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    What Is Global Warming

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    What is Global Warming? Global Warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter‚ disasters like hurricanes‚ droughts and floods are getting more frequent. Over the last 100 years‚ the average temperature of the air near the Earth´s surface has risen a little less than 1° Celsius (0.74 ± 0.18°C‚ or 1.3 ± 0.32° Fahrenheit). Does not seem all that much? It is responsible for the conspicuous increase in storms‚ floods and raging forest fires

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    billion vehicles travel our nation highways. However‚ by December 2011 that number increased to over 246.3 trillion automobiles. With such a high incline‚ how do automobiles affect our environment and the ozone layer? Majority of the pollution throughout our nation is caused by automobiles. The ozone layer is there to protect life from the ultraviolent rays from the sun. These layers become depleted due to high concentrations of chlorine or bromine atoms and include chlorofluorocarbons‚ or CFC’s‚ halons

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    Global Warming

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    particles are combined together they work like a blanket to trap the sun’s heat and make our planet warmer. Industries release pollution that can react with ultra violet light‚ which is the highest in the light spectrum‚ to create lower level ozone. Ozone increases light as a heat source‚ meaning that more heat is trapped on the earth’s surface. This heat contributes to Global Warming. The growth of big cities has an impact on Global Warming. It isn’t only that forests are removed from the environment

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    traditional policy field Air Pollution: the acidification of soil and water by pollutants such as sulphur oxides‚ nitrogen oxides and ammonia; the damage to buildings sensitive to the same acidifying substances; the formation of tropospheric ozone from so-called ozone precursors‚ e.g. volatile organic compounds‚ nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide which indirectly affect human and animal health and vegetation; direct effects on human health and ecosystems e.g. through high atmospheric concentrations

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    EARTH SCIENCE B STUDY GUIDE My name Craig Belnap Semester Earth science B MODULE SIX QUESTION ANSWER 6.1 Coastal Pollution 1. What are the consequences of coastal pollution? Unsafe environment for humans and wildlife‚ it can also kill fish that many use as a source of income. 2. What are the sources of coastal pollution? Agricultural‚ municipal‚ and industrial run off. Oil spills and waste that is dumped directly into the ocean. 3. What sequence of events causes a dead zone? Fertilizers

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    VPDmin‚ VPDmax‚ and fmin are the parameters. 5. fO3 The response function fO3 of gsto to the ozone-induced senescence is given in Equation 9. ‚

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    soils. This will adversely affect the nutrients in the soil and water bodies. This can result in algae growth in lakes and water bodies‚ and make conditions for other living organism harmful. Ground-level ozone: Chemical reactions involving air pollutants create a poisonous gas ozone (O3). Gas Ozone can affect people’s health and can damage vegetation types and some animal life too. Particulate matter: Air pollutants can be in the form of particulate matter which can be very harmful to our health

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    Not many people know about Green Chemistry. Yet if we had know about Green Chemistry back around 1951‚ when the world began to develop it’s industries - such as farming‚ after World War II we wouldn’t now be battling things such as damage to the ozone layer‚ diseases and harm to the environment‚ caused by chemical pesticides and dumping of chemicals into our oceans and other waterways. Not enough people realise the importance of chemicals and green chemistry in everyday life. Most people think

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    (chemical bonding‚  acid & bases‚  particulate model  of nature)  ­ it’s “haze in the    atmosphere  accompanied by high  levels of ozone and  nitrogen oxides‚  caused by the action  of sunlight on  pollutants.”  ­ photochemical smog  is composed of  primary pollutants (eg  oxides of nitrogen and  volatile organic  compounds) and  secondary pollutants  (like ozone‚ which is  Analysis  relevant  graph/table  (link to the  graph/table)  Interesting  information  Source    ­ smog is  mixture of 

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    An Exploration of How to Prevent the Effects and Causes of Air Pollution Air pollution has not always been an area of individual problem but has always been a big major of global problem. In fact‚ air pollution is not a new issue to us. When I was in high school‚ I was already interested in doing research about air pollution. I began my search of my issue with the following questions in mind. What causes pollution? What are its effects? What can we do to prevent it‚ and get rid of it? Can

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