What needs to be done to achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2020? Since the beginning of Industrial Revolution‚ concentrations of carbon dioxide‚ methane‚ and nitrous oxide have all risen dramatically because of human activities. Fossil fuel combustion‚ land-use change‚ increasingly intensive agriculture‚ and an expanding global human population are the primary causes for these increases. Other greenhouse gases found in our planet’s atmosphere include water vapor and ozone. Carbon
Premium Greenhouse gas Carbon dioxide Fossil fuel
08037644301‚ 0818929620 oseyenim@gmail.com OBJECTIVE: To strive for excellence and precision to meet the 21st century Challenges in the oil/gas‚ construction and Energy Company. PERSONAL DATA: Date of birth: 15 th December‚ 1980 State of origin: Delta Sex: male Marital Status:
Premium Nigeria Occupational safety and health
Q1} The bhopal gas tragedy is a catastrophe that has no parallel in industrial history. Bring out the ethical issues involved in the case. do you think the GOI and the madhya pradesh government were equally responsible for the disaster ? explain with reasons. Ans 1]} In 1985 the Indian government enacted the Bhopal Claims Act and took away from victims the right to represent them and vested itself with the exclusive right to represent victims. In return for a modest and arbitrarily determined
Premium Bhopal Bhopal disaster India
chemical element with the symbol F‚ atomic number 9‚ 9 electrons and protons‚ 10 neutrons‚ and the atomic mass of 19. Being the lightest halogen‚ it has one stable isotope‚ fluorine 19. At standard pressure and temperature‚ the element is a pale yellow gas as a liquid its a bright yellow. The electrons are located outside the nucleus of the atom. Electrons are organized in such a way that the space between them are inter dispersed. Within this space are distinct distances up to 100‚00 times away from
Premium Atom Chemical element Neutron
up on this old beat down gas station. We all knew it was old when the sign was hanging loosely and swinging with the wind. My dad needed to put gas but I could see he was very skeptical. I rolled my window down getting closer to the gas pump‚ when I smell the most unpleasant scent I have ever smelt. I told my dad we would have to pay for the gas on the inside because the machine was so old that dirt and spider webs built up in the card machine reader. The buttons to the pump were all faded from the
Premium English-language films Automobile Light
OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION: INTERROGATING THE OIL COMPANY’S ADHERENCE TO ARTICLE 40 ON COMMUNITY COMPENSATION Indigenous communities across the globe have been victims of unwarranted exploitation by private investors in the search for among others oil and gas. Whenever governments and oil companies intend to enrich themselves from the oil revenue‚ history has indicated that voiceless citizens are subjected to inhuman treatment and torture‚ deprivation of their indigenous community rights‚ disruption
Premium Petroleum
Bhopal Gas Tragedy Product - Brand name Sevin (Union Carbide) - Third most used insecticide in US - Not fatal to people Carbaryl - Does not cause cancer Chemistry TLV = 0.02 ppm Methyl isocyanate Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) Clear‚ colourless‚ b.p. 39oC‚ odour threshold 2.1 ppm Effects of 0.4 ppm - Coughing - Chest pain - Breathing pain (dyspnea) - Asthma - Eye irritation - Nose‚ throat‚ skin damage Effects of 21 ppm - Lung oedema - Emphysema (damage of lung tissue) - hemorrhaging - bronchial
Premium Bhopal disaster Dow Chemical Company
prevented the main feedwater pumps to send water to the nuclear reactors to cool them down (Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident 3). Due to this‚ the reactors began to overheat and eventually got to a point where there was an core nuclear meltdown. Thankfully for the U.S‚ the power plant containment walls remained mostly intact and wherein most of the radiation stayed‚ and the event did not become that relatable to Chernobyl or Fukushima (Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident 3). That
Premium Nuclear power Three Mile Island accident Nuclear safety
Against Capital Punishment One of the scenes from Green Mile‚ a film staring the famous Tom Hanks‚ portrays a scene where a prisoner is sentenced to death. The prisoner sat in a chair‚ strapped down‚ with a wet sponge on top of his head as electricity begins to flow through his body. His limbs and torso are jerked all over the place and pain is clearly seen. Later on in the movie‚ John Coffey‚ who was an innocent man who was sentenced to the death penalty for a crime he was accused of. Sadly in
Premium Capital punishment Prison Crime
chemical gasses as an weapon in war. Poison gas was the most feared out of all technology weapons in WW1. The gasses could burn skin‚ blind‚ or destroy your lungs if you happen to breathed in. Back then they had crude face masks to protect people in war from the poisonous gas floating in the air. Poison gas was easier during WW1 all they had to do was throw the poisonous gas bomb. “ A poison gas attack meant soldiers having to put on crude gas masks and if these were unsuccessful‚
Premium World War II Nuclear weapon World War I