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“Indiscriminate human activities have strengthened the greenhouse effect resulting in Global Warming.” Give the relative contribution of various Green House Gases in the form of a pie chart and explain the fate of the energy of sunlight reaching the earth’* surface contributing towards Global Warming.

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Clouds and gases reflect one-fourth of incoming solar radiation/absorb some of it/but almost half of incoming solar radiation falls on Earth’ surface heating it/while a small is reflected backs/Earth’ surface re-emits heat in the form of infra red radiation/but part of this does not escape into space as atmospheric gases absorb a major fraction of it.

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