Sulfur Dioxide causes lung irritation and acid rain like Nox but it also interferes with a car part (i.e. catalytic converter) that gives the car the ability to reduce emissions. ... Among them are solar and the more recent solution hydrogen powered cars. ... Solar cars are the oldest suggested answer to the vehicle pollution problem. ... However unlike conventional cars, solar cars store energy absorbed when braking rather than wasting it entirely to heat and noise. ... Converting a nice old car into an electric car would be noticeably less than a new gas powered car. ...

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Cars are powered by a number of fluids and emit harmful gases which are toxic to humans and animals. ... An efficient fix to these harmful emissions would be switching to all electric cars that do not use any type of fuel besides electricity so there will not be any carbon emissions from millions of cars daily. ...

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Make vehicles more efficient by (a) increasing fuel economy standards by 4 percent annually; (b) producing one million American-made plug-in hybrid cars with the capacity of 150 miles/gallon by 2015; and (c) making $4 billion in retooling tax credits and loan guarantees for auto and parts makers. 5. ...

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During the past one hundred years global warming has caused the temperature of Earth to rise. Since 1900 life span has doubled, manufacturing has increased, and gases have multiplied. Scientists believe that the drastic increase of greenhouse gases could lead to an increase in the average temperatur...

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As a society, the greenhouse effect will inevitably be of dire concern to us within the next century. The potential for future ecological damage is grueling, and should not go overlooked. Over the recent centuries our world as we know it has evolved greatly, whether looking at the creation of the ...

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The word currently is always advancing in technology making life easier for us people that live here. Over the years these actions taken to advance in technology and science have affected the environment adversely by polluting the environment. Environmental pollution is the contamination of the ear...

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In this day and age, global warming is an unquestionable fact, which proves that our planet and its climate are in trouble. Global warming affects all areas of our life whether it's politics, economics or socially. The study of global warming involves many sciences in order to look at the causes of global warming and try to find the best solutions to reduce the impact of our civilization on the planet. An interdisciplinary research in this field is important, because global warming is caused by many factors and has an impact on different circles of our life. For instance, climate science ...

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In 1997, leaders from 194 nations gathered together in Kyoto, Japan to come up with a sustainable environmental plan that promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The treaty they produced, known as the Kyoto Protocol, stated: "The goal is for Annex 1 (developed countries plus economies in transi...

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The geographic and weather conditions on Earth had changed for the past billions of years. These changes had caused numerous species to disappear. The planet pasted extremely hot seasons and also frozen times known as "ice ages." Scientists have knowledge of these changes because all the fossils and...

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Introduction In the past few decades, technology has undergone significant changes in different fields such as transportation, computation and communications industries. Technology has undergone notable changes as a collection of techniques, processes and methods to enhance human activities. Numbers...

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"Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each one of us can make choices to change that with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive; we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero. ...

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The greenhouse effect as stated in the dictionary is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. This process o...

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While some of the greater emissions in richer countries in fact arise from the greater level of industrial and other economic activity, large amounts of emissions are associated with individuals driving large cars long distances, heating large homes, eating an affluent diet, and consuming other comparatively luxurious goods. ...

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While some of the greater emissions in richer countries in fact arise from the greater level of industrial and other economic activity, large amounts of emissions are associated with individuals driving large cars long distances, heating large homes, eating an affluent diet, and consuming other comparatively luxurious goods. ...

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Biomass is organic material made from plants and animals. Biomass contains stored energy from the sun. Plants absorb the sun's energy in a process called photosynthesis. When biomass is burned, this stored energy is released as heat. Biomass is a renewable energy source because we can always grow mo...

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Sovereignty and the Kyoto Protocol Discussed Through the Arguments Supporting and Opposing Ratification In November 1992 a document entitled Warning to Humanity was released to the scientific community, and was signed by many national academies of science, more than 1500 scientists, and th...

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Along with the new and growing middle class in China, private car ownership has increased in China and some cities in China experience rush-hour congestion comparable to that of large cities in developed Western countries so there is definitely an increase in demand for oil for transportation. ...

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Ralph Torrie has generated many realistic solutions such as requiring an energy audit every time a house is sold, similar to how cars have emission tests. (3) Such a bylaw would cause drastic changes in our emission output as statistics like "40 percent of Canadian homes have no basement insulation and 62 percent heat with inefficient furnaces- would decline rapidly. ...

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GLOBAL WARMING Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear war. Fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and the release of industrial chemicals are rapidly heating the Earth to temperatures not experienced in human memory. Environmentally we have reached a point of unprecedented damage. Limiting global heating and climatic change is the central environmental challenge of our time. If it does not change, human health, birds fish, and many types of ecosystems will be permanently harmed. ...

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