Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Whats All the Hue and Cry About?
9 November, 2009 Carbon dioxide emissions, global warming, climate change. These words seem to be on everybody’s lips. In 2006, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” gave the public debate on global warming a much needed boost, though environmental organizations had started sounding the alarm long before. Today, we all know that our energy consumption comes at a price, but what exactly are carbon dioxide emissions and why is it so important we reduce them sooner rather than later? The fossil fuels we burn for energy production and transport are a major source of CO2 or carbon dioxide emissions. Plants and trees can soak up CO2 from the atmosphere and recycle it into precious oxygen. However, we humans are producing so much carbon dioxide, there are simply not enough trees on the planet to absorb all the CO2 we emit into the atmosphere. What’s more, we’re making it worse by cutting down tropical forests. Top polluter A Dutch study shows that China has overtaken the US as the world’s top pol
