Increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere decreases the transparency of the atmosphere to infrared light. A. decreases the transparency of the atmosphere to visible light. B. increases the transparency of the atmosphere to visible light. C. increases the transparency of the atmosphere to infrared light.

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Donald Bradley

16 February, 08:56

Increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere decreases the transparency of the atmosphere to infrared light. A. decreases the transparency of the atmosphere to visible light. B. increases the transparency of the atmosphere to visible light. C. increases the transparency of the atmosphere to infrared light.

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Keyon Garcia · Answer 1

Decreases the transparency of the atmosphere to infrared light.

Explanation:

When a large amount of green-house gases are present in the atmosphere, the layer of these gases become opaque to infrared radiation and radiation from the sun get trapped into these gases molecules. These excited molecules radiate this energy into our own atmosphere and that why the temperature of Earth is rising due to the Green-House effect.