Imagine waking up one day in the middle of winter and the temperature rose from the normal 30 degrees to an astounding heat wave of 60 degrees. Although this is highly uncommon in the world today, with an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere this could become our new reality. For years now there have been constant headlines of the new problems within the world due to global warming. These headlines range anywhere from a glacier melting to the rise in sea levels throughout the earth. These problems as well as many more throughout our world are all caused by global warming. The global warnings definition is as follows, an increase in the earth 's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may
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From a YouTube video that I had watched created by National Geographic titled, Saving Planet Earth & Stop Climate Change, I learned that the manure from livestock releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as soon as it hits the ground. One chicken farmer in West Virginia, Josh Fri, figured out a way to transform this problem into a solution. Fri made a machine that takes the manure from chickens on his farm and cooks the manure slowly in a gasifier which removes the greenhouse gases and turns the manure into charcoal called biochar. Biochar locks the greenhouse gases away and keeps the greenhouse gases from within the manure out of the atmosphere for thousands of years to come. In addition to keeping the gases out of the atmosphere, the machine produces hot gas, which Fri uses to heat up his house. This way of heating his house helps the environment by not releasing the carbon dioxide usually released from the gas used in regular heaters into the atmosphere. Josh Fri’s machine will in time help global warming by eliminating one of the causes of the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but it will not emit the release of greenhouse gases causes by cars and power
From a YouTube video that I had watched created by National Geographic titled, Saving Planet Earth & Stop Climate Change, I learned that the manure from livestock releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as soon as it hits the ground. One chicken farmer in West Virginia, Josh Fri, figured out a way to transform this problem into a solution. Fri made a machine that takes the manure from chickens on his farm and cooks the manure slowly in a gasifier which removes the greenhouse gases and turns the manure into charcoal called biochar. Biochar locks the greenhouse gases away and keeps the greenhouse gases from within the manure out of the atmosphere for thousands of years to come. In addition to keeping the gases out of the atmosphere, the machine produces hot gas, which Fri uses to heat up his house. This way of heating his house helps the environment by not releasing the carbon dioxide usually released from the gas used in regular heaters into the atmosphere. Josh Fri’s machine will in time help global warming by eliminating one of the causes of the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but it will not emit the release of greenhouse gases causes by cars and power