Climate Week
2021 | Climate
Conference | Climate
Change Conferences | Global
Warming Meetings
Carbon dioxide is a
greenhouse gas and traps heat in the atmosphere. Without it and other
greenhouse gases, Earth would be a frozen world. But since the start of the
Industrial Revolution about 150 years ago humans have burned so much fuel and
released so much carbon dioxide into the air that global climate has risen over
one degree Fahrenheit. The atmosphere has not held this much carbon for at
least 420,000 years according to data from ice cores. The recent increase in
amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is having a significant
impact on the warming of our planet.