The cutting down of trees will also have the same effect....
Global Warming: Climate Change
We should take action on climate change now because it is predicted that the climate will increase by 4-6 degrees by 2100. Right now the climate is increased by 1 degree Celsius warmer since 1880. In the past extreme heat and drought has caused thousands of deaths. For example in Chicago 1995, 795 people died in a heat wave and in Europe 2003, 30,000 people died from another heat wave. In Northwest China desertification of farming lands causes a loss of 1000 miles annually. The Amazon forests play an important role in absorbing CO2 to regulate its amount in the atmosphere. The trees in the Amazon forest had begun to die due to droughts, this will cause in more carbon being emitted to the atmosphere. The cutting down of trees will also have the same effect. Because decaying trees do not only absorb carbon, but they also emit it as they die. Carbon pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels is also another leading factor to as why the CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased.