night too. This is because the heat received from the sun is trapped inside the greenhouse by the glass. The Earth is also like a greenhouse. During the day Earth’s surface warms up in the sunlight. At night, the surface cool, releasing the heat back into the air. But some of the heat is trapped by gas like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These gases, called greenhouse gases, work like the glass walls and the roof and keep the earth warm. This is global warming and it is making the earth dangerous
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on a global plan to deal with the earth's changing climate and that's causing many people to be upset and try to find ways to help the planet. Many people argue that even if the production of greenhouse gases is dramatically reduced, global warming will continue and destroy the planet (Global Warming). There is plenty of evidence that global warming in fact is real, including evidence from many scientists and data from the past showing the changes in the earth's temperature and the levels of water
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the ozone layer thinner and thinner and lead to the warming of the earth’s atmosphere and climate changes. Our modern life style has led to dirtier air over the years. Factories, vehicles of all kinds, the growing number of people are some things that are responsible for air pollution today. But not all pollution in the air is caused by people. Forest fires, dust storms and volcanoeruptions can lead to the pollution of the atmosphere. Major pollutants and where they come from Carbon monoxide is
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emitted. Secondary pollutants are created in the atmosphere when primary pollutant mix. 3. A) Volatile organic compounds. B) Sulfur Dioxide. C) Carbon Monoxide. D) Nitrogen Oxides. 4. A) On-road Vehicles. B) Carbon Monoxide. 5. A mixture of “smoke” and fog, now it means any air pollution in general. 6. Storng sunlight. 7. The ozone. 8. The afternoon. Summer months. 9. Yes, Ozone is only harmful when produced at the Earth’s surface. 10. It only absorbs, and doesn’t emit
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Global Warming General Chemistry I Bret Lynn For millions of years the changes in Earth’s climate have been driven by forces of nature. Although, for the last century and a half, Earth’s average temperature has been rising faster than any time in the past 10 thousand years. “We’re on a track to 700 parts-per-million of carbon dioxide on the planet, we haven’t seen that for 50 million years”(1). The signs are everywhere: droughts in the American southwest, rising seas in Louisiana, tropical
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pollutants react in the atmosphere. Nitrogen dioxide is both a primary and secondary pollutant. It is a primary pollutant because besides oxygen is a main gas that frequents our atmosphere. It is a secondary pollutant because it is formed by the oxidation of nitric oxide, which is produced by traffic and fossil fueled power stations. The second air pollutant that I am discussing is carbon dioxide. It is considered a primary pollutant because it is already present in our atmosphere but it does become
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stupid. Many scientists and the media tell us, that our CO2 emissions cause the climate change while there is no proof for it. The earth’s atmosphere contains around 0,038% CO2 and the humanity caused 1, 2% of ‘all the’ CO2, most of it by forest clearance. That means that many scientists and the media want us to believe, that the 0, 00046% of CO2 we added to the atmosphere are the cause of a natural disaster. Even if the media wants to keep them under wraps, there are still some scientists left, who
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impact of global warming is predictable. Global warming can be defined as the gradual increase of the earth’s atmospheric temperature due to the release of carbon dioxide, methane gas, fossil fuels, and other toxic chemical emissions trapped in atmosphere that causes correspondence changes in climate. These changes are rapid in the global atmosphere over a relatively short period of time, and becoming more prevalent in the world presently. There are numerous records that show
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spend in different interior spaces. Indoor air quality is of particular interest, since it effects behavior, ventilation, and the health of people. There is major concern for health issues resulting from indoor air pollution, as well as from the atmosphere. Similar to the Volatile organic compounds used in polluting indoor air quality, uses of similar chemicals are causing atmospheric issues as well. Compounds originate from indoor sources; a point of origin of gases or other materials which appears
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However, since 1800, there has been very little or no change in solar output, yet the earth is still warming. In addition, if the sun had become more active, warmer temperatures would have been found through all layers of the atmosphere, while instead, the upper atmosphere has cooled and the lower parts have warmed. This suggests solar irradiance is not the only contributing factor to global climate change. However
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