Many people don't know the meaning of CO2 and how much this gas is important to us and to our mother planet earth. CO2 is an abbreviation of Carbon Dioxide gas which has a specific concentration in the earth’s atmosphere of approximately 0.038%. However, this gas has many uses where it is used to extinguish fires and in many machines like coal burning plants which is energy conversion center that burn fossil fuels to produce electricity. These machines are the main source of CO2 in the atmosphere. However, it should be known that CO2 is also produced by car engines when fuel is burned. As CO2 is necessary to continue living on earth, it is also dangerous and can cause severe damage if its level increased a lot and this increase could be caused by human activities and machines. Nevertheless, CO2 level can be increase by natural sources like plants, animals and oceans but the main source is the fossil fuels. This chart here is showing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere and you can see that it was increasing rapidly in the five years.
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