This is caused primarily by increases in "greenhouse " gases such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2). ... Global warming is the increased heat trapped in the earth's atmosphere resulting from excess greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2). ... For decades, greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide have been increasing in the atmosphere. ... For example: In terms of historical emissions, developed countries account for roughly 80% of the carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere to date. ... Annually, more than 60 per cent of global industrial carbon dioxide emissions originate in industrialized...

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The change in temperature is associated with increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly carbon dioxide. ... Strong evidence shows increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. ... Forest trees have the ability to slow the rate of climate warming by absorbing the heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (Jackson, 2008). ... This, in turn, causes increased warming and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. ... There is also the potential to capture the carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuels and store it underground-a proc...

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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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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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Carbon dioxide is the largest greenhouse gas followed by methane and nitrous oxide. Carbon dioxide accounts for three fourths of the predicted increase in the greenhouse effect. There are also many natural processes, such as volcanic eruptions, the respiration of animals, which breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, and the burning or decay of organic matter, such as plants that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. ... And if more cities would replace coal burning electric plants with wind turbines this would reduce enormous amounts of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosph...

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The predominant belief behind the idea is that human activity and toxic gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, have increased exponentially since the Industrial Revolution. ... 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 emissi...

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The main green house gas carbon dioxide (CO2) has continued to increase from its preindustrial concentration of approximately 278ppm to over 391ppm in September 2012 (IPPC, 2007). ... The main concern about permafrost is that when it melts, the large quantity of carbon it contains is sent back to the atmosphere as methane and carbon dioxide, also there is presence of a frozen compound called clathrates beneath the permafrost and it may be destabilized and will ultimately result in the release of methane and carbon dioxide, the melting is an irreversible ecological landslide a vicious circular ...

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The four pollutants consist of carbon monoxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide. Carbon monoxide which is released from cars and furnaces can be the most deadly out of all four pollutants. ... Some of the homes in my development have installed the solar panels and say that it was a great investment so the idea of getting a system is not far off; 4) I will increase the amount of times I car pool, ride a bike or take a run which will cut back on gas fumes given off by my car because this gives off nitrous oxide which is toxic to the lungs and contributes to the increase in ozone, carbo...

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Another important fact is that trees, through photosynthesis, clean the earth's carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere. ... According to Norman Myers, an expert on environment and development for the World Wildlife Fund, "The earth constantly maintains 700 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. ... It also has been predicted that by the year 2020, the emissions of carbon dioxide could see a 5 billion metric ton increase and carbon dioxide would be released at 10.21 billion metric tons annually. The burning of these rainforests doesn't only add to the ...

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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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China is the biggest producer, consumer and importer of coal and carbon dioxide emissions in the world now. ... China should implement a carbon tax to help reduce to CO2 production, and show other countries success to implement carbon tax to reduce the CO2 emission. ... There are two sided to effects the carbon tax. ... In the research, carbon tax did not reduce the consumption of fossil fuel and natural gas cause the carbon tax rate lower. ... On the other hand, because carbon tax had been internalized by the enterprises as part of energy costs, such as in Netherlands, after implement the car...

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Lastly, my paper will give an argument that the Obama's administration's support for a market-based approach to reducing carbon-based consumption to reduce the overall level of carbon-based emissions. ... 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. ... The two climate policies are the implementation of a carbon tax on fossil fuels and the establishment of a market-...

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There are many gases in this so-called "greenhouse," such as methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. The heaviest gas that makes a big portion of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide. ... "Unlike other air pollutants, carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming are so ubiquitous that the EPA raised the law's threshold level requiring a permit," said Richard Wolf (1). Environmental Protection Agency decision to make a change in the threshold levels would help regulate carbon dioxide emission and help decrease global warming, which is ve...

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That the vehicles produce smoke consisting of largely carbon dioxide (CO2) is widely known to the world, and its adverse effects to the environment are very critical. When there is more and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it surely will result in the global warming because of the rising temperature that is caused by the "greenhouse" effect. The greenhouse effect is one of the greenhouse gases that result from carbon dioxide, and it acts as a blanket covering the earth to trap the temperature at the highest degree. ... If Cambodia is covered in poor air quality the air fill...

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The most common and harmful greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide, or CO2. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are responsible for the many growing holes in the ozone layer. ... True long-term thinking is how your individual actions affect the future of mankind as a whole, and the many generations to come that will have to live with your carbon footprint and many other negative impacts. ...

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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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So, by burning biomass fuels we release no more carbon dioxide than would have been produced in any case by natural processes such as crop and plant decay. ... Carbon tax is a form of pollution tax. ... The primary purpose of carbon tax is to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The tax charges a fee on fossil fuels based on how much carbon they emit when burned. A carbon tax is the most efficient means to instill crucial price signals that spur carbon reducing investment. ...

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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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Human activity has pushed atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to more than 30 percent above pre-industrial levels. ... Varying Carbon Emissions between nations: The last 100 years' cumulative emissions are a meaningful indicator of relative contributions of different countries. 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. ... Most current carbon emissions originate from 20 or so countries that are either rich, highly populated, or both, w...

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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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The warming or "Greenhouse effect" we are now experiencing is a result of carbon dioxide we have dumped into the air. ... In general, air pollution and global warming results from pouring hundreds of millions of tons of gases and participates into the atmosphere including the major greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane (CH4), the halocarbons (CFCs) and nitrous oxide. ... This pollutant forms when moisture in the air combines with nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide released by automobiles, by factories, and by power plants that burn coal or oil. ... Krakatoa) and the ice-core record s...

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The carbon dioxide concentration has increased by more than 30% since 1750 (Alley, Richard, 2000, p.13). ... Methane is more potent in bringing about global warming as compared to carbon IV oxide. ... This can be done by way of reducing the carbon IV oxide emissions. One way that this can be effected is by imposing a universal carbon legislation which would require that the firms producing carbon IV oxide be subjected to a high carbon tax. The carbon tax would also apply to the firms which intent to indulge in carbon IV oxide emitting business. ...

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Human activity has pushed atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to more than 30 percent above pre-industrial levels. ... Varying Carbon Emissions between nations: The last 100 years' cumulative emissions are a meaningful indicator of relative contributions of different countries. 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. ... Most current carbon emissions originate from 20 or so countries that are either rich, highly populated, or both, w...

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(a) Global Warming: Deforestation in developing countries accounts for between 7 and 31 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, which cause climate change. ... Initial concern about extinction of species has been joined by alarms about possible future global warming caused by atmospheric accumulation of greenhouse gases'' such as the carbon dioxide released by deforestation. ...

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