... can we do about it? Carbon monoxide is the result of incomplete combustion of carbon containing materials, found in motor vehicles. It has the ability to react with other naturally occurring gasses in the atmosphere to form the most commonly known greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. The greenhouse effect is the ... term referring to the suns heat being trapped within our atmosphere by being absorbed by greenhouse gasses just like carbon dioxide. Although it is a naturally occurring gas, human activities are increasing its concentration thereby accelerating the rate of climate change ... in s...

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... beneficial factors to promote public transportation in Cambodia is that it helps prevent the climate change from occurring in a very fast pace. 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 ... 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 tempe...

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... different toxins that most are not even aware of. One main concern is the hydrocarbons that engines produce. Another production of cars is carbon dioxide; many do not realize the long term affects that CO2 can incur. Finally, a third hydrocarbon pollutant transpires through fuel evaporation in ... and it complicating respiratory problems. Hydrocarbons aren't the only pollutants released through car exhaust. Two more pollutants released through car exhaust are carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide. The first reduces the flow of oxygen to the bloodstream, and could harm people with heart dis...

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... and pollution are all causes of Capitalist companies taking more from the earth then it can provide. FACTS: 1.6 Gigatonnes of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere annually by industries burning fossil fuels adding to the problem of Global Warming. Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have risen by twenty-five percent over the past 1,000 years and 85% of this increase occurred during the industrial ... revolution. This increase is still occurring due to Capitalists dumping their wastes into the air and being wasteful in burning fossil fuels. The carbon dioxide level is est...

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... cars run of fossil fuels such as diesel and gasoline and produce 25% to 75% of the chemicals that pollute the air. Fossil fuels release hydrocarbons like carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide when they are combusted. "Carbon dioxide accounts for over 80% of the total greenhouse emissions in the United States."" (www.transportation.ani.gov) Hydrocarbons are causing the ozone to deplete and global warming ... ...

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... the internal combustion engine, or ICE, is due strictly to one concern, air quality. The world's population is booming and cars are polluting the world's cities, dumping large amounts of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and cons! uming vast quantities of petroleum (Sperling 1995). Now is the time for the solution, the electric car. Development of ... are responsible for about half of all urban air pollution. Today's vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel fuels emit the vast majority of carbon monoxide, half of the hydrocarbon and nitrogen ...

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... done by the Environmental Defense shows that if a non-hybrid Honda Civic and a hybrid Honda Civic are both driven 12,500 miles a year, the hybrid produces 2,000 lbs less carbon dioxide, 60 lbs less carbon monoxide, 7 lbs less nitrogen oxides, and 3 lbs less hydrocarbons. Not to mention that the hybrid consumes over 100 gallons less fuel; the hybrid consumes 263 gallons, the non ... ...

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... and oxygen all around us. Still searching which way is best to produce and store hydrogen. The emissions from the I.C.E. produce many by-products including hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur oxide, carbon dioxide, and particulates can cause health problems and add to the greenhouse effect. They by product of the hydrogen fuel cell is water. We have the technology to make nal ... ...

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... lead to the bird dying of hypothermia. Gas-running cars also may harm human life because the pollutants will clog up the air. Cars produce about 350 million tons of carbon dioxide each year. Gas-running cars put arctic life, sea life, and human life at risk. Electric vehicles don't produce any pollutants. On top of that, the electric batteries recycle well ... ...

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... . Pollution controls devices for cars have also been developed. For example, catalytic systems were installed in many car exhaust systems in the 1980s. These devices change dangerous gases into harmless carbon dioxide and water. They also burn up much of the exhaust with fresh air in a chamber near the exhaust pipe. The car of the future will need new designs which make ... ...

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... cleanest gas car makes. It produces 98% less Hydrocarbons than gas cars. This chemical directly influences asthma. Electric cars also produce 89% less Nitrogen Dioxide, which also influences lung cancer. Electric cars produce only 1% of the Carbon Monoxide gas cars make. The greenhouse effect (also known as global warming) is directly affected by the pollutants our cars make. Scientists predict because of ... ...

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... car culture. "Greenpeace has had a Renault Twingo redesigned so that the car consumes only half as much petrol as the original" (3). In this way, it is possible to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of car traffic. They said, "halving the petrol consumption is feasible as a first step for all cars." Auto-Free D.C. is a grassroots organization working to transform the metropolitan region's transportation ... ...

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... estimated to get 50-66 miles per gallon. Its range is predicted to be about 800 miles on a single tank. Prius? most predominant feature besides cost is that it reduces carbon dioxide emissions almost 50%. Even the army realizes the need for electric vehicles. Their reasons are different but the result is the same. The US army has developed a hybrid as well ... ...

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