Silicon dioxide

Climate change is affecting the world in different forms and increments. In the last century various parts of globe have seen the impacts of global warming, green gas emissions, and flooding. These natural disasters cause massive amounts of damage economically, politically and socially leading to competition for limited resources, upheaval and chaos on both the local and national spectrums. However, many are quick to dismiss the impact of climate change when its horrific effects do not hit…

changing. The first powered gasoline car (Benz Patent-Motorwagen) was made in 1807 and made by Karl Benz. Gasoline is made from fossil fuels, which is released into the atmosphere. When gasoline is burnt it releases carbon dioxide (CO2). The burning of coal releases carbon dioxide into the air. Coal is used to produce electricity and heat. Joseph Fourier found that earth temperature approximately 15 Celsius, the incoming energy and out-coming energy keeps the temperature constant. As a result,…

Are future carbon dioxide levels going to affect the ocean’s fish population? The future effects of carbon dioxide and climate change cannot be certain, however, Rachel Sullivan argues otherwise. In a recent ABC Science article (2016) the author, Rachel Sullivan, references a study in the journal Biology Letters (Connel, Gillanders, Nagelkerken, Russel, 2015), to draw a conclusion that ocean acidification will negatively affect the soundscape that fish larvae rely on to navigate through the…

Background Lomborg stated that greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere cause global warming. However while global warming is a problem, Lomborg believes that its total impact will not have a devastating effect on humanity’s future. Lomborg’s claim is an important topic as it relates to global warming and the ecosystems affected by the extra heat. This heat is caused when the greenhouse gases that are emitted by various sources linger in the atmosphere. While these gases…

processes and the home to many known and unknown organisms. The first few meters of the ocean are an important site for primary production — the conversion of carbon dioxide from a gas into organic carbon. Carbon dioxide plays an important role in determining the pH of ocean water. Over the last hundred years the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have increased, leading to changes in the chemistry of the ocean. As time progresses it is becoming more acidic. National Geographic has done…

our society have acknowledged that and attempt to restore the destruction by going "green," there are plenty of alternatives to pollution creating toxins that harm the ozone layer. This ozone layer is destructed by the buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases, which in turn causes global warming. These gases are meant to trap the earth 's heat, and when this protective layer is destroyed, the earth 's temperature is uncontrolled. The main concepts by which the topic of global…

glaciations as the theory of snowball earth states a frozen sea must be present (Hoffman, et al., 1998). It does not however dictate that the continents also must be entirely frozen. However for no hydrological cycle and thus no weathering or carbon dioxide draw down to occur most continental areas would have to be covered by at least thin ice sheets. This is evidence that the seas remained anoxic throughout the snowball glaciations. If these glaciations can be attributed to δ13 C excursions in…

Perhaps the most vital thing to address is the difference between climate and weather, because so many people don 't know the difference. Weather is what happens on a short time scale--from day to day, while climate is more long term, and is the long term trend over hundreds to thousands of years. We are releasing tons of gases and dust particles into the earth 's atmosphere every day, and so the salient question becomes: What type of effect do these gases have on our atmosphere? Most climate…

However, carbon dioxide seems to be the most concerning as an enormous amount of it is emitted in the atmosphere due to daily societal activities. Since the beginning of industrial revolution, around 500 billion tons of carbon dioxide has been released in the air. However, 250 billion tons are still in the atmosphere (An Expert View on Carboon Capture and Storage , 2013). This proves that carbon dioxide takes a significant amount of time to disappear. If the amount of carbon dioxide continues to…

There are multiple ways that are shown as evidence of global warming and deterioration of the environment. Some evidence of these changes are the changes in the sun, volcanic eruptions, and the increase of carbon dioxide in the environment. The evidence of humans causing these issues is also very overwhelming. Scientists have used radiative forcing, global climate models, fingerprint attribution and detections, and atmospheric measurements to see obvious relations…