Nitrous oxide

Would you stop having children, or not have any children at all if it meant you were saving the planet? The earth’s population is currently 7.3 billion, and according to CBS News, it will increase to 11.2 billion by the end of the century (Schupak). This means that at the current rate at which humans are reproducing, there will not be enough natural resources to sustain life on earth. No more fresh-water. No more trees. No more oil. Mankind will be driven to extinction without these crucial…

target was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from the 1990 baseline by 2050. This will be achieved by setting carbon budgets; reducing the demand for energy; investing in low-carbon technologies; reduce agriculture emissions which include nitrous oxide and methane. I believe that in the long term that not only will this move help to keep the population safe from illness but it will also help the country…

wild, your time is running out. Global warming is causing polar bears, and many other species to go extinct. Global warming, also known as climate change, is the rising of the Earth’s temperature due to greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, getting trapped in the atmosphere. When the gases can not leave the atmosphere, they absorb radiation and sunlight from the sun and make the atmosphere warmer. Global warming is being caused by humans and something should be done about it.…

Imhoff, Joseph. "Adopt-a-Tree." Plant a Wish. N.p., 09 Apr. 2014. Web. 20 Mar. 2017 According to Imhoff Joseph, there are many benefits of planting native plants and trees, such that increasing the diverse species, especially insects and the native animal. In addition, those plants and trees also improve the soil and landscape even more appropriate to the environment, therefore, when the landscape is strong and appropriate enough, it will make the water flow properly, which will reduce the…

Saving Planet Earth: How We Started and How to Stop Global Warming I chose to write my final paper on climate change because I find this topic tremendously important. This topic is important to me because we are seeing major changes with the place we call home, and if we don’t stand up and take responsibility and start to fix these problems, we will have some major issues for the coming generations. We need to come together as one and fix this problem. It won’t be easy, but if we all work…

In December 1997, there was an international treaty adopted unanimously by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was named after a Japanese City, it was called the Kyoto Protocol. It took only one year for members of the UNFCCC to decide that there needed to be stricter demands for reducing gas emissions (UNFCCC, 2014). This Protocol was designed to reduce the emissions of gases that contribute to global warming. Given that, there were 41 countries plus the…

Fertilizer has been around thousands of years and is needed in most places to grow crops. In these thousands of years, people have developed many types of fertilizer, including; Organic, High Tech, and Granular. Although in recent years people have used a large amount that is causing environmental problems. Even though fertilizer can cause diseases and ruin soil, it is necessary to grow enough food for the world because without it not enough food would be produced. According to American…

expert scientists from around the world, and they concluded that there 's "more than a 90 percent probability that human activities over the past 250 years have warmed our planet" (Shafter). Humans put gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide into the…

INTRODUCTION Fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and gas have dominated and supplied most of the world’s energy needs for decades. As the dominant energy supply, it is not likely to be eliminated. It is thought to remain persistently in the environment for the next few generations. Fossil fuels have many long term consequences; for starters they are not a renewable source, thus they can deplete faster than they can be renewed. Not only are they exhaustible, they are a major threat to the…

Fossil Fuels are organic deposits derived from decaying plants and animals that have been fossilized over millions of years. There is more to them than that however they are also hydrocarbons comprised primarily of the following elements: carbon and hydrogen and some sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and minerals. Different combinations of these elements are used as a fuel for our everyday lives. This paper’s purpose is to explain some of the chemistry behind the use of these various fossil fuels as…