more extreme storms‚ more severe droughts‚ deadly heat waves‚ rising sea levels‚ and more acidic oceans‚ which can affect the very base of the food chain. The primary cause of global warming is human activity‚ most significantly the burning of fossil fuels to drive cars‚ generate electricity‚ and operate our homes and businesses. Tropical deforestation‚ also by human hands‚ is another major contributor. According to Union of Concerned Scientists ( 2010) When these forests are burned‚ they release
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atmosphere trap heat from the sun. They let heat in‚ but prevent most of it from escaping. It is essential for life because we need a certain amount of radiation to heat up our atmosphere. What human activities produce Greenhouse Gases? By burning fossil fuels such as coal‚ oil and gas‚ Carbon Dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Deforestation also releases Carbon Dioxide. Farming in rice paddy fields and cattle farming produces Methane. Nitrous Oxide is produced by jet craft‚ car and lorry engines
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earth’s surface and the oceans is directly proportionate to the concentration of these greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In the last one hundred years‚ the concentration of these gases has increased tremendously due to large scale burning of fossil fuels and rapid industrialization. This has accelerated global warming‚ which in the future will lead to the submergence of land masses into the sea‚ extinction of certain vegetation and wildlife‚ and the
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for climate change due to its role in climate change. Undue emission of injurious greenhouse gases into atmosphere is causing a raise in average temperature that in turn is affecting the climate on Earth (What is climate change‚ 2001). The use of fossil fuels as a dominant aspect is continuing to emit CO2 and other greenhouse gases into atmosphere that is causing even more grave effects to climate change. With the rise in temperature globally effects like severe changes in weather patterns‚ climbing
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earth’s temperature to continue rising. The greenhouse effect is caused by burning fossil fuels‚ deforestation‚ and an increase in population. With an increase demand for gasoline we have become dependant on fossil fuels which causes an increase in the greenhouse effect. Fossil fuels are any combustible organic material such as coal‚ oil‚ or natural gas made from the remains of former life (DictionaryReference.com). We burn fossil fuels to produce electricity for many things including transportation.. Pollution
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garbage‚ crops‚ wood‚ landfill gas‚ and alcohol fuels. Biomass can be converted to many useful forms of energy like transportation fuels ( such as ethanol and biodiesel). Biomass is one of the biggest green energy sources in the world. Converting Biomass‚ first goes through chemical and thermal to mechanical and finally to electrical. That is the process we use when we burn biomass. So an example would be cow manure and that would be changed into fuel. How? Well there is this process called Anaerobic
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new eaarth as “a played-out rock and a hot place”. We are drilling and extracting fossil fuels‚ burning them into CO2 that causes greenhouse effect. The problem is that even we have a sense of what we are doing‚ we are still unwilling to change our behavior‚ and according to McKibben‚ it’s all about the money. Some companies not willing to give up their profits on fossil fuels; in addition‚ the existing fossil fuel infrastructures worth at least 10 trillion‚ which takes 10-50 years to be paid off
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global warming are known‚ there can be strategies done to minimize its causes and effects. To achieve this countries and individuals have to work together to fight global warming‚ agreements made at the Kyoto Protocol is to minimize burning of fossil fuels in world leading countries of greenhouse gas emission including the United States and China. The earth ’s atmosphere is made up of gases; carbon dioxide‚ methane‚ water vapor and nitrogen‚ these gases are known as the greenhouse gases‚ they trap
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both natural sources‚ such as volcanoes and decaying vegetation‚ and man-made sources‚ primarily emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) resulting from fossil fuel combustion. In the United States‚ roughly 2/3 of all SO2 and 1/4 of all NOx come from electric power generation that relies on burning fossil fuels‚ like coal. Acid rain occurs when these gases react in the atmosphere with water‚ oxygen‚ and other chemicals to form various acidic compounds. The result is a mild solution
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HL Geography study guide Unit 4: Patterns in resource consumption Vocab Carrying capacity the max. population size that an area can sustainably support given the current conditions and resources available Population ceiling the point where Earth’s ability to support us is lower than our ability to produce more babies; acts as a barrier/lid to population growth Optimum population when there’s a balance between the people in a country and the availability of its resources and technology
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