“This figure shows worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and several fluorinated gases from 1990 to 2010. For consistency, emissions are expressed in million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. These totals include emissions and sinks due to land-use change and forestry.” – United States Environmental Protection Agency

“This figure shows concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from hundreds of thousands of years ago through 2013, measured in parts per million (ppm). The data come from a variety of historical ice core studies and recent air monitoring sites around the world. Each line represents a different data source.” - United States Environmental Protection Agency

The World Bank News

What do Kampala and Rio de Janeiro have in common? At first sight, the capital of landlocked Uganda and the megacity on the Brazilian coast may appear very different, but they share more than meets the eye. 

California has adopted a cap and trade approach to taxing carbon emissions, which sets an upper limit on allowable levels of carbon and permits the purchase of carbon credits to offset emissions.

Cabon gases are exchanged in all surfaces of the Earth

The main source of pollution comes from burning fossil fuels for our energy supply

 Despite the CO2 growth, the rate of CO2 for the last 10 years seem to been stable and not increasing as bad as in the 60's and 70's

Massive increase of carbon emissions for the last 50 years. North America as number one polluter

Our atmosphere traps some of solar radiation as a greenhouse, which increases the planet's temperature

Seth Borenstein

Arctic monitoring stations show carbon dioxide levels are now above 400 parts per million. Carbon dioxide is the chief climate-change gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years.