It all had to do with greenhouse gasses, and our apparent affinity to release them into the atmosphere. However, global warming had its skeptics, people who called the measures taken to contain it futile, but recent developments show they were wrong. For three years in a row, the emissions of greenhouse gasses appear to have frozen.
This good news comes from the Global Carbon Project, an initiative that measures how much CO2 is emitted by human activity into the atmosphere, and how much is absorbed by the environment. Subtracting the latter from the former gives us the quantity of CO2 that remains trapped in the atmosphere where it accentuates the greenhouse effect.
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