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fossil fuel combustion– has increased carbon dioxide concentrations from °280 to 355 mL/L since 1800; the increase is unique, at least in the past 160 000 yr, and several lines of evidence demonstrate unequivocally that it is human—causedRead More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2307/1941591 fossil fuel combustion– has increased carbon dioxide concentrations from °280 to 355 mL/L since 1800; the increase is unique, at least in the past 160 000 yr, and several lines of evidence demonstrate unequivocally that it is human—causedRead More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2307/1941591 fossil fuel combustion– has increased carbon dioxide concentrations from °280 to 355 mL/L since 1800; the increase is unique, at least in the past 160 000 yr, and several lines of evidence demonstrate unequivocally that it is human—causedRead More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2307/1941591 fossil fuel combustion– has increased carbon dioxide concentrations from °280 to 355 mL/L since 1800; the increase is unique, at least in the past 160 000 yr, and several lines of evidence demonstrate unequivocally that it is human—causedRead More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2307/1941591 to 355 mL/L since 1800; the increase is unique, at least in the past 160 000 yr, and several lines of evidence demonstrate unequivocally that it is human—caused. Read More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2307/1941591 past 160 000 yr, and several lines Read More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2307/1941591

Lorena Salazar
Hoyt 7
4 November 2011
Global Warming and our Earths Systems

Illustration 1: Marine Bio. The Greenhouse Effect. 1990. Photograph.
Our Earths population is getting bigger and bigger everyday. More people being added means more CO2 is being added and that is a huge pollutant to our Earth. Every year three billion metric tons of CO2 are added to the atmosphere every year (“Global Climate Change” ). Pollution has increased atmospheric

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