Environment-5: 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide!

In California alone, 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere every year!

Source: Reader’s Digest, June 2008

For more details and related info:

Greenhouse Gas: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_emission>

Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide :

http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm

Carbon dioxide: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide>

Carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_the_Earth%27s_atmosphere>

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_the_Study_of_Carbon_Dioxide_and_Global_Change

CO2 Science: <http://www.co2science.org/>

Grateful thanks to the Reader’s Digest, Wikipedia, Petition Project and CO2 Science.org.