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1. Certainly industry has contributed to the Greenhouse effect. Would the Earth be habitable if the greenhouse effect was not taking place?

2. How does the burning of fossil fuels add to the greenhouse effect?

3. How can humans maintain this industrialized society and decrease the number of greenhouse gasses being emitted?

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1. No- the earth would not be habitable without the greenhouse effect. Without the greenhouse effect the earth's temperature would be around 0 degrees F (-18 degrees C). In fact the earth's average temperature is approximately 60 degrees F (16 degrees C)- and has allowed life to develop. Mars- with little greenhouse effect has a mean surface temperature of -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C)

This natural greenhouse effect arises because of the radiation of some ...

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