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In short, one of Lomborg's boldest claims was that cheap fossil fuels would improve lives. He reasoned that with the use of coal, countries have vanquished the spectre of poverty that haunts many, and that fossil fuels will continue to be an integral part of our daily lives. Upon closer examination of Lomborg's strand of argument, it is revealed that one of its biggest flaws is the blatant omission that several poor countries already have access to cheap fossil fuels through fuel subsidies. In…

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 1. Introduction to the international agreement The Montreal Protocol came into effect as a result of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. The Convention founded ozone depletion as highly global environmental problem that required international consensus on regulating the use of CFC’s. Two years later, on September 16th 1987, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was signed by 24…

of animal agriculture and they switch to a plant-based diet, then we could lessen or solve the problems associated with animal agriculture in the Midwest area. Animal agriculture is harmful to the environment in many ways. It creates more greenhouse gas emissions than from all transportation vehicles combined (Cowspiracy). Not only that, but it is also the cause of 90% of the rainforest destruction (Cowspiracy). The space that was once a rainforest is now used as cattle grounds or to grow the…

Chemical reactions Sabatier’s reaction When hydrogen combines with carbon dioxide at around 350 Celsius in the presence of alumina, ruthenium or nickel catalyst, it gives methane and water. CO2 + 4 H2 → CH4 + H2O This reaction can be used to produce water in empyreal. CO2can be extracted from mars and the waste from the industrial torus where there is high levels of CO2 H2 can be obtained from electrolysis The methane can be used as a fuel in industries. GRAVITY Empyreal has a torus…

There are many misconceptions in astronomy. For example, many people (even Harvard graduates) believe that the reason that seasons exist is that the closer Earth is to the sun, the hotter it is, resulting in summer. Likewise, the further away the Earth is from the Sun, the colder it is, resulting in winter. We know that the reason seasons exist is because of the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth. For instance, when Earth is on the right of the Sun, the tilt causes the northern hemisphere to be in…

Four Reasons Aluminum Is One of the Best Choices for Your Metal Needs Aluminum is thought by many to be the best choice for applications involving metal. Most people think of soda cans when they think of aluminum, but there are a great many other applications that make this the preferred choice for design work by engineers. The following are only a few of the most important reasons that aluminum is so popular. It is recyclable This is on top of the list because natural resources are limited,…

The fracking process involves the use of harmful chemicals mixed in with the water used. It is difficult to contain all of the chemicals and contaminated water from spreading to healthy water. This damages the environment and hurts the people around that area. “Streams polluted by the wastewater of fracking contained levels of contaminants that often exceeded federal guidelines for safe drinking water or aquatic health. Soil at the spill sites was contaminated with radium, a naturally occurring…

Polar bears have been alive for one million years. For the past thirteen years, global warming has been affecting climate change, and has hurt the polar bears’ habitat. Climate change has been fastly melting the Arctic. Greenhouse gases act like a sheet or blanket that keeps the planet warm. This protective layer keeps our atmosphere habitable. But over the past two-hundred years, have greatly increased the levels of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like oil and coal.…

Have you ever asked yourself, “how would the world react we were gone?” or “What if individuals no longer walked on the earth that we have impacted so much? What impact would we leave behind?” Although Alan Weisman admits that it is very unlikely that our species disappear”, he still talks about these questions in the book The World Without Us in order for us to more closely recognize our environmental impacts on earth. Weisman starts his book off with humans having vanished unexpectedly and…

Combustion is a chemical reaction between substances, according to www.scienceterms.com, "[Combustions processes] usually including oxygen and usually accompanied by the generation of heat and light in the form of flame. The rate or speed at which the reactants combine is high, in part because of the nature of the chemical reaction itself and in part because more energy is generated than can escape into the surrounding medium, with the result that the temperature of the reactants is raised to…