Atmosphere

As humans, we never want to stop advancing. We will always look for the next bigger, better, and more efficient way of doing something, which has allowed us to create things such as planes, automobiles, and factories. While these inventions seem to have improved our lives, we see that the creation of this technology has greatly hurt the Earth as well as ourselves when looking at the bigger picture. Albert Einstein himself said that, “all of our exalted technological progress, civilization for…

Helium is the second element in the periodic table. Its period number is 1 and it is apart of group number: 18. The group that Helium falls under is the Noble Gases. The element has an atomic number of 2, an atomic mass of 4 and is classified as a non-metal. It is the second most abundant element in the universe. Helium was discovered on the sun before it was found on the earth. In 1895, Pierre-Jules-César Janssen, a French astronomer and Norman Lockyer, an English astronomer both who discovered…

Midwest could endure similar heat waves up to 3 times a year by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. They also cause blackouts and power outages. There have also been a growing number of large wildfires, which sends more CO2 into the atmosphere. Many places in the world are experiencing severe droughts. In May 2015, around 93% of California was in severe drought or worse. This shortage of water does not entirely depend upon the weather, but the society plays a role in it too.…

remark on global warming; however, this very quote exemplifies the misunderstanding of many opponents of anthropogenic climate change. By definition, weather is the study of short-term conditions of the atmosphere and climate is the study of long-term conditions, patterns, and behaviors of the atmosphere, which may or may not affect a region’s local weather. Weather will always have dramatic and sudden changes which are strange and unusual to a particular region, and people are inclined to use…

perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” -Bill Nye The Earth is a little over 4.5 billion years old, humans have only been around for 200,000, a mere 0.004% of earths history, and we have double the amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the 1960s. Important questions to ask yourself when discussing climate change is, what exactly is global warming, are temperature changes natural, and what can we do about it? Body What is…

Introduction Ozone depletion has been regarded as one of the global environmental issues for several decades. It is defined by Martens (1) as the situation that the amount of stratosphere ozone layer is decreasing and being damaged. The major reason is that the ozone in the stratosphere protects us from the harmful ultraviolet radiation and absorbs heat from the infra-red radiation. Reducing the amount of ozone probably causes irreversible and permanent damages to human and environment,…

Temperature’s vary across the globe for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons is that there is a heat imbalance on Earth due to fact that the earth spins on an axis, however this axis is not vertical. If the earth’s axis was vertical we would not experience any of the changing seasons that we do today. Instead we would all have equal lengths of day and night no matter which hemisphere you’re in because heat from the sun would be equally distributed all over the world even at the Poles and…

For this essay, I will be reviewing music in a social context. I attended First Baptist Church in Denton, Texas on October 25, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. I have attended this specific church once before and fell in love with its music and atmosphere. The atmosphere of the church feels very warm, comfortable, and cozy. Both the coordinators and members of the church are very welcoming as they greeted everyone that walks through the doors. The deacons, or coordinators, led us to seating to wait until the…

What is Global warming? How does it effect us and our environment? Global warming is one of many serious issues we face in the world today. Global warming simplified is, warming of the earths atmosphere. To get a better understanding on global warming, we must understand what is called the Greenhouse effect. Like any greenhouse filled with plants, rays of light from the sun passes through the glass, which produce energy, which is then absorbed by plants, and the soil. Much of the energy absorbed…

species are living in the forests that they call home, deforestation is a threat to their survival and for us, humans as well, since trees give us oxygen and if they are being cut down, as a result, it would increase the greenhouse gases within the atmosphere causing global warming. According to a research done by Softschools, (Softschools.com, n.d.) : ‘Approximately 20% of our oxygen is produced in the rainforests. It is estimated that they will be gone in 100 years, resulting in an extremely…