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Green House Gases and Air Quality related to global warming 
  • Clean environment  and solutions 

  1. Burning coal produces more air pollution than other fossil fuels

  2. Burning coal produces large amounts of fly ash, a toxic residue

  3. Coalminingproduceslarge amounts of waste

  4. Environmental degradation from large-scale mining operations     

Are biofuels the answer?

In the United States, corn ethanol dominates biofuel

production.

  1.  2000: 1.63 billion gallons   produced

  2.   2012: 13.9 billion gallons produced Mostly used in low-level gasoline blends (up to 10%)

  3.   Flexfuel vehicles can use E85 (85% ethanol)

  4. Brazil is the world’s second-leading ethanol producer

  5. 2012: 5.57 billion gallons

  6. based on the most efficient agricultural technology for sugarcane cultivation in the world

  7. U.S. EPA designated Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an advanced biofuel due to its 61% reduction of total life cycle greenhouse gas emissions                                                                            The Environment and You (2nd Edition), by Norman Christensen and and Lissa Leege. 2016 Pearson.

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Problems

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2014, CO2 accounted for about 80.9% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. Carbon dioxide is naturally present in the atmosphere as part of the Earth's carbon cycle (the natural circulation of carbon among the atmosphere, oceans, soil, plants, and animals). Human activities are altering the carbon cycle–both by adding more CO2 to the atmosphere and by influencing the ability of natural sinks, like forests, to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. While CO2 emissions come from a variety of natural sources, human-related emissions are responsible for the increase that has occurred in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. [1]

1. NRC (2010). Advancing the Science of Climate Change .  National Research Council. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, USA.

 

 

 

 

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  • Recycing for a better environment
  • Switching to renewable enrgy progressively 
  • Wind.
  • Solar.
  • Alternatives to fossil fluels. 
  • water hydropower , tidalpower and wave power.
  • Geothermal.                                                          Norman Christensen and and Lissa Leege. The Environment and You (2nd Edition) 2016 Pearson.
 

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clean planet.

Leed houses

renewable energy

usage of flex fuel and electric and hybrid cars

reforestation

Cause of climate change

 Contacts: Nicholas Hirchert
                    Zardy Chikez
 

Global Warming 101. Perf. National Geographic. National Geographic. National Geographic, n.d. Web. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs>. 

 

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