Europe's burning!

Whilst the current 2019 European heat-wave is not down to global-warming, it is bringing more heat into our atmosphere, much of which won't actually leave again. As many of you probably already know, this is called the 'greenhouse effect' where lots of polluting gases (known as greenhouse gases) such as:

• Water vapour (H2O)
• Carbon dioxide (CO2)
• Methane (CH4)
• Nitrous oxide (N2O)
• Ozone (O3)
• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
• Hydrofluorocarbons (including HCFCs and HFCs)

make a layer (much like the ozone layer) above the planet which allows the solar radiation of the sun in, but doesn't actually let much out. Therefore, acting as the glass in a greenhouse and heating up the Earth.