Greenhouse gas

activities that we do without thinking twice. However, these activities are slowly emitting a greenhouse gas called carbon dioxide or CO2. According to Merriam-Webster, a greenhouse gas is “any gaseous compounds that absorb infrared radiation and trap heat in the atmosphere.” Without greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, Earth would be a frozen world. However, humans have burned so much fossil fuel that the greenhouse gases are causing the whole planet to become warmer. This causes…

Antarctic Ice Sheet at substantial risk, and would cause widespread disruption to global ecosystems and the hydrologic cycle.” (Moore, 2009) Therefore, the U.S. decision to sign the bilateral agreement with China, another large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, will not only have positive effects for the U.S. but the world. While science is not indisputable not only will…

Jose Padilla Debate and Speech Period 4 Ms. Douglass The meaning of Deforestation “is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses.” Permanent, millions of acres of rainforests permanently destroyed, and we can’t replace those millions of acres as fast as we destroy them. We as humans take rainforests for granted, we only think of them a resources for paper but they are useful for so many other things. They are homes for many species, they keep…

the EPA has come to create deals with our vehicles and the fuel they use. The EPA has released the RFS (renewable fuel standards) on the 30th of November 2015 and has two intentions. According to Manning, “ The RFS program is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while reducing US dependence on oil imports. Under the program, a certain amount of renewable fuels must replace or reduce the amount of petroleum-based transportation fuel, heating oil, or jet fuel (Manning).” The EPA plans on…

Air pollution has been a growing concern in the New England area over the past few decades. Air pollution can come from many different sources including stationary sources like factories and power plants, mobile sources like vehicles, agricultural sources found from gassy animals and their waste products, as well as natural sources like wildfires, dust storms and other natural occurrences. Various cities around New England have identified the sources that are contributing to the air pollution…

they flooded the rainforest to “create requisite water mass and vertical drop to drop drive the generator” (McDonough & Braungart, 2013). The wood and vegetation created methane as they were soaking in the water. the methane emissions caused more greenhouse gases then were offset. Even though this was a bad design they haven’t failed they simply found a way that didn’t work, why give up…

2°C. To avoid a 2°C increase in the Earth’s temperature the U.S. needs big action now. In the article, “Five Steps America Must Take Now to Combat Climate Change” reveals five possible ways to combat climate change and they are implementing a Greenhouse Gas Fee that puts a price on climate change-causing emissions from all energy sources, government-backed National Green Bank that will provide greater certainty for renewable energy investors at no net cost to the American taxpayer, increase…

the instruction of what to do about it charcoal questionable. Financial aspects, humanism, and reserved alcove are terrifically critical figures making arrangements for what 's to come. Regardless of the possibility that we stuffed flourishing greenhouse gasses (GHGs) today, the Earth would in any case pleasant by expansion sum Fahrenheit or somewhere in the vicinity. In any case, what we do from today propelled has a major effect. Contingent upon our decisions, researchers adumbrate that the…

happening to them. Many people around the 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…

Despite the history and trend of climate change, many individuals still believe that climate change is not real and have asked the prominent question, “How do we know it is real?” In the scientific journal titled Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis the author writes about the trend of Carbon Dioxide (Figure 1A), Methane (Figure 1B), and Nitrous Oxide (Figure 1C). In figure 1A, 1B, and 1C there is an increase in Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide respectively, within the last…