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Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
1,080 wordsWhile some people believe the earth's climatic changes are due to the fact that the universe is getting older, others believe it is due to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is a naturally occuring phenomenon that is responsible for trapping heat near the earth's surface and keeping the planet warm. It is called the greenhouse effect because the way it works is similar to the way in which a green house functions. In a greenhouse sunlight passes through the transparent roof and walls an...
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Electromagnetic Radiation Infrared Radiation
1,377 wordsYou might remember the heroic role that newly-invented radar played in the Second World War. People hailed it then as "Our Miracle Ally." But even in its earliest years, as it was helping win the war, radar proved to be more than an expert enemy locator. Radar technicians, doodling away in their idle moments, found that they could focus a radar beam on a marshmallow and toast it. They also popped popcorn with it. Such was the beginning of microwave cooking. The very same energy that warned the B...
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Surface Of The Earth Released Into The Atmosphere
328 wordsatmosphere is to insulate and warm the surface of the earth. The greenhouse effect is not a new phenomenon. Humans can help reduce the increasing greenhouse effect. The atmosphere insulates and warms the surface of the earth. Incoming solar radiation passes through the atmosphere. The surface of the earth absorbs some of the radiation. The unabsorbed radiation is emitted back out in the form of infrared radiation. Gases, such as, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor absorb the...
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Rise In Sea Level Carbon Dioxide
633 wordsThe global warming is caused by emissions of over 20 gases into the atmosphere. The major contributors are carbon dioxide (CO 2), ozone, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Although these gases are produced by many industrial processes, the major source is the burning of fossil fuels in boilers, furnaces and automobile engines. When released into the air in large quantities, these gases cause the earths atmosphere to warm by trapping the suns heat. Infrared radiation that woul...
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Fibre Crystal Mid Infrared Lasers
1,998 wordsFibre crystal mid-infrared lasers As we know, a laser is an optical oscillator made out of a gas, liquid or solid with mirrors at both ends (see, e. g. , The Computer Language Company Inc. , 2007 b). To make the laser work, the material is pumped with light or electricity. This pumping has excited the electrons and has caused them to jump to more high orbits. Some electrons do spontaneously drop back to lower energy levels what releases photons (i. e. quantum's of light). The photons do then sti...
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Rise In Sea Level Atmospheric Co 2
1,132 wordsGlobal Warming Debate The global warming is caused by emissions of over 20 gases into the atmosphere. The major contributors are carbon dioxide (CO 2), ozone, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Although these gases are produced by many industrial processes, the major source is the burning of fossil fuels in boilers, furnaces and automobile engines. When released into the air in large quantities, these gases cause the earths atmosphere to warm by trapping the suns heat. Infrar...
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Methane Nitrous Oxide Burning Fossil Fuels
4,674 wordsHuman Environmental Science Global Warming Human kind has entered a brand new relationship with the earth. The constant and increasing pressures we are exerting threaten our planets ability to sustain life itself. Change-in the way we think, and in the way we live-is needed now. Global warming is the most urgent environmental problem the world will face in the next decade and the next century. Few, if any, trends are more important to our future than climate change caused by human activities. Sc...
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Million Years Ago Millions Of Years
923 wordsReptiles Enjoyed Warm Arctic (Global Warming) An article written by ABC News writer Kenneth Chang discusses the change in climate of the arctic from ninety million years ago. Seven hundred miles from the North Pole, lies an island called Axel Heiberg, a barren land that scientists have dug up fossil bones of a cold-blooded reptile known as a champsosaur. How does this happen in an arctic, freezing land? How does a reptile that needs the warmth of the sun to survive, live in a frigid climate? Wel...
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Natural Greenhouse Effect Average Global Temperature
3,796 wordsFire is Fire 2 Introduction Fire is a topic on which most people can comment. Fire is a widespread phenomenon. Most of us have seen fires in natural vegetation, or their effects; stark, blackened vegetation or a smoke pall. Because fires such as these can have damaging economic and social effects, can spoil forestry timber, can burn down houses and farms, and can kill people and animals, there has been a lot written about wildfires. Added to this wide perception of the damage that can be caused ...
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Methane Nitrous Oxide Rise In Sea
1,611 wordsThe Greenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect is an increase in the atmospheric temperature caused by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. These gases act as a heat blanket insulating the Earths surface absorbing and trapping heat radiation which normally escapes from the earth. They include carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane, nitrous oxide, CFCs, and other halo-carbons. The earths atmosphere goes through two processes constantly. Global cooling is the first process. This process uses the cl...
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Greenhouse Gases Infrared Radiation
431 wordsGreenhouse Effect Greenhouse Effect, term for the role the atmosphere plays in insulating and warming the earths surface. The atmosphere is pretty much transparent to incoming solar radiation. When this radiation strikes the earths surface, some of it is absorbed, warming the earths surface. Earth s surface emits some of this energy back out in the form of infrared radiation. As this infrared radiation travels through the atmosphere, most of it is absorbed by atmospheric gases like carbon dioxid...
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952 wordsWhen Greenhouse Effect Greenhouse Effect When one starts a car or burns wood, the last thought on their mind is the consequences to these actions. Unfortunately, the daily dangers to earth are not widely know. Due to the constant change of society, this planet must cope with various problems. One of the most important ecological structures is the ozone layer. The same shield that protects us from the sun? s deadly radiation, can also act as a blanket engulfing us in heat. This situation is know ...
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Methane Nitrous Oxide Carbon Dioxide
821 wordsThe greenhouse effect is an increase in the atmospheric temperature caused by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. These gases act as a heat blanket insulating the Earths surface absorbing and trapping heat radiation which normally escapes from the earth. They include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, CFCs, and other halocarbons. The earths atmosphere goes through two processes constantly. Global cooling is the first process. This process uses the clouds which cover 60 % of...
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Burning Fossil Fuels Average Global Temperature
1,498 wordsGreenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that warms the earth and enables it to support life. Without it, the average temperature on earth would be around - 18 degrees C, instead of the current + 15 degrees C a frozen wilderness. It works on the same principles as the ordinary glass garden greenhouse, where glass allows light to get in, but does not allow for the heat to get out. This makes for a much higher temperature inside the greenhouse. On a planetary scale, similar ...
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Polar Ice Caps Rise In Sea Level
2,227 wordsThe Greenhouse Effect Issue Statement While some people believe the earths climatic changes are due to the fact that the universe is getting older, others believe it is due to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is a naturally occuring phenomenon that is responsible for trapping heat near the earths surface and keeping the planet warm. It is called the greenhouse effect because the way it works is similar to the way in which a green house functions. In a greenhouse sunlight passes throu...
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Ma Houghton Mifflin Boston Ma Houghton
1,031 wordsGreenhouse Effect When one starts a car or burns wood, the last thought on their mind is the consequences to these actions. Unfortunately, the daily dangers to earth are not widely know. Due to the constant change of society, this planet must cope with various problems. One of the most important ecological structures is the ozone layer. The same shield that protects us from the suns deadly radiation, can also act as a blanket engulfing us in heat. This situation is know as the greenhouse effect....
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