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- adjective That contributes to
climate change
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Examples
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Concerns about the climate-changing effects of carbon dioxide, or CO2, emissions in the United States have focused attention not just on big industrial polluters and automobile exhaust, but also on agriculture.
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The globalization of manufacturing and of Western consumption patterns has dramatically increased the release of climate-changing gases.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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But it illustrates the political and regulatory complications that large-scale climate-changing schemes would trigger.
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Increasing these operations would increase climate-changing greenhouse gases and wreck havoc on environmentally sensitive areas and local populations that depend on them.
Rocky Kistner: Gulf Protesters: Don't Send Us Your Dirty Tar Sands Oil Too Rocky Kistner 2011
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Hamilton says there is still time to act to slow down these changes by drastically reducing climate-changing carbon emissions, initiatives that he hopes the Arctic country ministers adopt when they meet next week in Greenland.
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Nuclear energy is less polluting than gas from a climate-changing perspective, but it is costly and viewed skeptically in the United States because of the dangers of disposing of radioactive waste.
Is Natural Gas Really Clean? ProPublica 2011
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Billions of cubic feet of climate-changing greenhouse gases--roughly the equivalent of the annual emissions from 35 million automobiles--seep from loose pipe valves or are vented intentionally from gas production facilities into the atmosphere each year, according to the EPA.
Is Natural Gas Really Clean? ProPublica 2011
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Billions of cubic feet of climate-changing greenhouse gases--roughly the equivalent of the annual emissions from 35 million automobiles--seep from loose pipe valves or are vented intentionally from gas production facilities into the atmosphere each year, according to the EPA.
Is Natural Gas Really Clean? ProPublica 2011
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Nuclear energy is less polluting than gas from a climate-changing perspective, but it is costly and viewed skeptically in the United States because of the dangers of disposing of radioactive waste.
Is Natural Gas Really Clean? ProPublica 2011
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Increasing these operations would increase climate-changing greenhouse gases and wreck havoc on environmentally sensitive areas and local populations that depend on them.
Rocky Kistner: Gulf Protesters: Don't Send Us Your Dirty Tar Sands Oil Too Rocky Kistner 2011
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