Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman’s introduction to “Making Climate Change Understandable” presents an argument for climate change that denies frequent deliberate intervention with the climate by the human population but rather supports the accidental change in climate. The authors also claim that because climate change is so difficult to understand, people do not recognize it as a grave issue. Early in the text, DiMento and Doughman clearly state the purpose of the article as follows,…
Air Pollution as a Tragedy of Commons Zachary Preston EVSP414 October 22, 2017 Air Pollution as a Tragedy of Commons The Tragedy of the Commons can be described as the depletion of shared resources by people acting rationally and independently, according to their self-interest despite being aware that abusing the common resource contrary to their long-term best interests. The Tragedy serves as a model of a myriad of current resource-based problems affecting the society. It applies to the…
Climate change is the most highly influential topic in 21st century. It is now considered as a global phenomenon, which significantly impacts on human life. From the early beginnings of humans, we had changed the natural rule in many ways: by hunting, gathering, taming the wild animals… At first, the change of nature brought many practical benefits for the development of human beings. Over the years, people has gradually affected this beautiful planet, including its climate. Humans risk…
he Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a crucible as, “a vessel of a very refractory material used for melting and calcining a substance that requires a high degree of heat.” Other interpretations of the word mean, “a severe test,” and “a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development.” The Crucible by Arthur Miller and today’s society are very much like the inside of a crucible because they have social pressures, private pressures, and…
Global warming and climate change: Threats and impacts Global warming and climate change are “the talk of the town” in this century, with its unhealthy effects already being brought to lime light by its annihilate power of damaging the society by floods in one part of the country and droughts on another. Before embarking impacts of global warming and climate change, we should know what green house effect mean. GREEN HOUSE EFFECT Green House effect is the phenomenon in which the earth's…
When studing liquid fuel combustion in gas turbine combustor, complicated principals including reactive flow, spraying, turbulent flow, multiphase flow, convective and radiative heat transfer and their interactions should be considered. In recent 40 years combustion chambers have continuously improved structurally. Present combustion chambers are generally devided to three main groups: Can type, Can Annular type, and Annular type chambers. Combustion chambers consist of components such as…
Minerals and their derived products are the foundation of many important industries. Mines and quarries can be found in almost every country all around the world. Mining industry products provide most of the needed energy, from electricity in homes and industries, to fuel in cars, machinery and tools Resources obtained from mines are also used as inputs for raw materials, consumer goods as well as for almost all services and processes provided by other industries, such as: manufacturing…
deeper they are wrapped around the Earth like a blanket by the chemical carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is put into the air by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas. According to ucsusa.org, “Global warming is caused primarily by putting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when coal, oil, and natural gas are burned to generate electricity or to run our cars. Carbon dioxide spreads around the planet like a blanket, and is one of the main gases responsible for the…
Introduction Acid rain is a rain that contains a high concentration of pollutants, chiefly sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal or oil .It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals and infrastructure, when the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, react with the water . The chemicals in acid rain can cause paint to peel, corrosion of steel structures such as bridges, and weathering of stone buildings and statues.…
Introduction: Business was started by Shell in Nigeria in 1937 as Shell darcy and was given a license of exploration .Olioberi was the first commercial oil field discovered in the Niger Delta. Prior to discovery of oil, Nigeria depended on agricultural exports to other countries. The largest fossil fuel company in Nigeria is Shell Petroleum Development Company, which operates over 6000 kms. The villages’ individuals surrounding facilities of oil production occasionally drill holes into pipelines…