Government Policies The science of how burning carbon-based fuels discharges greenhouse gasses are understood. Hydrocarbons, the general category for various kinds of fossil fuels when kindled as a basis of energy, whether running automobiles, manufacturing plants, trains, or coal-fired power plants, create greenhouse gasses that are encompassed by carbon dioxide and water. ... There are numeral steps, which must be taken to reduce greenhouse gasses, and two climate policies are necessary to fix the concerns in the marketplace for fossil-based fuels. ... The two climate policies are the imple...

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We all have it within our ability to use a fraction of the fossil fuel in our day to day living. Industry cannot force us to use more fossil fuel if we choose alternatives. It's important to support every form of individual effort to produce less carbon dioxide, rather than taking the narrow view that only large projects attempting to compete with the energy supplied by fossil fuel will yield a satisfactory outcome. ... Prosecution of climate change deniers is really happening, the 20 scientists sent a letter to the White House calling for their political opponents to be investigated by t...

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The extraction and the utilization of fossil fuels is the main contributing factor to climate change. ... This twofold implication of fossil fuel usage somehow creates a paradoxical situation where one is torn between what should be done and what should not be done (Gardiner, Stephen M, 2006, p. 400). ... On the other hand, going ahead with fossil fuel usage will destroy the environment and this will compromise the existence of the future generations. ... The main contributant of carbon IV oxide is the burning of fossil fuels which constitutes a 75% portion. ... Reports place the figures at ar...

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These treaties that protect antarctica clearly helps with the effort to help climate change because these treaties make it illegal for oil companies to drill for oil and fossil fuels their. Fossil fuels and greenhouse gases have always been linked to climate change and global warming and even though scientists believe they are to blame for global warming, not having them in Antarctica drilling not only helps with the wildlife there but also slows the melting of the ice caps. ...

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It is industry freely burning fossil fuels to make a profit, and about the fact that every person on the earth requires energy, a clean source for which does not yet exist, or has not been implemented because of the tight grip governments and corporations hold on their stake in energy (fossil fuels), on which they know every person is dependant. ... These figures are not consistent with a natural trend, and, when one considers the tens of thousands of years in which humans have inhabited the earth, and that humans have really only started burning fossil fuels heavily since the industrial r...

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He concluded that, "...most of the CO2 released by artificial fuel combustion since the beginning of the industrial revolution must have been absorbed by the oceans. ... Johnson concluded that, "This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through...a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels" (Johnson). ... For the most part, blue states produce little fossil fuel and rely less on coal for electricity, allowing for the production of less carbon in a setting progressing past the industrial period. The Republican favoring a...

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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 most important thing which needs to happen is the reduction of fossil fuels. If we can eliminate the burning of coal, oil and, eventually, natural gas by using alternatives when possible such as plant-derived plastics, biodiesel, wind power this will really help the emission of fossil fuels. ...

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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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Global warming is the rapid and gradual increase in Earths average surface temperature.1 The increase of surface temperature was found to be caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, which releases greenhouse gasses into Earths atmosphere.2 Greenhouse gasses include Carbon Dioxide, also known as CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide, to name a few, although the most common comes in the form of CO2 from fossil fuel consumption. ...

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For the past few years, environmentally sustainable sources of energy and fuel have been at the forefront of the media and minds of Americans more than ever before. ... Even as the environmental consequences of drilling for and burning fossil fuels at an unsustainable rate mount alarmingly quickly, clean energy research and development is still relatively under-funded and overlooked as it has been for decades. ...

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"The primary human-produced source of carbon dioxide is the burning of fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. These fuels are widely used in electricity generation, transportation, and industry" ( Britannica School, 2015). ...

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For the past few years, environmentally sustainable sources of energy and fuel have been at the forefront of the media and minds of Americans more than ever before. ... Even as the environmental consequences of drilling for and burning fossil fuels at an unsustainable rate mount alarmingly quickly, clean energy research and development is still relatively under-funded and overlooked as it has been for decades. ...

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The predominant argument behind global warming is that human activity and excessive carbon dioxide emissions have caused it to initiate, while the perpetual use of fossil fuels and other carbon emitters will cause the temperature to continuously increase. ... For the last few decades however, global warming supporters and theorists have been blaming the temperature increase on carbon dioxide and other fossil fuel emissions, claiming that as carbon gas emission increases so too does the temperature. ...

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The problem: Emissions of greenhouse gases have increased dramatically in the last century through fossil fuel burning and land-use changes. ... Developed countries, home to 20 percent of the world's people, are responsible for about 63 percent of net carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and land use changes since 1900. ...

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The problem: Emissions of greenhouse gases have increased dramatically in the last century through fossil fuel burning and land-use changes. ... Developed countries, home to 20 percent of the world's people, are responsible for about 63 percent of net carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and land use changes since 1900. ...

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" Scientists have knowledge of these changes because all the fossils and rock's fingerprints found in different parts of the world. ... Now, part of this scientific community believes that the global climate is warming because of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, including fossil fuel combustion (gas), industrial and manufacturing processes, and changes in land use, such as destruction of the rain forest. ...

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Avery also explains that "heat in the atmosphere is the fuel that leads to stormy weather," and "weather disasters are occurring with greater intensity and frequency around the world." ... So, it is clear that this fuel in the atmosphere is the cause of human activities such as gas emissions and other pollutants which lead to the heated atmosphere and hurricanes. ... Each time a fuel is burned in a combustion process, some type of pollutant is released into the air, and ruin ozone layer, which protects the Earth from radiation. ... Another major pollutant is fuel oil, which enters oc...

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It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that global warming is to an imminent and inevitable extermination. Over the past two decades, scientists have been working arduously in search of answers of climatic change and other nature-based phenomenon instead of finding a way to prevent...

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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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Global warming is primarily caused by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, large population, deforestation, and so on; however, there is no doubt that humans cannot live without Earth, so we should stop damaging it immediately. ...

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A disaster of epic proportions is about to completely change the world, and every human being on the planet will be effected. This fast-approaching catastrophe has nothing to do with impending wars or rising tensions between countries. The oncoming disaster is global warming, and it threatens to cha...

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