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Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Increases in carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are closely linked to human activities — fossil fuel combustion, agriculture, and deforestation — and these greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, producing the observed warming trend.

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Jan 16, 2026
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is climat change primarily caused by human activity?

The preponderance of peer-reviewed research and major scientific bodies concludes that recent global warming is primarily caused by human activities—especially greenhouse gas emissions from burning fo...

Jan 22, 2026

Is climate change primarily caused by human technology?

Human activity — especially the large-scale burning of fossil fuels, land-use change and industrial emissions — is the primary cause of the rapid global warming and related climate changes observed si...

Jan 20, 2026

Principal evidence for global warming

Multiple independent lines of observation—rising global surface temperatures, increasing ocean heat content, higher greenhouse‑gas concentrations and radiative forcing, shrinking ice and rising seas, ...

Jan 16, 2026

What proportion of recent global warming is attributed to human activities versus natural factors?

The preponderance of climate science concludes that human activities are essentially responsible for the recent global warming trend: best estimates place the human contribution at roughly 100% of obs...

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