Website review: 2006: The year in environment - ear...
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burkinaboy rated 21 months ago- Despite a growing global awareness of the threat we face from climate change, humans have continued to have a massive effect on the atmosphere during 2006. In fact, NASA reported evidence in September that global temperatures are very nearly the warmest they have been for a million years.
As poorer countries like China, India and Brazil develop at an increasingly rapid rate, greenhouse gas emissions were found to be rising faster than ever in 2006, mirrored in the March discovery that carbon dioxide is accumulating faster than ever in the atmosphere. China's reliance on burning coal may be fuelling an economic boom, but the pollution is suffocating its people.
The accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere has sparked fears that nature's ability to absorb some of our emissions is waning. And on top of this, scientists have realised that plants have been belching or hiccupping out methane without anybody noticing. The upper estimates suggest that plants could be emitting up to 30% of global methane, a potent greenhouse gas, potentially knocking existing climate models out of kilter.- Despite a growing global awareness of the threat we face from climate change, humans have continued to have a massive effect on the atmosphere during 2006. In fact, NASA reported evidence in September that global temperatures are very nearly the warmest they have been for a million years.
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