There is no longer a balance between the amount of carbon dioxide being added to the air and the amount of carbon dioxide being removed. ... When trees are burned, carbon dioxide is released into the air. ... But deforestation does more than just add carbon dioxide into the air. ... As fewer and fewer trees are left to take up carbon dioxide, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases faster and faster. ... Like other green plants, trees use carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. ...

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There is no longer a balance between the amount of carbon dioxide being added to the air and the amount of carbon dioxide being removed. ... When trees are burned, carbon dioxide is released into the air. ... But deforestation does more than just add carbon dioxide into the air. ... As fewer and fewer trees are left to take up carbon dioxide, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases faster and faster. ... Like other green plants, trees use carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. ...

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Because carbon dioxide "traps sunlight close to the earth, less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means colder weather" (Watson, 1997). ... Still, that does not explain why the carbon dioxide levels fell. ... They believe that algae replaced carbon dioxide with oxygen thus causing a decrease in CO2 (Hughes 1993, pg.15). ... This essentially locked up the Carbon Dioxide so that it could not hold the sun's radiation closer to the earth. By taking away this source of carbon dioxide, the earth began to cool. ...

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It first emerged when scientists noticed the relationship between carbon dioxide, CO2, levels and the climate. ... (Watson 25) The gases consist of carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and ozone. Carbon dioxide, as scientists claim, is the greenhouse gas that is the main factor causing global warming. ... Carbon dioxide levels have also decreased having people think that maybe the temperature and CO2 levels have something in common. ... An option is to remove carbon dioxide gas before it reaches the atmosphere but then the question is "Where to put it?" ...

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It is important to understand that several gases like water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane keep the temperature in the ground at a global average of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. ... Because of Venus's thick carbon dioxide atmosphere the planet's cloud- covered surface is hot enough to melt lead (Bolin 49). ... But the variations in the atmosphere's carbon dioxide is why we have had so many climate changes. In fact, in recent decades there has been a global increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, largely as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. ...

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The atmospheric gases that produce the greenhouse effect include the naturally occurring substances water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3), as well as artificially produced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). 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. Research indicates that carbon dioxide levels in the pre-industrial era were 280 parts per million; today they are 350. ... When tropical forest is cleared for pasture land, there is a...

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While driving, the engine releases about a half a pound of carbon monoxide (CO) into the air. ... At the same time, the gas will also release itself into almost five and a half pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2). ... "Carbon dioxide is produced when any form of carbon or almost any carbon compound is burned Esposito 2 in excess of oxygen" (www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/Glo). ... The effects of driving due to the carbon dioxide problem would cause a return to the ice age. ...

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Carbon dioxide removal sights have been set up to keep the level of carbon dioxide down. A serious of beds is filled with zeolite and it sticks to the carbon dioxide. To clean the bed, heat is applied and the carbon dioxide gets off (Fall 26). ...

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Scientist believe that greenhouse gases which emit carbon dioxide are one of the main cause of Global Warming. ... The main culprit of Global Warming is carbon dioxide also known as CO2. Yearly emissions of "carbon dioxide equivalent " has increased more than 20%, six billion metric tons, since 1990. ...

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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. ... According to the article "Impacts of Global Climate Change," in economics, carbon is the negative externality that costs factories certain amount of money per-unit of pollutants in the form of carbon tax (31). ... Jonathan Harris, Brian Roach, and Anne-Marie Codur expressed that...

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Planets 4 The atmosphere of Venus made up of 98% carbon dioxide and 2% Nitrogen. ... Mars has a very thin atmosphere which is composed of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, water vapor and oxygen. ... The atmosphere of Jupiter contains water, ammonia, methane and carbon. ...

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The study envisions an onsite nuclear power plant, solar panel arrays, and methods for extracting carbon, silicon, aluminum, and other useful materials from the lunar surface. ... Red Dwarfs have cloudy atmospheres with a chemical composition consisting of carbon dioxide, and water would be able to support and stabilize the temperatures in both hemispheres of a tidally locked planet. ...

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In addition, the by-product of humans breathing oxygen is the waste gas carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is what trees and other chlorophyll containing plants found on Earth need to produce breathable oxygen. ...

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The Effects of Global Warming Global Warming will perhaps be, in theory, one of the greatest threats to test the capabilities of mankind. Its effects are predicted to be catastrophic: dramatic climate changes, leading to the melting of the polar ice caps and great rises in sea level. This could...

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This rises the levels of Carbon Monoxide in the air which has the ability to trap heat. ... This is due to the great amounts of carbon monoxide being pumped into the air. ... Excess carbon dioxide is also to blame for global warming. Just as humans, the engines of civilization produce carbon monoxide. ...

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All of these things we do everyday produce greenhouse gases, specifically carbon dioxide, which is the main contributor to global warming and climate change. Individuals are emitting more greenhouse gases into the air than the natural carbon cycle can manage and we don't even notice because it is a part of our everyday life. ... To give good reason for my point that people solely depend on anyone or anything to solve their problems, Pollan states "but in fact it's one of the most powerful things an individual can do- to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduc...

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"These chemicals are called Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS) and include many gases containing chlorine and bromine, such as: chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs, substances containing chlorine, fluorine and carbon), "Halons", used for fire fighting, methyl bromide, used in agriculture... A decrease in phytoplankton growth would reduce the uptake of carbon dioxide by the oceans, thus leaving more CO2 in the atmospheric reservoir. ...

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"These chemicals are called Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS) and include many gases containing chlorine and bromine, such as: chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs, substances containing chlorine, fluorine and carbon), "Halons", used for fire fighting, methyl bromide, used in agriculture... A decrease in phytoplankton growth would reduce the uptake of carbon dioxide by the oceans, thus leaving more CO2 in the atmospheric reservoir. ...

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The atmosphere will hold a substantial excess amounts of carbon dioxide. ... As the helium core contracts under gravity, it will eventually reach the temperatures and densities needed to fuse three helium nuclei into a carbon nucleus. ... Since the sun is not very massive compared to other stars, it will never get hot enough in the center to produce nuclei much heavier than carbon and oxygen. ...

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All of these things we do everyday produce greenhouse gases, specifically carbon dioxide, which is the main contributor to global warming and climate change. Individuals are emitting more greenhouse gases into the air than the natural carbon cycle can manage and we don't even notice because it is a part of our everyday lives. ... To give good reason for my point that people solely depend on anyone or anything to solve their problems, Pollan states "but in fact it's one of the most powerful things an individual can do- to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to...

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The decisions an events of the past in the United States has impacted and molded everything that we deal with today. With that said one could gather that the events and decisions made in the present time will be what the future generations will be studying and coping with in years to come. While ...

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Table of Contents List of Figures iii Abstract...iv Introduction..1 Methods for Constructing a Lunar Base...1 How to Keep the Colonists Alive.3 How to Keep the Colonists Healthy.4 How to Make the Colony Self-sustaining6 Conclusion7 Works Cited..8 List of Figures Figure 1 Artist Rendering of a Lun...

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Russia is planning on drilling a 35 million year old lake in the middle of the Antarctica. This lake, Lake Vostok, is 670 meters deep or roughly 2198 feet deep and each liter or water contains approximately 2.5 liters of compressed air (Space Daily, Aug. 2003), now why is this, a good idea? This l...

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