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Carbon dioxide. Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have been removing carbon from deep in the ground and combusting it - which provides energy we rely on but also introduces carbon dioxide gas (CO2) into the atmosphere that was never there before.

The more coal and petroleum we remove from the deep earth and burn, the more CO2 is added to the atmosphere causing global warming.

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