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Earth Explorer
02-01-1995
Climate Change: How Do We Know?
The 1980s were the hottest decade on record. The heat sparked forest fires in the United States and elsewhere. High temperatures may have caused the severe droughts that occurred in Africa and North America during that decade. Pointing to the 1980s, some people claim that a period of global warming has begun.
But climate is defined as an area's weather patterns over many years. Scientists caution against drawing conclusions from only a decade's worth of unusually high global temperatures. It could take many years before scientists can confirm that the climate is indeed changing in one direction or the other--and, if it is, ...
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'02 drought increased greenhouse gas levels Study: Plants grew poorly,...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
November 27, 2007 ;
Scanlon, Bill;
539 words
......ability to absorb carbon dioxide, said the study released...scientists say increased carbon dioxide is the main reason...released 1.9 billion metric tons of carbon into the...only 330 million metric tons of carbon, down...in oxygen and emit carbon ...
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'02 drought increased greenhouse gas levels ; Study: Plants grew poorly,...
Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current);
November 27, 2007 ;
Bill Scanlon;
525 words
......ability to absorb carbon dioxide, said the study released...scientists say increased carbon dioxide is the main reason...released 1.9 billion metric tons of carbon into the...only 330 million metric tons of carbon, down...in oxygen and emit carbon ...
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Illinois air quality gains // Carbon dioxide down 11% since '66
Chicago Sun-Times;
November 21, 1988 ;
566 words
......called reducing carbon dioxide emissions "a...had 55 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from...from 72 million metric tons in 1976 and 11...61.9 million metric tons of the gas in...Wednesday, said carbon dioxide emissions ...
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Impact of Rising Carbon Dioxide Found in World Oceans
Sea Technology;
August 1, 2004 ;
Anonymous;
445 words
......ocean storage of carbon dioxide derived from...anthropogenic carbon dioxide, based on a decade-lo...anthropogenic carbon dioxide taken up over...percent of the carbon dioxide we have released...anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere...about 118 ...
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GM emits most carbon dioxide.
Detroit Free Press (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);
July 30, 2002 ;
534 words
......per-vehicle average carbon dioxide emissions...7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2000, while...6 million metric tons. Meanwhile...302 million metric tons a year, which...to reduce carbon dioxide emissions...
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GM Vehicles Emit Most Carbon Dioxide.
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);
July 31, 2002 ;
531 words
......per-vehicle average carbon dioxide emissions...7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2000, while...6 million metric tons. Meanwhile...302 million metric tons a year, which...to reduce carbon dioxide emissions...
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Sea change: carbon dioxide imperils marine ecosystems.(This Week)
Science News;
July 17, 2004 ;
Perkins, S.;
568 words
......suggest that much carbon dioxide ended up in the...about 433 billion metric tons of industrial carbon dioxide. The threat to...that forms when carbon dioxide dissolves in...concentration of carbon dioxide in the jar, carbonate...
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Company turns waste into profit. (Business Briefs).(Royal Dutch Shell to...
Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World;
January 1, 2002 ;
155 words
......plans to sell some carbon dioxide emissions from its...Liquide, which processes carbon dioxide for use in carbonated...Shell plant's excess carbon dioxide emissions, which previously...scientists consider carbon dioxide to be the major cause...62,000 tons (55,800 ...
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U.S. FIRES RELEASE ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
October 31, 2007 ;
700 words
......states can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...Wiedinmyer, that estimates carbon dioxide emissions based on...estimates of the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by different...emitted 7.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide...about 290 ...
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Finland's carbon dioxide emissions peak at 70 million tons in 2003 as it...
AP Worldstream;
February 16, 2004 ;
MATTI HUUHTANEN, Associated Press Writer;
461 words
......Finland Finnish carbon dioxide emissions grew...record 70 million metric tons (77 million short...warming. "The carbon dioxide-free electricity...or 77 million metric tons (85 million short...short tons) of carbon dioxide. Last year, Finland...2002, ...
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GM emits most carbon dioxide.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
July 30, 2002 ;
Bodipo-Memba, Alejandro;
562 words
......per-vehicle average carbon dioxide emissions...7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2000, while...6 million metric tons. Meanwhile...302 million metric tons a year, which...to reduce carbon dioxide emissions...
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10 states faulted on carbon dioxide
Chicago Sun-Times;
July 27, 1990 ;
Charles Campbell;
415 words
......half the poisonous carbon dioxide spewed into the...reducing their carbon dioxide emissions," said...in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases...Texas leading in carbon dioxide emissions with 553 million metric tons, well ahead of...alone put out more ...
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PARK EMITS MORE CARBON DIOXIDE THAN TYPICAL INDUSTRIAL PLANT
The Columbian;
December 23, 1997 ;
AP;
462 words
......of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide each year more...the world tallies its carbon dioxide emissions, according...Volcano area. Much of the carbon dioxide appeared to escape along...millions of tons of carbon dioxide. Last week they presented...produces about ...
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Ohio's emissions rank fourth in U.S.: Carbon dioxide releases up 7% from...
Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH);
April 13, 2007 ;
411 words
......Apr. 13--Emissions of carbon dioxide, a gas key to global...Pennsylvania, with 261.8 million metric tons of total carbon dioxide releases in 2004, according...total was 244.9 million metric tons. In 2004, Ohio was No...plants, with 121.5 million metric ...
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Carbon dioxide emissions drop in 2006 for first time since 1995
Capital (Annapolis);
May 24, 2007 ;
253 words
......followed by a cool summer caused U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to decline last year...in the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide released in 2006 from energy-related...vehicles produced 5,877 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2006 compared to 5,955 million ...
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