... on a steady march towards its death. Each year we do more and more to destroy our environment. One huge component to this destruction is the emission of greenhouse gases, mainly, carbon dioxide. Greenhouse gases are gases that when present in our atmosphere, trap the heat of the sun and progressively make earth warmer and warmer. This is leading to long term problems ... be equal to planting 62,000,000 trees and allowing them to grow for 10 years. Talk about an impact! Now you may be asking, what happens to all this carbon dioxide? Well, it is captured post combustion, or gasification, ...

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... total amount of greenhouse gases, produced to directly and indirectly support human actions, and activities. Usually a carbon foot print is calculated for most common used fuels for the year. Also expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2); also known to be the amounts of carbon dioxide and other compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, or group. ... Keywords: carbon footprints, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, fuels. The Carbon footprints that are used in my daily life are collected as a whole from my ... family of six. During my resea...

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... consumption of fossil fuel has increased dramatically. The world now burns at least five billion tons of fossil fuel each year. As this carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels enters the atmosphere, some of it is taken up by photosynthesizing plants, and the oceans absorb some. But because ... , motorcycles, and lawnmowers all burn gasoline, which is extracted from oil. Energy is one of the quickest ways to reduce the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If we really want to control the greenhouse effect and global warming, then people everywhere must learn to use energy more .....

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... consumption of fossil fuel has increased dramatically. The world now burns at least five billion tons of fossil fuel each year. As this carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels enters the atmosphere, some of it is taken up by photosynthesizing plants, and the oceans absorb some. But because ... , motorcycles, and lawnmowers all burn gasoline, which is extracted from oil. Energy is one of the quickest ways to reduce the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If we really want to control the greenhouse effect and global warming, then people everywhere must learn to use energy more .....

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... its many forms among the biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and geosphere. There are four main reservoirs of stored carbon in the carbon cycle; namely (1) as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; (2) as organic compounds in living or recently dead organisms; (3) as dissolved carbon dioxide in the oceans and other bodies of water; (4) and as calcium carbonate in limestone and in buried organic matter (e.g. ... by microbes in the absence of oxygen). The coal is then burned to produce electricity, and thus the carbon is returned to carbon dioxide in the air. Aquatic and marine plants absorb dissol...

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... are burned. Emissions from incinerators, waste treatment plants, electric power plants, factories, household furnaces, cars and buses are all contributors to this problem. (Stegar/Bowermaster 1990) Carbon dioxide is recovered from the atmosphere in photosynthesis and reused. After excretion, waste products are broken down and reconstituted as foods in the soil. Water, minerals and other chemicals ... now occur at two to three times the rate the world's oceans and forests can absorb them - leading to steady increases in atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide. Glob...

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... change (Keller, 1999). The earth's climate is predicted to change because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases - primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The heat-trapping property of these gases is undisputed. Although uncertainty exists about exactly how earth's climate responds to these gases, global temperatures are ... Geographic, 1990). Some scientists do not believe this. Over 17,000 scientists have signed a petition saying, in part, "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human relea...

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... change (Keller, 1999). The earth's climate is predicted to change because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases - primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The heat-trapping property of these gases is undisputed. Although uncertainty exists about exactly how earth's climate responds to these gases, global temperatures are ... Geographic, 1990). Some scientists do not believe this. Over 17,000 scientists have signed a petition saying, in part, "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human relea...

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... , which dissolve in the rainwater to form various acids. Major contributing gases for acid rain are sulfur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon dioxide (CO2) and chlorine (CI2). The following reactions show the acid formation due to these gases (Cherrington, Brett; 1996): Sulfur dioxide reacts with water to form sulfuric acid (SO42-). Oxides of nitrogen react with water to form nitric ... to form Hydrochloric acid (CI-). Some other gases that are being released in the air are carbon dioxide, carbon monoxides, chlorofluorocarbons, hazardous air pollutants, lead, nitrogen oxides...

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... inches has resulted from the expansion of the ocean water as a result of the warmer ocean temperatures. Scientists believe that the increase in greenhouse gas concentration, especially of carbon dioxide, is being caused by the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activities. Fossil fuels burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories are ... responsible for about 98% of the total U.S. emission of carbon dioxide, 24% of the methane emissions and 18% of nitrous oxide emissions. Also contributing a significant share of emissions is the increase in agric...

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... inches has resulted from the expansion of the ocean water as a result of the warmer ocean temperatures. Scientists believe that the increase in greenhouse gas concentration, especially of carbon dioxide, is being caused by the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activities. Fossil fuels burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories are ... responsible for about 98% of the total U.S. emission of carbon dioxide, 24% of the methane emissions and 18% of nitrous oxide emissions. Also contributing a significant share of emissions is the increase in agric...

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... inches has resulted from the expansion of the ocean water as a result of the warmer ocean temperatures. Scientists believe that the increase in greenhouse gas concentration, especially of carbon dioxide, is being caused by the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activities. Fossil fuels burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories are ... responsible for about 98% of the total U.S. emission of carbon dioxide, 24% of the methane emissions and 18% of nitrous oxide emissions. Also contributing a significant share of emissions is the increase in agric...

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... inches has resulted from the expansion of the ocean water as a result of the warmer ocean temperatures. Scientists believe that the increase in greenhouse gas concentration, especially of carbon dioxide, is being caused by the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activities. Fossil fuels burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories are ... responsible for about 98% of the total U.S. emission of carbon dioxide, 24% of the methane emissions and 18% of nitrous oxide emissions. Also contributing a significant share of emissions is the increase in agric...

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... the atmosphere when they burn fossil fuels, solid wastes, drive vehicles, and generate electricity by the burning of coal. At the same time, the number of trees available to absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis has greatly reduced by deforestation, the long-term destruction of forests by many cutting of trees for lumber or to clear land for agricultural activities. The earth warming ... of them turn it generates enough electricity to power a small city. And if more cities would replace coal burning electric plants with wind turbines this would reduce enormous amounts of carbon d...

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... global warming is the greenhouse effect applied to the entire atmosphere and the greenhouse effect basically means how gases in an atmosphere affect the way that a closed system retains heat. Carbon dioxide plays a significant role in the greenhouse effect and global warming in a sense that plants need CO2 to survive. Also a great amount of CO2 is absorbed through natural processes. For ... a process or activity through which the gas is released into the atmosphere. Both natural processes and human activities release greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere when ...

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... of the amount of greenhouse gases humans are pouring into the atmosphere. Human activities have altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Much of the scientific community believe that these gases are causing unnatural climate warming that could have unimaginable effects on life (Schnieder, 21 ... of livestock. Nitrous oxide is emitted during agricultural and industrial activities. Greenhouse gas absorbs heat in the atmosphere. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, atmospheri...

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... C, making it nearly unsuitable for us to survive. Since the Industrial Revolution, there has been a significant increase in the emission of greenhouse gases, the majority of which is carbon dioxide. Chlorofluorocarbon and sulfur hexafluoride, other greenhouse gases, were introduced into the atmosphere for the first time following the Industrial Revolution. With this increase of greenhouse gases, the balance of heat ... is shattered. Now greater amounts of heat are kept in the atmosphere causing the temperature near earth's surface to rise in a phenomenon known as global warming. The g...

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... air. The majority of these substances are released by the rigs on which the drilling equipment is based . These rigs release high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It has been estimated that "A single offshore rig emits the same quantity of air pollution as 7000 cars driving 50 miles ... per day." Similarly, oil tankers, which are used to transport the extracted oil from the rig to shore, also contribute to carbon dioxide emissions. The build up of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere has been linked to global warming . Due to the high consumption of crude oil, offshore drilli...

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... come in two forms, wet and dry. Wet may be in a state of fog, snow, or rain. Dry refers to acidic gases and particles. The EPA has confirmed that sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen are the major causes of these hazardous depositions. All of these chemicals come from factories, cars and electricity. The very root of the process begins at factories that ... rain also depends on the over-usage of everyday human needs such as transportation and electric appliances. When these fuels are released into the air they are transformed into sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen. On...

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... . Methane for example is more dangerous then others. Methane (C3H8) has been proven to be around ten times worse as a greenhouse gas then carbon dioxide (CO2). According to the royal society of science the concentration of CO2 has gone up by 90 parts per million (PPM) since the 1800's. ... Scientists have also tested air bubbles trapped deep in the Artic and Antarctic to find concentrations of carbon dioxide. The above picture shows the basic carbon cycle. Carbon is produced as gas from animals, decomposing or by means of respiration, also from industry. The gas that is produced is ... ...

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... By driving cars, using electricity for different kind of machines or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, those are the reasons that release carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gases into the atmosphere. As today the technology is very advanced, there was a lot of work to reach to this ... point, and there many different factories produce many things for us we need. During the years of the technology, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has incised lots than before. Changes of temperature on Earth is a threat to our health. High temperatures allow viruses to spread o...

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... causes global warming, but the fact is global warming is the result of burning fossil fuels, coal, and oil that release carbon dioxide. Another misconception is nuclear power causes climate change. Nuclear power actually reduces emissions of carbon dioxide when used in place of coal. Some believe that global warming means that it will become warmer all over. The name is ... scientists believe global warming is a process underway and that it is human-induced. (Misty Thompson). The greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. These gases occur naturally. The Earth "uses...

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... causes global warming, but the fact is global warming is the result of burning fossil fuels, coal, and oil that release carbon dioxide. Another misconception is nuclear power causes climate change. Nuclear power actually reduces emissions of carbon dioxide when used in place of coal. Some believe that global warming means that it will become warmer all over. The name is ... scientists believe global warming is a process underway and that it is human-induced. (Misty Thompson). The greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. These gases occur naturally. The Earth "uses...

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... exhausts or from the evaporation of fuels inn petrochemical plants or petrol stations. The formation of secondary pollutants involves free radicals. The main secondary pollutants are: • Ozone (O ) • Nitrogen dioxide (NO ) • Hydrogen peroxide (H O ) • Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) • Nitric acid (HNO ) • Partially oxidised hydrocarbons Primary and Secondary pollutants produced by motor vehicles Fuels ... + O + heat 2 NO (From Chemistry in action by Michael Freemantle) Sulphur compounds are also present in coal as impurities, like nitrogen compounds they react with oxygen and mak...

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... used to produce energy for automobiles, to provide heat, and fuel industrial manufacturing processes. Global warming is one of the most serious environmental issues related to fossil fuel combustion. Carbon dioxide, being a major by-product of fossil fuel burning is known as a green house gas. Green house gases absorb solar heat reflected off the earth's surface and retain the ... human activities, which add to the level of these natural gases. Rapid industrialization has increased fossil fuel emissions. (Fig.1) Atmosphere Solar Radiation Earth Radiation "This dramatic increase in carbo...

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