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Assignment: SCIE211 Phase 3 Lab Report
Title: Sources of CO2 Emissions

Purpose
The purpose of this lab is to research and state reasons for the trend of carbon dioxide emissions from data provided by the Earth System Research Laboratory over the past 40 years.
Introduction
Fossil fuels, wood, and living organisms are only some of the things that carbon is found in. The Earth uses CO2 to sustain life using the Carbon Cycle. Plants use the carbon for photosynthesis as the humans release the same through respiration. However, carbon dioxide emissions are traced to be increasing with time among many nations around the world. This increase is said to be as a result of the increase in the use of fuels such as coal due to industrialization (responsible for 40% carbon dioxide emission worldwide). (Kornelis, 2012). Moreover, research shows that these carbon dioxide emissions are likely to increase in the near future with an estimated value of 10% (Kornelis, 2012).

Hypothesis
The rate of carbon dioxide emissions into the environment are increasing with time. It’s expected that the emissions will be high now and in the future to come.
Methods
For this lab, a website link (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/) to an interactive map of the world titled “GMD Observatory Operations” was provided and the following procedures followed. i. I clicked on a starred location on the map and one location opened. ii. To the right of the screen, there were pictured graphs written on ‘Examples of Data’. I clicked the one written ‘Carbon Dioxide’. iii. Once the carbon dioxide graph opened, I took note of the CO2 concentrations from previous years to present day. iv. I then repeated steps i-iii for all the other locations on the map. v. Lastly, I used the results I found to help me assess CO2 concentration trends from 1990 to