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    Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants collect in

    the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the
    earth’s surface. Normally this radiation would escape into space, but these
    pollutants, which can last for years to centuries in the atmosphere, trap the heat
    and cause the planet to get hotter. These heat-trapping pollutants—specifically
    carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, and synthetic fluorinated
    gases—are known as greenhouse gases, and their impact is called the greenhouse
    effect.

    Though natural cycles and fluctuations have caused the earth’s climate to change
    several times over the last 800,000 years, our current era of global warming is
    directly attributable to human activity—specifically to our burning of fossil fuels
    such as coal, oil, gasoline, and natural gas, which results in the greenhouse
    effect. In the United States, the largest source of greenhouse gases is
    transportation (29 percent), followed closely by electricity production (28
    percent) and industrial activity (22 percent).

    The good news is that countries around the globe have formally committed—as part of
    the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement—to lower their emissions by setting new standards
    and crafting new policies to meet or even exceed those standards

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