The hopeful news about CO2 emissions and climate change

Grist
By Phil PlaitDec 8, 2015, 1:08 pm41 pts
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Our planet is heating up. The cause is in some ways simple: Humans add a lot of carbon dioxide to the air every year, about 40 billion tons of it. CO2 is a greenhouse gas: It lets sunlight through…

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