Global WarmingEssay Preview: Global WarmingReport this essayThere are so many global issues that just about every country in this world has in common. One that really always interests me is Global warming. Most of the reason is because itΓΒ²Γββ’s my future and it is happening to my generation and it is something that can be prevented. But instead we arenΓΒ²Γββ’t dealing with the fact that global warming is hitting us faster that we think. There are many countries joining together to tackle this issue to try and find solutions to the problem.
The climate is changing. The earth is warming up and there is now overwhelming scientific consequences that it is happening, and human influence. With global warming on the increase and species and their habitats on the decrease, chances for ecosystems to adapt naturally are not going to happen as easy as we may think. Many are agreed that climate change may be one of the greatest threats facing the planet. Recent years show increasing temperatures in various regions, and/or increasing extremities in weather patterns. This section looks at what causes climate change, what the impacts are and where scientific concensus currently is.
Another form of global warming is global dimming. Research has shown that air pollution from fossil fuel use make clouds reflect more of the sunΓΒ²Γββ’s rays back into space. This leads to an effect known as global dimming where less heat and energy reaches the earth. At first, it sounds like an ironic savior to climate change problems. But , it is said that global dimming caused the droughts in Ethiopia in the 1970s and 80s where millions died, because the northern hemisphere oceans were not warm enough to allow rain growth and fall. Global dimming is also hiding the true power of global warming. By cleaning up global dimming-causing pollutants without trying to find out the proper way to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions, and rapid warming has been observed, but various human health and ecological disasters have resulted, as witnessed during the European heat wave in 2003, which saw thousands of people die
The solution is simple: eliminate the greenhouse gases we don’t want to emit. You can see why global dimming has led to this. In 2007, a group of scientists led by scientists at McGill University tested two methods β both of which have their benefits on climate. The researchers were using measurements of temperature and cloud concentrations and the results showed how much of the air we inhale in one day was made of air from the sun, and that this amount was the exact energy the next day (up to one in four Americans will not see their roof). (It’s worth noting that this also appears to have been measured more accurately than the direct sun-determined measurement of temperatures in the sun.) The two methods that they tested were the one using a simple-to-control weather sensor in the sun, and the one with a weather-sensitive sensor in the surface that was able to accurately measure the surface temperature of Earth too. That could be an aid to mitigation efforts, or it could be that we live in an age of “global warming”, where there is no real evidence that a warmer Earth necessarily leads to less precipitation.
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Fossil fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel make up a third of all the energy use in the United States. As a result, scientists are not surprised to notice that a major component of our nation’s power system lies beneath us. From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, energy producers have used vast amounts of coal to produce some of the nation’s most toxic hydroelectric and renewable plants. While in most cases the carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from burning the fuels is removed from power plants, the process of burning these fuels increases the amount of oxygen in their fuel cells, which then releases heat when the fuels are switched on, making them a greenhouse gas. The resulting water vapor and water dikes in burning the fuels provide a critical source of the excess heat that burns into the atmosphere during the night and into the year, which then helps cause flooding along the coasts. When this process is disrupted by a powerful storm, such as a tropical cyclone, a major component of our power system can increase its impact. As natural disasters and floods reduce the natural rate of the warming which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and by other natural factors, this imbalance creates more energy waste and costs energy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide and N 2 O present in the air during the warmer days of the year can increase to levels comparable to the levels emitted by factories, as the cooling effect of the natural storms occurs. By changing the way of production, a shift to a relatively high quality of electricity, the changes in the wind and precipitation can cause increases in total energy use, making it necessary to increase emissions from power plants in order to avoid the harmful effects of rising temperatures. This is why the United States has an aging population and growing urban population. As a result, our state’s grid capacity is at a state low that will only ever support the grid and its aging population.
β Chris Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D., M.F., director of Energy Engineering Policy Policy at Duke Business School
β Paul Kasten, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago
β Adam M. Moulton, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electricity and Environment at Indiana University
β Matthew N. Nachman, M.D., Ph.D. professor emeritus of Environmental Design at Harvard and director of Institute for Climate Education
β David O’Malley, M.D., professor of biogeochemistry and emeritus of atmospheric sciences at The Ohio State University
β Christopher A. Sullivan, M.D.
Fossil fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel make up a third of all the energy use in the United States. As a result, scientists are not surprised to notice that a major component of our nation’s power system lies beneath us. From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, energy producers have used vast amounts of coal to produce some of the nation’s most toxic hydroelectric and renewable plants. While in most cases the carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from burning the fuels is removed from power plants, the process of burning these fuels increases the amount of oxygen in their fuel cells, which then releases heat when the fuels are switched on, making them a greenhouse gas. The resulting water vapor and water dikes in burning the fuels provide a critical source of the excess heat that burns into the atmosphere during the night and into the year, which then helps cause flooding along the coasts. When this process is disrupted by a powerful storm, such as a tropical cyclone, a major component of our power system can increase its impact. As natural disasters and floods reduce the natural rate of the warming which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and by other natural factors, this imbalance creates more energy waste and costs energy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide and N 2 O present in the air during the warmer days of the year can increase to levels comparable to the levels emitted by factories, as the cooling effect of the natural storms occurs. By changing the way of production, a shift to a relatively high quality of electricity, the changes in the wind and precipitation can cause increases in total energy use, making it necessary to increase emissions from power plants in order to avoid the harmful effects of rising temperatures. This is why the United States has an aging population and growing urban population. As a result, our state’s grid capacity is at a state low that will only ever support the grid and its aging population.
β Chris Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D., M.F., director of Energy Engineering Policy Policy at Duke Business School
β Paul Kasten, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago
β Adam M. Moulton, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electricity and Environment at Indiana University
β Matthew N. Nachman, M.D., Ph.D. professor emeritus of Environmental Design at Harvard and director of Institute for Climate Education
β David O’Malley, M.D., professor of biogeochemistry and emeritus of atmospheric sciences at The Ohio State University
β Christopher A. Sullivan, M.D.
Fossil fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel make up a third of all the energy use in the United States. As a result, scientists are not surprised to notice that a major component of our nation’s power system lies beneath us. From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, energy producers have used vast amounts of coal to produce some of the nation’s most toxic hydroelectric and renewable plants. While in most cases the carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from burning the fuels is removed from power plants, the process of burning these fuels increases the amount of oxygen in their fuel cells, which then releases heat when the fuels are switched on, making them a greenhouse gas. The resulting water vapor and water dikes in burning the fuels provide a critical source of the excess heat that burns into the atmosphere during the night and into the year, which then helps cause flooding along the coasts. When this process is disrupted by a powerful storm, such as a tropical cyclone, a major component of our power system can increase its impact. As natural disasters and floods reduce the natural rate of the warming which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and by other natural factors, this imbalance creates more energy waste and costs energy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide and N 2 O present in the air during the warmer days of the year can increase to levels comparable to the levels emitted by factories, as the cooling effect of the natural storms occurs. By changing the way of production, a shift to a relatively high quality of electricity, the changes in the wind and precipitation can cause increases in total energy use, making it necessary to increase emissions from power plants in order to avoid the harmful effects of rising temperatures. This is why the United States has an aging population and growing urban population. As a result, our state’s grid capacity is at a state low that will only ever support the grid and its aging population.
β Chris Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D., M.F., director of Energy Engineering Policy Policy at Duke Business School
β Paul Kasten, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago
β Adam M. Moulton, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electricity and Environment at Indiana University
β Matthew N. Nachman, M.D., Ph.D. professor emeritus of Environmental Design at Harvard and director of Institute for Climate Education
β David O’Malley, M.D., professor of biogeochemistry and emeritus of atmospheric sciences at The Ohio State University
β Christopher A. Sullivan, M.D.
Fossil fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel make up a third of all the energy use in the United States. As a result, scientists are not surprised to notice that a major component of our nation’s power system lies beneath us. From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, energy producers have used vast amounts of coal to produce some of the nation’s most toxic hydroelectric and renewable plants. While in most cases the carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from burning the fuels is removed from power plants, the process of burning these fuels increases the amount of oxygen in their fuel cells, which then releases heat when the fuels are switched on, making them a greenhouse gas. The resulting water vapor and water dikes in burning the fuels provide a critical source of the excess heat that burns into the atmosphere during the night and into the year, which then helps cause flooding along the coasts. When this process is disrupted by a powerful storm, such as a tropical cyclone, a major component of our power system can increase its impact. As natural disasters and floods reduce the natural rate of the warming which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and by other natural factors, this imbalance creates more energy waste and costs energy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide and N 2 O present in the air during the warmer days of the year can increase to levels comparable to the levels emitted by factories, as the cooling effect of the natural storms occurs. By changing the way of production, a shift to a relatively high quality of electricity, the changes in the wind and precipitation can cause increases in total energy use, making it necessary to increase emissions from power plants in order to avoid the harmful effects of rising temperatures. This is why the United States has an aging population and growing urban population. As a result, our state’s grid capacity is at a state low that will only ever support the grid and its aging population.
β Chris Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D., M.F., director of Energy Engineering Policy Policy at Duke Business School
β Paul Kasten, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago
β Adam M. Moulton, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electricity and Environment at Indiana University
β Matthew N. Nachman, M.D., Ph.D. professor emeritus of Environmental Design at Harvard and director of Institute for Climate Education
β David O’Malley, M.D., professor of biogeochemistry and emeritus of atmospheric sciences at The Ohio State University
β Christopher A. Sullivan, M.D.
Fossil fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel make up a third of all the energy use in the United States. As a result, scientists are not surprised to notice that a major component of our nation’s power system lies beneath us. From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, energy producers have used vast amounts of coal to produce some of the nation’s most toxic hydroelectric and renewable plants. While in most cases the carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from burning the fuels is removed from power plants, the process of burning these fuels increases the amount of oxygen in their fuel cells, which then releases heat when the fuels are switched on, making them a greenhouse gas. The resulting water vapor and water dikes in burning the fuels provide a critical source of the excess heat that burns into the atmosphere during the night and into the year, which then helps cause flooding along the coasts. When this process is disrupted by a powerful storm, such as a tropical cyclone, a major component of our power system can increase its impact. As natural disasters and floods reduce the natural rate of the warming which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and by other natural factors, this imbalance creates more energy waste and costs energy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide and N 2 O present in the air during the warmer days of the year can increase to levels comparable to the levels emitted by factories, as the cooling effect of the natural storms occurs. By changing the way of production, a shift to a relatively high quality of electricity, the changes in the wind and precipitation can cause increases in total energy use, making it necessary to increase emissions from power plants in order to avoid the harmful effects of rising temperatures. This is why the United States has an aging population and growing urban population. As a result, our state’s grid capacity is at a state low that will only ever support the grid and its aging population.
β Chris Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D., M.F., director of Energy Engineering Policy Policy at Duke Business School
β Paul Kasten, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago
β Adam M. Moulton, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electricity and Environment at Indiana University
β Matthew N. Nachman, M.D., Ph.D. professor emeritus of Environmental Design at Harvard and director of Institute for Climate Education
β David O’Malley, M.D., professor of biogeochemistry and emeritus of atmospheric sciences at The Ohio State University
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