Global warming potential

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff was published in June of 2011. Based on an article of the same name written by Foster and Magdoff and printed in the March 2010 edition of the socialist magazine Monthly Review, the book is described by its publisher “short, readable…manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of ‘green capitalism’ or piecemeal reform.” The work argues that there is no ecological survival inside of…

Global warming, the increase of Earth’s atmospheric temperature, and climate change, the long-term change in Earth’s climate, are enormous, controversial topics in today’s world. One possible cause of these two happenings -- human activity. This worldwide issue needs to be researched and focused on by the people. The long hot temperatures, excessive weather, and other abnormalities may be effects of global warming and climate change. In addition, if humans are to blame, all should know more…

“I believe that humankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else's planet as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.” This quote was said by Leonardo DiCaprio, he explained that many people act towards climate change like it’s something that many people don’t act upon because many can’t imagine this actually happening to them. Many people around the world have different preferences on what climate…

Boerner, Christopher and Thomas Lambert. “Environmental Injustice.” Public Interest, no. 118, Winter 1995, pp. 61-82. Christopher Boerner and Thomas Lambert in their article “Environmental Injustice” examine the injustices done to the minority communities in the United States concerning environmental pollution. The authors argue that minority communities face a lot of environmental racism, which has spurred concerns from civil rights movements. Advocates of environmental justice have been on…

Is it possible to be 16 years old, stranded at sea for 227 days on the same boat as a tiger and come out alive? The answer to this question will most likely be "that's impossible". But Yann Martel wrote a book giving similar instructions on how to do just that. In Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi, readers follow Pi, a 16-year-old boy, throughout his journey of being stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger for 227 days. Throughout the book, the most definitive theme is survival.…

One of the most widely studied mitigation options for reducing concentration of CO2 in atmosphere involves injecting it into the ocean at great depths, where the gaseous CO2 reacts to form carbonic acid (H2CO3) as shown in equation (2.1). This equation shows various forms of CO2 as it is dissolved in the water (brine). Depending on the pH of the solution, either forms of CO2 may be observed (CO2 (aq), 〖"HCO" 〗_"3" ^"-" , 〖"CO" 〗_"3" ^"2-" ). There are two ways for storing CO2 in ocean, either…

If it is declared that humanity’s living space is under the threat, what comes to your mind initially? It is undeniable fact that there are lots of pre-exiting problems in the Earth and these are definitely immediate concerns for the continuation of life. When it is thought acutely for a while now, the first thing which has a significant influence on Earth is climate change. As it is asked you at the beginning of this essay, climate change affects humanity’s sustainability in a very serious way.…

anywhere from 4.8 million to 12.7 million tons were dumped into the ocean. And that’s still just plastic. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), approximately 1.4 billion pounds of trash enters the ocean each year. Global warming affects the ocean too. According to a 2013 report, temperatures in the shallowest waters rose by more than .1 degrees Celsius (.18 degrees Fahrenheit) each decade between 1970 and 2010. That may not sound like much, but corals are…

GLOBAL IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ON DEFORESTATION Introduction Deforestation can be defined as the process of general disruption of a forest ecosystem that occurs when trees are cut on a large scale. It also refers to any process that alters an original tree covers, which includes felling of all trees on a site, thinning a forest and setting bush on fire. Trees are cut down by people for various reasons, for example trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel in the form of…

natural gas for fuel, too much carbon enters the atmosphere at one time. The carbon combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gases are contributing to global warming because they trap more of the Sun's energy in the Earth's atmosphere therefore, this causes global warming. Burning of coal and diesel releases sulphur dioxide gas. This gas is extremely corrosive and suffocating in nature. Petrol gives off oxides of nitrogen. The oxides of sulfur and nitrogen…