According to the article "Air Pollution" from national geographic society, human activities in the past 150 years such as emissions of cars, planes, power plants by burning of fossil fuels have increased carbon-dioxide gas level higher than they have been in the past thousands of years in the atmosphere. ... Factories also utilize fossil fuels, which are a major factor that contributes to the climate changes. ... Jonathan Harris, Brian Roach, and Anne-Marie Codur expressed that according to the sociologist, the cost of carbon taxes is not sufficient because these taxes supposed to ...

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Fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and the release of industrial chemicals are rapidly heating the Earth to temperatures not experienced in human memory. ... Fossil fuel use releases about 6 billion tons per year to the atmosphere. ... Tropospheric ozone is photochemically produced in the atmosphere as a result of the release of methane, carbon monoxide, and other hydrocarbons, due largely to emissions from fossil fuel burning. ...

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Most of these emissions, about 82%, are from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and power our cars. ... Before the Industrial Revolution, human activity released very few gases into the atmosphere, but now through population growth, fossil fuel burning, and deforestation, we are affecting the mixture of gases in the atmosphere. ... Several factors can affect the emissions per person in a state, for example, the types of fuel used to generate electricity, population and vehicle miles traveled ,and whether fossil fuels are extracted or processed within the state. ...

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The indication is that because of human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, levels of greenhouse gases are now increasing, especially carbon dioxide levels. ... The historic example usually cited is the substitution of coal for wood as the principal fuel of Western Europe, after the forests there became depleted. ... Ironically, even initiatives to develop alternative sources employ fossil fuel energy for their efforts. ... Acid rain is produced by the burning of fossil fuels, especially coal burned to generate electric power. ...

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The temperature on earth's surface is determined by the solar radiation energy and heat reflected from the earth to outer space. Sunlight warms the surface, and then emits energy in the form infrared rays, or heat. Then a certain percentage of these rays are absorbed in the by atmospheric gases...

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These increases are a result of combustion of solid waste and fossil fuel, the production and transport of coal and oil, the decomposition of organic wastes, deforestation, and most significantly the through various industrial processes. ...

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While mitigation is an action plan to reduce the sources and enhance the sinks, China has a wide coastal range that could be used to generate kinetic energy from marine energy and reduce the fossil-fuel usage. ...

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Some solutions that I would do to combat the global warming problem include: 1) I could install solar panels in my house to supply electricity which are more cost productive and environmental friendly unlike fossil fuels which produce carbon dioxide into the air; 2) cut back on electricity usage because they are major contributors to the production of sulfur dioxide; 3) plant trees and other plants to absorb carbon dioxide. ... This is great for everyone to join and be a part in cleaning up the environment; 4) using less fuels by car pooling with other students or running to certain places pro...

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