As the years slip by, it is easy to ignore climate changes and consider that they are simply fluctuations of a normal environment. You might think we should just put up with it. That's what we're doing. However, the ultimate outcome from that lack of action will come back to haunt us.

No matter how many public figures rail against the idea that we are experiencing an increase in atmospheric temperatures caused by the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, their rhetoric doesn't change the facts. Over 90 percent of the scientific community agree that climate change will have a negative impact on the global community.

According to myclimate.org, carbon dioxide is a colorless and odorless gas that is a natural component of the air and part of the global carbon cycle. It plays an important role in photosynthesis, in which plants convert CO2 into oxygen. At the same time, CO2 is a significant greenhouse gas that........

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