Multiple Choice
Greenhouse gases:
A) keep the earth at a comfortable temperature.
B) did not exist in significant concentrations until the coming of the Industrial Age.
C) are good absorbers of shortwave radiation.
D) cause the earth to have much wider swings in daily temperature ranges than if the gases were not present.
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