Is our planet heating up?
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Is our planet heating up? We are polluting the atmosphere and with an increasingly wide range of polluting substances and these are due to the fact that there are now so many people and their human activities are altering the chemical compositing of the atmosphere through the buildup of gases. By the end of this article, you will start to wonder about what this is doing to our world. What is global warming? Global warming takes place because human activities are pumping vast amounts of gases. These are Carbon dioxide - this gas is unconfined to the atmosphere when solid fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal, and wood products are burned Methane - this gas is given out during the production and transfer of fossil fuels. It also results in the decomposition of organic wastes in solid waste landfills and the raising of livestock. Nitrous acid - this is released during...

