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    Global warming since then generally define as a gradually increasing in temperature, which results in changing global climate permanently. Earth 's climate has been negatively influenced by many direct and indirect ways. Humans can severely damage the quality of climate. Most people are not aware that actions contribute to the decay of the Earth through time. Much research has been focused on the effects of global warming, as a direct result of the elevation of carbon dioxide and other…

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    Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Feb. 2016. In this article, Jadhav et al. propose the chemical recycling of CO2 as a practical technique to generate methane, which has great demand in the chemical and energy industries. Economically, CO2 is inexpensive as it is obtained from any industrial or natural sources and human activities. The production of methane from the hydrogenation of CO2 can indeed substitute natural gas and petroleum oil since it provides an unrestricted and renewable source for…

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    Throughout the years it has been easier to notice how climate has changed. Some summers are not very warm and some winter are not very cold. Even crazier, sometimes spring feels like winter and summer like autumn, and so on. Since the 1800’s humans have had the knowledge that climate changes are possible, and can happen from atmosphere variations as Fourier calculated in 1824, which can lead to the Earth becoming far colder. Additionally, the industrial revolution lead to “coal, railroads, and…

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    Entitled Americans: How our Excessive Food Waste Contributes to Climate Change Briana Clementz Denver South high school Spring 2017 Abstract How large of an impact does the food we waste have on the environment? Or better yet, how much food do we actually waste annually? According to Ira Flatow of NPR, we waste approximately 33 million tons of food in the United States every single year. By using scientific and argumentative resources, I was able to research just how large of an impact…

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    Factory farming needs to be more closely monitored because it is a leading cause of animal abuse. The definition of animal abuse is:“The intentional infliction by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal, regardless of whether the act is against the law” (UIA). On factory farms, animals are confined to battery cages, gestation crates, farrowing crates, feedlots and veal crates for the majority of their lives. These forms of containment cause severe pain and disease to the animals.…

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    They are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane. Carbon dioxide generates over 55% of the greenhouse effect. It comes from fossil fuel use such as natural gas, coal and oil. A small part comes from industrial processes. An example of this is cement production. The making of cement involves the…

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    activity was very intense for the first billion years on Earth. They also think that the composition of the early atmosphere was as the following: - Mainly carbon dioxide gas - Very little or no oxygen at all - Small amounts of the gases ammonia and methane - Some water vapor This atmosphere, the scientists say, is very similar to the atmosphere of Venus, which is 90% carbon dioxide. However, about 3500 million years ago, small little plants started to grow on the…

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    The Greenhouse Effect This paper will revolve around the the Greenhouse effect and its effect on all things around it. Basically our environment has all these gases in it that are bad and good. The basic idea is that there are gases in our atmosphere that are unable to leave and it just continue to build indefinitely. The earth 's temperature then starts rising and rising and until it is said that eventually it will cause everything to waste away.. This gradual rise of the Earth 's temperature,…

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    Bardakci 1 Kaan Bardakci 50132344 ESL 408 – Professor Jon Meeder Research Paper 1st Draft 21 April 2015 Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming Since the beginning of the history , humanity has fought with dramatic disease like sharbon , malaria or AIDS , however they prevented harmful effects of these diseases every time .In old times which was before Industrial Revolution , people did not need any machine producing devices like cars , laptops , houses , residances so global warming was not…

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    Causes and Effects of Global Warming According to a study done by National Wildlife Federation, “The current pace of global average temperature rise puts approximately 25 to 35 percent of plant and animal species at increased risk of extinction.” This poses a huge threat to humans, as the majority of oxygen is derived from plants. Furthermore, without the influence of various predatory animal species, the populations of prey would skyrocket. Global warming has recently developed into one of…

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