{"id":23728,"date":"2024-01-14T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=23728"},"modified":"2024-01-14T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T07:34:14","slug":"carbon-dioxide-challenge-for-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/01\/14\/carbon-dioxide-challenge-for-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Dioxide: The Global Warming Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span>FROM<\/span><\/strong><span> In the eighteenth century, human activity was the main driver of global warming, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels (non-renewable energy sources) such as coal, natural gas, oil, etc.\u00a0<\/span><span>Research by the United Nations (UN) shows that burning fuel creates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which act like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun&#039;s heat and raising the temperature. And the main greenhouse gases that cause this global warming include, among others, carbon dioxide (CO\u00a0<\/span><sub><span>2<\/span><\/sub><span>\u00a0) and methane (CH\u00a0<\/span><sub><span>4 ). <\/span><\/sub><span>However, the above gases came from using gasoline to power a car or coal to heat a building. Land clearing and clearing of the world&#039;s forests (deforestation) can also release carbon dioxide. <\/span><span>As the largest contributor to global warming, fossil fuels account for more than seventy-five percent (75 %) of greenhouse gas emissions and nearly ninety percent (90 %) of all carbon dioxide emissions, meaning the world is warming faster than ever before. point in history and higher temperature over time alters weather patterns and disrupts nature&#039;s usual balance. <\/span><span>Think of a problem facing the world today that poses a threat to human beings and other life forms on Earth; &quot;\u00a0<\/span><em><span>We simply must do everything we can to slow down global warming before it&#039;s too late\u2026<\/span><\/em><span> &quot;, said former American politician Arnold Schwarzenegger. (<em>Chidozie Christian<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINCE the eighteenth century, human activity has been the main driver of global warming, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels (a non-renewable energy source) such as coal, natural gas, oil, etc. Research by the United Nations (UN) shows that burning fuels creates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that act like a blanket around the Earth, trapping the sun&#039;s heat and increasing temperatures. And among the main [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}