Methane

A world academic has taken the world by storm. Many don’t believe in such phenomenon because of the possibility of such happening. This very phenomenon is known as global warming. What global warming is known for is the high rise of the average temperature from the past centuries. Earth is known for minor climate changes. For example, the season winter it gets colder compared to summer. How scientists determine past climates is by looking into the tree’s rings, ocean sediments, and etc.…

The documentary film Before the Flood, directed by Fisher Stevens and starring academy award winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, in short, is about climate change. It dives into deeper topics such as the effects of industrialism on our planet, what our future looks like and what we should be doing to reverse our actions. Leonardo DiCaprio, who besides being an actor is an environmental activist tries to convey the message that climate change is real and that it is destroying our planet. He…

what it would be without the atmosphere. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. Gases that influence the greenhouse effect is water vapor, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane. Some have a positive feedback like water vapor and others have a negative feedback like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The more the atmospheric temperature rises the more water vapor increases. In the last century, the amount of carbon dioxide has increased significantly due to the…

An Environmental Disaster The American responsibility to the environment has been a political debate for a long time, especially now as Donald Trump has been elected to be president. Barack Obama, Trump’s predecessor, had established an environmental policy to protect the environment. Trump, however, recently made an “Energy Independence Executive Order” that removes regulations that protect the environment, to make American citizens feel as if they have power over government. Trump, and many…

and possible reserves, all of which probably exceed the guesses being made. Meaning, “that the world has far more fossil fuels than it can safely burn”. This is even greater if you include “all the tar sands, heavy oil, kerogen, shale gas, coal-bed methane, and other unconventional sources are included”. Leaving us to tackle the problem of leaving “most of the world’s fossil fuel reverse in the ground” and deliberately bringing about “the peak of fossil fuels”. Chapter 5. Top-down approaches…

heat trapping capacity of a gas with respect to carbon dioxide equivalent. Generally GWP is calculated for a fixed period of time i.e. 20, 100, and 500 years. For example, the 100year GWP of methane is 21, which means if the same mass of methane and carbon dioxide were introduced into the atmosphere, that methane will trap 21 times more heat than the carbon dioxide over the next 100 year. Table 3 List of GWP of green house gas GREEN HOUSE GAS GWP CO2 1 CH4 25 N2O 298 HFC’s 124-14800 SF6 22800…

Explore the impact of the agricultural revolution on human society Looking back at the achievements of humans, one that some say has caused the largest impact is the Agricultural Revolution. During the late 18th and 19th centuries as a result of the Industrial Revolution, and its advances came the Agricultural Revolution. Due to the developments in technology, the agricultural system in Britain was completely overhauled. The system had to become more efficient to meet the demands of the growing…

Permafrost Thawing According to National Geographic, “Permafrost is a permanently frozen layer below the Earth 's surface. It consists of soil, gravel, and sand, usually bound together by ice. Permafrost usually remains at or below 0C (32F) for at least two years”. The most frequent places you will find permafrost is in the Northern Hemisphere, mostly found in Siberia, northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Because of the longevity of the lasting permafrost, a plethora of infrastructure has…

The stench, the horrendous sight, and the wretched feeling that landfills give off to their viewers. What kind of world do individuals want to live in where their air is filled with smog, and their water is brown with lead poising. While extremes are not always the case, they could become common if the waste in which the world throws away is not reduce. Recycling, the solution to the waste dilemma, provides a plausible reality in which individuals can contribute to reusing materials in hopes…

From the year 0 to 2005 this group recorded the changes in the main gasses causing climate change and found that methane has increased around 1200 parts per billion, carbon dioxide levels escalated around 100 parts per million, and nitrous oxide increased about 55 parts per billion. The period of dramatic increasing greenhouse gasses in the 1970’s coincides with an…