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After years of debate, consensus among most of the world's scientists holds that we are warming the planet. Unless we take steps now to curb global warming, our way of life, our planet, and our children are all in grave danger. There is hope. Each us can make simple decisions that will reduce global warming pollution.The choices we make and the products we buy test our commitment to maintain a healthy planet. When we burn fossil fuels—such as oil, coal, and natural gas—to run our cars and light our homes, we pump carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air. This thickens the heat-trapping blanket that surrounds the planet, causing global warming. Choosing modern technology can reduce our use of fossil fuels and help protect the planet.
The Hard Facts of Global WarmingThe science behind global warming is conclusive and well-documented. For over fifty years, scientists have been measuring the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii. They have found that the concentration of CO2 has been increasing by about one part per million every year - an increase that is caused by the burning of unprecedented amounts of fossil fuels over the last two hundred years of industrialization. Scientists have also been studying ice to tell us about our planet's climate history. Data taken from deep core drilling on the ice sheets near the north and south poles show that historically, higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have lead to global warming. We are already seeing this trend of warming today - the ten hottest years on record have all occurred within the last fifteen years.
We call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. As the Earth spins each day, the new heat swirls with it, picking up moisture over the oceans, rising here, settling there. It's changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon.
What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope with the changes we've already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the face of the Earth as we know it—coasts, forests, farms and snow-capped mountains—hangs in the balance.