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...environmental President, is making trees a kind of fetish of his Administration. In his budget submitted last week, Bush allotted $175 million to plant 1 billion trees this year. By the year 2000 there should be 10 billion new trees that eventually should absorb 13 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, or 5% of the nation's annual emissions...
...TERM "greenhouse effect" is used to represent the accumulation of trace gases in the atmosphere. These gases prevent the release of the sun's radiation back into space and trap the heat in the earth's atmosphere, leading to global warming. Without greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide, our planet would reach a much lower average temperature and would be unable to support life as we know...
...with the dramatic increase in recent years in the release of trace gases, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), methane, nitrogen oxides and especially carbon dioxide, from industrial sources, the atmosphere is undergoing strains possibly never before experienced in its history...
...border towns residents complain of Trabi traffic jams every weekend as East Germans drive in for shopping. A study by Berlin's Technical University has shown that Trabants spew roughly nine times as many hydrocarbons and five times as much carbon monoxide as most other cars in Western Europe. Though some West Germans refer to the Trabi's distinctive mix of gas and oil smoke as "the smell of freedom," others are more direct. They call the Trabi the "little stinker...
...that were unfolding around the world. The earth's population, now 5.2 billion, rose in 1989 an estimated 87.5 million, maintaining a growth rate that could double the number of human beings by the year 2025. Deforestation and burning of fossil fuels spewed at least 19 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, aggravating the global warming process that could cause the average worldwide temperature to rise as much as 4.5 degrees C (8 degrees F) within the next 60 years. Another 11.3 million hectares (28 million acres) of tropical forest were destroyed. The ozone hole over Antarctica remained...