tou thermokipíou) Hebrew: אֵפֵקְט הַחֲמָמָה (he) (efékt ha-khamamá) Hungarian: üvegházhatás (hu) Icelandic: gróðurhúsaáhrif n pl Indonesian: efek rumah kaca Italian: effetto serra (it) m Japanese: 温室効果 (ja) (おんしつこうか, onshitsu-kōka) Kazakh: көшетхана әсері (köşetxana äserı) Korean: 온실효과(溫室效果) (ko) (onsilhyogwa) Latvian: siltumnīcas efekts m Luxembourgish: Zäreneffekt m Malayalam: ഹരിതഗൃഹപ്രഭാവം (haritagr̥haprabhāvaṁ) Maori: pānga kati kōtuhi Norwegian: Bokmål: drivhuseffekt m Nynorsk: drivhuseffekt m Persian: اثر گلخانه‌ای Polish: efekt cieplarniany (pl) m Portuguese: efeito de estufa m Romanian: efect de seră n Russian: парнико́вый эффе́кт (ru) m (parnikóvyj effékt) Scottish Gaelic: buaidh an taigh-ghlainne f Slovak: skleníkový efekt Spanish: efecto invernadero (es) m Swedish: växthuseffekt (sv) c Tamil: பைங்குடில் விளைவு (paiṅkuṭil viḷaivu) Thai: ภาวะเรือนกระจก, ปรากฏการณ์เรือนกระจก Turkish: sera etkisi Ukrainian: парнико́вий ефе́кт m (parnykóvyj efékt) Urdu: گرم خانہ اثر (garm-xāna asar) Vietnamese: hiệu ứng nhà kính (vi), hiệu ứng nhà kiếng Welsh: effaith tŷ gwydr f

See also

• greenhouse gas
• global warming

References

• “greenhouse effect”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

1. Nils Gustaf Ekholm (1901) “On the Variations of the Climate of the Geological and Historical Past and their Causes”, in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society‎, volume XXVII, number 117, page 19: “Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easy, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth's surface.”

Further reading

• greenhouse effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia