Carbon Dioxide: A Greenhouse Gas

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Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. This means it traps heat from the sun in the atmosphere. Most of the time this is beneficial to us, because without greenhouse gases to trap heat, the planet would be a lot colder. …

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Natural Greenhouse Gas emissions and -sinks

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To what extent are humans responsible for Global Warming? Even though emissions of carbon dioxide have greatly increased since the industrial revolution, there is evidence that this gas is naturally released into the atmosphere by volcanic eruptions. It’s therefore possible …

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