EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: List Of Industrial Processes, Magic 2Ch, Habitat Destruction
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Currently, everyone agree climate change is happening, now everybody is waiting to see what will happen. The energy from the sun warms the earth"s surface. This energy then radiates back towards space. Clouds and co2 are heated and radiate heat in all directions: methane is the most significant greenhouse gas (cows) while co2 is the most significant greenhouse gas produced from humans. Greenhouse gasses include water vapour, co2, ch4, and n2o. Processess affecting increase of increase of green house gasses. When wetlands lose a lot of its plants, there is a large formation of peat. Peat absorbs oxygen and releases carbon dioxide. Canada is ranked 8th in the world, at 2. 3% This is still 4 times larger than it should be. China & taiwan are ranked first at 24. 4% The 20th century was the hottest century in the past 1000 years. The 20 warmest years occurred since 1980. Increased salinization of water: take time, money and energy to fix water.