Geoengineering

Over 500 billion tons of CO2 have been emitted into the atmosphere in the last two centuries. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels have mutated into horrendous, but common, problems like oil spills, air pollution, climate change, and global warming. Furthermore, unbeknownst to the majority of the world, another issue has emerged. The problem has been labeled as ocean acidification. Lying dormant for decades, only recent studies conducted by scientists have revealed this…

Humanity has always searched for solutions to problems that have challenged societies for centuries. The development of science and the scientific method has given humans the ability to explore and change the environment in which humans live. However, with the emergence of geo-engineering the unknown variables can present more problems than solutions. It is understandable that humans are concerned with the radical way in which the world’s climate is changing; what is not understandable is the…

I was going to change the world. That was the goal I set out upon when starting out my action project. I knew that it was supposed to be a small project, but I thought I could change Missoula in just fifteen hours. After numerous attempts to get in contact with organizations that could have a broad, long term impact on the community, I decided to simply pick up trash from a local park. This job wasn 't glamorous or exciting and it wasn 't going to change the way people looked at recycling and…

The use of biochar on a widespread and large-scale has thus been shown to be greatly beneficial in the fight against climate change, as well as for sustainable soil management. But before this can be seriously implemented and developed into policy, scientific evidence must be expanded to fully cover implication of its use on soil properties, processes and functions (Verheijen et al 2012). Until this has been comprehensively quantified, regulations have a higher likelihood of unsuccessfully…

Earth is a planet that has relatively stable temperatures. This is possible because of Earth’s atmosphere as it consists of a thin layer of gases that forms a “cloak” around the planet. There are 97 percent of climate scientists that agrees that people on Earth has changed its atmosphere in a considerable way over the past two centuries. The results of this is due to the greenhouse effect that causes global warming (Lallanila, 2015b). But what is the greenhouse effect? What is the greenhouse…

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