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- Not at all. What about smog, mountaintop coal removal, coal sludge spills, water, traffic, ecological depletion, loss of bio-diversity, oil independence, saving money, happiness, etc.
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A major player in the controversy is the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. (See carbon dioxide graph.) Plants use carbon dioxide and give off oxygen as a "waste product." Animals, on the other hand, use this discarded oxygen in respiration and
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Industrial agriculture is a major contributor to global warming, producing a substantial amount of the world’s emissions of heat-trapping gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Heavy use of fossil fuel-based nitrogen fertilizer is a
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This isn’t the first time Hindustan Times has negatively influenced the Indian public on climate change front. I consider deliberate omission of an important global event from its reporting as a negative influence. There are many many examples of
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The conventional ozone depleting refrigerants, CFCs and HCFCs, and the new refrigerants, HFCs, all contribute to global warming. CFCs, which haven't been manufactured since 1995, contribute three to 10 times (varies according to type of CFC) as
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Head of Geography, Radley College taps into a vast array of websites to help students judge "These floods and gales; it must be global warming!" my Year 10 class proclaim as they scan the latest press cuttings. Geography and science teachers have
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It's very complex. Atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuels has increased since the 1750s and especially since 1945. Global temperatures have increased during the same period. However, there isn't a simple, one-to-one relationship
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Yes. In 2005, a study jointly supported by the U.S. departments of Energy and Agriculture examined whether land resources in the United States are sufficient to sustain production of over 1 billion dry tons of biomass annually, enough to displace 30%
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Air pollution occurs when the air contains gases, dust, fumes or odor in harmful amounts—aerosols are a subset of air pollution that refers to the tiny particles suspended everywhere in our atmosphere. These particles can be both solid and liquid
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For many years now there has been much talk about the climate change global warming is expected to cause. The colored text above will take you to see some of the basic facts.
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