The rising levels of greenhouse gases are no longer removed entirely from the troposphere by Earth's major biogeochemical cycles.  Since the dawning of the Industrial Revolution and particularly from the beginning of 1950, people have been releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels, use of chlorofluorocarbons, agriculture, and deforestation, mainly caused this. There is great concern that these gases can increase the planet's temperature to disastrous consequences.

Carbon dioxide is released into the air when any carbon compound is burned. The burning of fossil fuels causes most of the world’s air pollution. This method provides approximately 80% of the world's energy and is a source of about 75% of the current carbon dioxide emissions in the air. Carbon dioxide levels in the troposphere has been it’s highest for at least the past 130,000 years and what is important is that the levels continue to rise. The United States contributes 20% of the world's emission of carbon dioxide and is by far the largest emitter.

The Earth's capacity to remove carbon dioxide through photosynthesis is being plagued by deforestation.

The scientific community agrees on the following:
1. The greenhouse effect is present and allows most of current organisms on Earth to exist.
2. Quantities of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are rising at an enormous rate.
3. People are the cause of these rising emissions.
4. Greenhouse gases induce climate changes.
5. Warming or cooling as a result of greenhouse gas changes permits disasters for Earth's ecosystem, thus reflecting on us.
6. We do not know enough about greenhouse gases to predict climatic changes throughout the global region.

It is certain that we are able to bring on these climatic changes and have a warmer Earth by the end of this century than it was for the dinosaurs, which vanished 65 million years ago. These changes can be prevented if we take the right measure to insure a prosperous future for the Earth.

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