mini还是全文听写模式，很多童鞋可能进来看到【专八】可能会有点胆怯，刚开始是会感觉到有点吃力哦，但这就是专八。希望大家可以耐心的认真听写O(∩_∩)O~

Today's lecture is about the Greenhouse Effect.

温馨提示：除了听到的第一个greenhouse effect是首字母大写外，其余都是小写哦！
Good morning. Today's lecture is about the Greenhouse Effect. The "greenhouse effect" often gets a bad rap because of its association with global warming, but the truth is we couldn't live without it. First, I'd like to ask you what causes the greenhouse effect? Life on earth depends on energy from the sun. About 30% of the sunlight that beams toward Earth is deflected by the outer atmosphere and scattered back into space. The rest reaches the planet's surface and is reflected upward again as a type of slow moving energy called infrared radiation. As it rises, infrared radiation is absorbed by "greenhouse gases" such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone and methane, which slows its escape from the atmosphere. Although greenhouse gases make up only about 1% of the Earth's atmosphere, they regulate our climate by trapping heat and holding it in a kind of warm-air blanket that surrounds the planet.