Sentences with «billions of tons of carbon dioxide»
The cutting down of trees causes billions of tons of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) to be released into the air. (pbs.org)
As the world's second - biggest polluter after China, a move by the U.S. to scrap the accord involving almost 200 nations would pour hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and speed up the warming trend already taking place. (bloomberg.com)
Climate change doubters used this analysis to support their belief that — despite climatological data which includes 800,000 year ice - core records of atmospheric carbon dioxide — humans have not affected the atmosphere by releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide per year. (popsci.com)