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Ozone Depletion Ultraviolet Radiation
624 wordsIf all the ice in Antarctica melted, it would raise the level of the world's oceans by over 200 feet (60 meters). The possibility of this happening in the near term is not seriously considered by scientists, for the Antarctic icecap is currently believed to be in equilibrium. However, meteorologists studying the ramifications of global warming and the greenhouse effect expect there to be a decrease in sea levels in the short term -- a matter of decades -- of about 2 millimeters per year. This wi...
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Released Into The Atmosphere Sulfur Dioxide
1,318 wordsEvery thing present in this universe is a part of environment including ourselves. Whether they are animals, living thing, or nonliving things. All of the external factors affecting an organism. These factors may be other living organisms (biotic factors) or nonliving variables (abiotic factors), such as water, soil, climate, light, and oxygen. All interacting biotic and abiotic factors together make up an ecosystem. Organisms and their environment constantly interact, and both are changed by th...
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Parts Per Million Shortness Of Breath
1,183 wordsSmog has been around for a pretty long time, people just knew it as something else. Smog comes from the word smoke and fog, and that's practically what it is. It was a serious problem before, before nature and humans went unharmed in the presence of smog but now it's serious. What does all of this polluted air do to the body? The answer depends on the situation. How long a person is exposed to pollution, the type and concentration, the place, time and day, temperature, weather and more. But one ...
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Greenhouse Gases Global Warming
1,471 wordsGlobal warming is not a myth it is a fact. It has been proven that the temp has gone up in the last 2 decades. Yes, it is possible to stop it and even fix it. At the rate we are going it will be the same as it was in 1980 by 2050. Yes I think that global warming is a fact to be reckoned with. But I agree with both sides because both are right each in their own way. It is proven that the earth has been cooling down over the last 6, 000 years since the Holocene Maximum. That is a fact! But there a...
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Methyl Bromide Uv Radiation
627 wordsOzone is a form of oxygen that is a human-made pollutant in the troposphere but a naturally produced, essential component in the stratosphere, which encircles our planet some 6 to 28 miles above the surface. The stratosphere contains a layer of ozone that shields the surface from much of the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. If ozone was to disappear from the stratosphere Earth would be uninhabitable for most organisms. The primary cause for this substantial ozone loss is a group of com...
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Los Angeles Clean Air
1,210 wordsMany do not know the exact definition of smog or why it is dangerous. Smog is defined in Scott Monds' "Smog, Let's Clear the Air" as the "brownish-yellow haze" found hanging above large cities. Smog is mostly a part of the "ozone gas", which can be harmful when found at ground level. Small amounts of ozone gas can be good, but when mixed with pollutants, it creates the smog (Monds). Nitrogen Dioxide and tiny debris such as soot give smog its distinctive color as well as VOCs or "volatile organic...
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Ground Level Ozone Clean Air Act
1,637 wordsFreedom and the American Dream Since the very creation of the United States it was attracting people with its love of freedom and a chance for equal opportunities for all people. These rights of freedom and opportunities were upholding during the entire history of the country and now sometimes they are being disturbed. In this research paper I am going to talk about the right to safe air quality that is being misled during resent several decades. The waste products from automobiles and the envir...
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Air Pollution And Ozone Part 1
1,750 wordsAir Pollution and Ozone Depletion The year is 2007. The ozone hole over Antarctica has expanded each year and has now become a severe global threat. Sometime in July several hundred large airplanes head out on a dangerous mission over the sunless Antarctic continent. Their goal: to spray 50, 000 tons of ethane into the stratosphere in an attempt to stop the ozone hole from forming as the austral spring approaches. Though it may sound like the plot for a new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, this idea...
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Ozone Molecules Du Pont
579 wordsThe beginning of the CFC (chlorofluorocarbons) era started in 1928, when CFC were invented by a Du Pont chemist. CFC were best known as freon's and became famous as a safe, nonflammable refrigerant. It s invention became a great triumph when Freon took the place of sulfur dioxide or ammonia which was used as the working liquid in refrigerators. It eventually became widely used in automobile air conditioners and nontoxic propellants in aerosol cans. It s insulating properties also was used for bl...
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Environmental Protection Agency Ground Level Ozone
1,487 wordsDeath of a Planet Air pollution is a very big problem in the United States. A large part of air pollution comes from cars. The Environmental Protection Agency says, The most polluting activity an average person does everyday is drive their car (1 factsheet OMS- 5). Most people probably arent aware that they are polluting the environment. Maybe if everyone knew how serious this pollution problem is, they would find ways to reduce the pollution. Most pollution that is released by cars comes from t...
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Carbon Dioxide Rain Forest
920 wordsThe film showed many problems occurring with the earth today and what the individual can do to correct them. It showed many simple things that anyone can do to help out the earth. The five main categories in the video were recycling, saving endangered species, saving energy, saving water, and protecting the ozone. The fist section of the film talked about what you can do to help reducing your waste. By buying products with little or no excess packaging you can lower the amount of garbage you hav...
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Millions Of Years Ozone Layer
1,312 wordsMy views of the environment are rooted in my belief in creation. I do not believe that life on earth began spontaneously, nor do I believe that the earth is so delicately balanced. I don? t believe that the earth and its ecosystem are fragile. Many radical environmentalists do, they believe man can come along, all by themselves and change everything for worse. After hundreds of millions of years, they believe that we are the last two generations of human existence. And they think we can destroy ...
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Ozone Depleting Ozone Depletion
705 wordsLearning Ozone Layer Summary of Learning of the Ozone Experience On the 16 th of September 1987, negotiators meeting in Montreal finalized a landmark in international environmental diplomacy: the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer. The Successful Conclusion of the negotiations in Montreal was widely hailed at the time as a historic even. As the protocol was the most ambitious attempt ever to combat environmental degradation on a global scale. In the 10 years since that ...
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Burning Fossil Fuels Natural Greenhouse Effect
3,312 wordsThe Greenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect, as defined in the dictionary, is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earths atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. Even though this process occurs naturally and has kept the Earths temperature about 60 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it would otherwise be, current life on Earth could not be sustained with...
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Ground Level Ozone Clean Air Act
1,360 wordsWhat: In 1997 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established new ozone standards. The EPA also placed special restrictions on twenty-two states in the Ohio Valley and Midwest regions to prevent emissions from coal-burning power plants from being carried into the New England States by wind currents. (Tennessee is one of these twenty-two states. ) Both of these rulings were recently either struck down or placed on hold by Federal Appeals Courts. Why: The regulations put into place in 1997 b...
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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
2,376 wordsMethyl Bromide Ban Under the recently passed U. S. Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prohibited the U. S. production and importation of methyl bromide starting January 1, 2001. Methyl bromide is an odorless, colorless gas essential to the farming, storage, transportation, trading and processing of more than 100 American crops including fruits, grains, vegetables, cut flowers, wood products and cotton. Methyl bromide plays a key role is ensuring the safety and adequacy ...
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Ozone Molecules Ozone Layer
265 wordsNASA and EU Report Massive Arctic Ozone Loss Scientists from NASA and the European Union blamed the long, cold winter and human-made pollution for one of the largest ozone losses to record. The study was conducted between January and March with the use of NASA? s high-tech ER- 2 plane. This plane is able to reach high altitudes in order to check for ozone depletion. The measurements taken by the ER- 2 concluded that the ozone above the arctic has decreased nearly 60 percent. These measurements w...
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Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen Dioxide
1,745 wordsGifted Photochemical Smog Photochemical Smog Gifted Chemistry IB Alternative Assessment 1997 March 19 Historically, the term smog referred to a mixture of smoke and fog, hence the name smog. The industrial revolution has been the central cause for the increase in pollutants in the atmosphere over the last three centuries. Before 1950, the majority of this pollution was created from the burning of coal for energy generation, space heating, cooking, and transportation. Under the right conditions, ...
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Environmental Protection Agency Amounts Of Carbon
1,620 wordsWhat have we done to our planet Earth? At present, the most extreme and realistic finality we will ever realize as a race of beings is that our planet doesnt need us; we need the planet. Within the last two hundred and fifty years we have caused the planet more harm than its 4 billion years of existence. It is and has been time to realize the seriousness of our abuse towards Earth. We cant just turn pollution off like a switch when we dont want to deal with it, we have to do something about. And...
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Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen Dioxide
1,758 wordsGifted Chemistry IB Alternative Untitled Gifted Chemistry IB Alternative Assessment Photochemical Smog Historically, the term smog referred to a mixture of smoke and fog, hence the name smog. The industrial revolution has been the central cause for the increase in pollutants in the atmosphere over the last three centuries. Before 1950, the majority of this pollution was created from the burning of coal for energy generation, space heating, cooking, and transportation. Under the right conditions,...
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