Atmosphere

reason for this is due to the fact that the colder water of the Antarctic flows down towards the tropics and mixes with the warmer water which results in the two different temperatures mixing and cooling down not only the surface water but also that atmosphere. Sadly though even though this great system is put into place naturally to cool down the earth and keep it in homeostasis this system is being threatened by our human activity on the planet (“Captain Cousteau” 17). During the roaring…

researchers have sampled water and different fishes to examine the concentrations of inorganic mercury. It has been studied that Mercury gets into the environment multiple ways. “Globally, approximately 6600 metric tons of Hg are emitted to the atmosphere annually, with 33% go to 36% attributed to direct anthropogenic emissions (3).” There are two ways that mercury can be deposited into the environment, such as wet deposition (associated with rain and snow) and dry deposition (cloud and fog…

It started out unexpectedly. The storm racing across the battlefield. The crash of thunder filled the atmosphere with rage. Fog spurred over the plains. The landscape ahead invisible to the naked eye. The sky was engulfed with hopes and prayers of the soldiers that inhabited the wasteland below. Rain fell like pellets soaking everything it could reach. My clothes hung limply off my body, dripping with the water that was flowing from the grey stained sky. The mud that was once hard turned into…

nitrous oxide (citation). Carbon dioxide is the most important, as it accounts for eighty percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. Agreed on by scientists, the climate’s warming is essentially due to the abundant amount of carbon put into the atmosphere by humans (citation). This gas results from burning fossil fuels and brushland for agriculture, wood fires used for cooking, the cutting/burning of forests, and producing cement (citation). Almost one-third of the carbon pollution in the United…

“Secrets Beneath the Ice In Antarctica”, The scientists studied the climate change by examine the Antarctic Ice Sheet. As the deeper they reached the ice, the further back in time they can study because these ices contained tiny bubbles of ancient atmosphere that trapped each year as the snow was compressed into ice night. In the documentary, they used a machine to drill through ice to gather sample from the nearly two miles thick West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Then, they found samples in 480 meters…

Fossil Fuels also have a great influence on climate change. The burning of fossil fuels in factories and electricity production cover the earth and heat is trapped in, which does a lot of damage. Moreover, Excess heat has dramatically begun affecting the environment. Patrick O 'Driscoll and Dan Vergano, authors who are a part of a company called Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, “Among the findings, Tebaldi says, is that even if people stopped burning the fossil fuels that…

Weather is something that the world faces on a daily basis. The art of weather forecasting began with early civilizations using reoccurring astronomical and meteorological events to help them monitor seasonal changes in the weather (Griffin, 2005). During the 1800s, weather observations began to grow and expand across the United States (Uccellini, 2015). During the 19th century weather observations from distant points could be rapidly collected and analyzed at one location (Uccellini, 2015). The…

to develop. The free floating organisms would only be able to exist at the top of the clouds since the atmospheric pressure is more intense than Earths. The free floating organisms would have to be resistant to solar radiation though because the atmosphere is chaotic. Lastly the gravitational compression has heated areas close to the core over 18,000 degree Fahrenheit. With the information today that we have on Jupiter it cannot support life. Europa one of Jupiter’s moons is one of the best…

believe that Venus once had water, but due to the atmosphere and heat it evaporated the water. Then there is Mars, which scientists believe held life at one point in time. Due to the canals, which was used as evidence to prove at one point there was intelligent life on Mars to make such things. While Mars may have been able to support life in the past there is no new evidence that it holds life now or that it will in the future. Mars’ atmosphere is 1% as dense as Earth’s, which makes it…

surface temperatures through out the beginning of a warm period in recorded history. It is clear from scientific data that the reason for the rise in temperature is due to the surge of greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere. Since the identification of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, its presence has been tracked. Thanks to this historical data it is clear that the increase in greenhouse gases are the cause of global warming. However, there is still a debate about what is causing the…