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    world have different preferences on what climate change is and if it’s affecting the world or not. Many people ask, what is climate change? Climate changing is the burning of fossil fuels and the uses of greenhouse gases that affect the world's atmosphere. Climate change causes temperatures around the world to keep rising and many of the predictions about climate change seem to be becoming higher than predicted. Like others around the world, I believe that climate change is real and this it is a…

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    For a while now, there has been a debate on whether or not CO2 levels among other pollutions, are causing a global warming effect. There are several facts addressing global warming and climate change as we know it. Global warming could have some positive effects but in the end consist of a mostly negative outcome. The reality is that we need to address what is currently causing the issue and do what we can to change it before it is too late. But what is it that really caused this issue, is it…

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    Consider the following questions on the carbon cycle: [2 pts] Assume that the atmospheric reservoir of CO2 contains 830 Gt of carbon, and the rate at which CO2 is removed from the atmosphere is 180 Gt of carbon per year. What is the residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere? (Give units) The residence time of CO2 in this atmospheric reservoir is 4.61 years. [6 pts] Using the concepts we’ve discussed in class, explain two temporal patterns that you observe in the figure below and the processes…

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    Effects of global warming Introduction Global warming is an ongoing increase in the whole temperature of the earth's atmosphere normally recognized to the greenhouse result caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. In line for global warming, the normal temperature of the Earth’s surface is progressively increasing. While some argument still occurs over the primary causes of global warming, the Natural Resources Defense Council places the…

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    past 650,000 years, atmospheric concentrations are between 180-300 ppm. In the years immediately prior to the Industrial Revolution, there were about 280 ppm. Since then, the number has been rising steadily, and is closing in on 400 ppm in our atmosphere. Because carbon dioxide is a known greenhouse gas, it can be inferred that it is a leading cause to…

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    and gas emitted by livestock; and chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, which were used in refrigerants and aerosol propellants until they were banned for their negative effects on the ozone layer. Generally any substance that people introduce into the atmosphere that has damaging effects on living things and the environment in considered air pollution (Air Pollution Facts n.d.). Along…

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    Uranus: Uranus was discovered in 1781 by a British Astronomer named William Herschel, using a 6 inch telescope. At first he thought that it might be a nebulous star or even a comet, but after continued observation, he realized that it appeared to be a disk in the sky that moved relative to the stars. The movement was far too slow to be a comet and soon enough he realized that he had discovered the 7th planet at the time. At first, he wanted to name it Georgium Sidus which translates to…

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    picture of a hurricane. The hurricane above the factory symbolizes the affect pollution has on the earth’s weather. This pollution is causing deadly natural disasters to occur. Our over use of a factory and the substance that it creates causes the atmosphere to act abnormal, generating more natural disasters. In the second poster, the penguins walking on sand symbolizes climate change. The ice glaciers, that were once the home of the animals, are melting. This is pushing the penguins, and other…

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    earth has risen over the past one decade. Many man-made and natural processes cause the global warming that continues to affect our environment. Greenhouse gases are the main cause of global warming. Human beings have raised carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with their activities, such as deforestation, and burning fossil fuels. The other major causes of global warming is population growth, pollution, and industrialization. These changes are resulting rise in sea level, melting glaciers, damage…

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    which we release into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels’ oil, coal, and natural gas to generate electricity, power our vehicles and heat our homes. Human activities produce greenhouse gases and these gases are the key causes of climate change. The greenhouse effect works like this: Energy arrives from the sun in the form of visible light and ultraviolet radiation. The Earth then emits some of this energy as infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorbs some of this heat,…

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