**Assertion:** Deforestation is one main factor contributing to global warming. **Reason:** Besides CO_2, two other gases, methane and CFCs, are included under greenhouse gases.

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**Assertion:** Deforestation is one main factor contributing to global warming. **Reason:** Besides , two other gases, methane and CFCs, are included under greenhouse gases.

(A)Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
(B)Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertionCorrect
(C)Assertion is true but reason is false
(D)Assertion is false but reason is true

Answer: (B)

Solution

Deforestation does contribute to global warming by removing a major carbon sink and releasing stored carbon (assertion true), and it is indeed true that methane and CFCs, besides , are included among greenhouse gases (reason true). However, the reason simply

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