What makes greenhouse gases?
Things like:
- Driving cars, trucks, ships, planes - in fact anything that uses oil-based fuels to move. This is because oil is a fossil fuel. It’s made from the fossilised remains of animals and plants that lived millions of years ago. Whenever we burn a fossil fuel, we release a greenhouse gas called carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
- Burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas to make electricity for our homes and schools, because they all release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
- Farming (cows and sheep burp, fart and poop methane, which is a powerful greenhouse gas!).
- Cutting down lots of trees (because trees naturally absorb carbon dioxide).
- Burning trees - because when they burn, they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
- Factories use energy, which is often made by burning fossil fuels.
These things push down on one side of the see-saw, making the Earth warmer. This causes problems like melting ice, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather.
On the other side of the see-saw, we have things that take away greenhouse gases from the air:
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