Greenhouse gas emissions

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Information on Greenhouse gases can be found at Wikipedia.

Greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of human-induced global warming. They can be reduced through:

addressing energy use,
- reducing the amount of energy used (though energy efficiency and/or simple living)
- using more renewable energy
- using fossil fuels, and practicing carbon sequestration (see carbon sequestration^WP), i.e. putting the CO2 underground.
- using fossil fuels, and practicing carbon offset (see carbon offset^WP).
- using nuclear energy - while there are enormous safety, security and environmental hazards from nuclear energy, it has been proposed by some as part of the solution to global warming.
Addressing agriculture and any other source of greenhouse gases, especially methane. (Methane is 16 times^{[verification needed]} stronger than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, in spite of having the same amount of carbon per molecule, or per unit volume.)

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