| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas because it absorbs infrared radiation causing C=O bonds in the molecule to stretch and bend.Each year fossil fuel combustion worldwide puts~6.2 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere as CO2.About 45% is removed from the atmosphere via natural processes--photosynthesis, and the rest by dissolving into rainwater and oceans to form hydrogen carbonates and
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