Methane

Food waste is becoming a huge problem in developed countries. The U.S. National Resource Defense Council found that 150 billion dollars’ worth of food is wasted as it ends up rotting in American landfills, and produces methane which is a powerful chemical compound that is 20 times more damaging than green house gas. Canada is also one of the leading food waste countries as the Value Chain Management International estimates that Canadians waste more than 31 billion dollars of edible food each…

being a prominent figure among ethnic minorities, Martin Luther King Jr., as evidenced by his support of sanitation workers in Memphis, supported any cause which he saw as worthy. What he saw worth in; however, was not just the poor, the minorities, the disenfranchised, or the oppressed, but those who he saw as being slighted of true justice and true equality. Perhaps this mentality is what drove him to comment on environmental protection—a cause which not only affects minorities or the poor,…

Created when sunlight reaches the Earth’s surface, it can either be absorbed by the Earth or reflected back into space. The planet releases some of the energy back into the atmosphere when the rest is absorbed as heat. These gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor: absorb the energy, decelerating or inhibiting the loss of heat back into space. Therefore the gases acting like a blanket, causing the Earth to increase in temperature. Resulting from the trapped gases known to scientists…

of the environmental consequences of food waste. Such environmental consequences are amplified by the fact that the food taken to landfills rots into methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas with a “high global warming potential.” (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) The massive piles of food waste are one of the leading sources of man-made methane gas production. As Jared Diamond points out in his work “The World as Polder: What Does It Mean To Us Today,” we, as humans, are “the cause of our…

3.5 millimeters. On top of that, the permafrost is melting from the arctic circle and the villages are being affected by it. Out of 213 Alaska Native villages, 184 have been seriously affected by the melting of the permafrost. Permafrost produces methane, that is deadly, it is like 2 times worse than carbon dioxide. This means that it has a greater warming effect as…

Both being green house gases, carbon dioxide and methane trap in heat to allow our earth to have moderate climates. With the excess amount of methane, however, this will cause climate change and the melting of Greenland and Iceland which will cause sea levels to rise. This creates a chain reaction because if the environment is under water, there is…

Climate change is a topic that is not on the top of a lot of people’s mind as they go through their everyday lives. Many people feel like they have more important things to worry about and someone else will take care of the problem. Well, climate change is a problem and just recycling is not going to be enough. Major action of implementing new technologies to reduce climate change needs to take place if people plan on having the world around for future generations. The problem the world is…

CONSERVE FOSSIL FUELS The climate change is a hard situation and a big problem. Everybody is informed about the climate change, everybody knows how climate changes affect our planet, the people and our nature and environment. The biggest reason why we have climate change is because we use fossil fuels. I live an ordinary life, I go to school, I have friends and a good family. Today the majority of people in the world live a good life, we have money and we have food on our table. But how can…

" The carbon footprint is a measure of the total set of GHG ( greenhouse gas ) emissions that is directly and indirectly caused by an activity or an individual , organization , event are accumulated over the life stages of a product . " - Why work out a carbon footprint : The increasing interest in ‘carbon foot printing ’ comes as a result of growing public awareness of global warming . The global community they know that it need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to not effect on climate…

other types of resources suggest that today’s 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit is much warmer than the past temperature periods. Climate change is mostly caused by the human activities, which causes an increase of greenhouse gasses. Including, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous gasses, fluorinated gasses, and other types of gasses. The burning of fossil fuels and the cutting rainforests can cause an increase in greenhouse gasses. They trap heat and increase the effect on the greenhouse effect.…