"Since the 1800s, societies have burned fossil fuel like oil, coal, and natural gas. Burning these fossil fuels will also give off carbon dioxide. ... The process of using fossil fuel, agriculture, and deforestation produces carbon dioxide. ... If fossil fuel, agriculture, and deforestation are really affecting the planet, then should people eliminate fossil fuel from their lives? ... One alternative to generate power instead of burning fossil fuel is hydropower. ...

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Beach nourishment is an effective coastal protection measure. Beach nourishment involves replacing sand lost through erosion by adding fresh sand brought from another beach or dredged from the sea floor. This method is capable of transforming a narrow, eroded coast into a wide, sandy beach that can ...

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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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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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Executive Summary With the increasing energy demand, shortening fossil fuel sources in the US and globally, and the rising environmental concerns and greenhouse gas emissions, sustainability becomes the critical principle and challenge in the society. ... Our current society struggles from fossil fuel shortage and pollution, which call for explorations of different types of energy and multiple ways to produce clean energy for daily and industrial uses. ... The consumption of energy accounted for 88% of fossil fuels, including 35% oil, 29% coal and 24% natural gas. Fossil fuels were reported to...

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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 use of fossil fuels and internal combustion engines were the catalyst for exponential rates of social, economic, and technological growth. ... "Human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels, are increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG's). ... Because of the large amount of fossil fuels being burned today, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have grown from about 280 parts per million in 1900, to over 370 parts per million in 1998. ... At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Washington promised to reduce fossil fuel emissions to 1990 levels ...

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The theory behind this effect is that human emissions of certain gases, namely CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels, Methane from agriculture, nitrous oxide (NO2) from agriculture and fossil fuel burning, and Fluorocarbons from refrigeration and industrial applications, are acting to cause the world climate to become warmer by causing a positive feedback cycle. ...

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Greenhouse gases(like carbon dioxide) are most often created as a result of burning fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and oil. ... In Alberta, the province that is most vulnerable to the changes that the ratification of the accord will bring is so because they rely almost completely of fossil fuels to produce their energy. ...

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Before humans started burning fossil fuels, the earth was at a steady pace with temperature. ... As stated before, humans burning fossil fuels is the cause of global warming because of a process known as the Greenhouse Effect. ...

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These greenhouse gases result from human activities like fossil fuel burning, and deforestation. ... The various causes ranged from climate to fuels. ... Carbon dioxide and fossil fuel are at high levels. ...

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"In the face of opposition from a strong fossil fuel lobby, he (Chrétien) moved forward with the long term interests of Canada and the globe in mind-, said Jennifer Morgan, director of the World Wild Life Fund referring to Chrétien's victory. ...

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