RNR 1001 : Exam 2 Lecture 2
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Yes: problems, standing water evapor\ates and salt remains, contamination of h20 runoff, example colorado river quality of h20 is deteriorating, waterlogging, saturating the soil, artificaly creates a wetland. Industrial pollution: widespread release of acids, toxic chemicals, and particulate matter, love canal, chemical dump site near niagra falls, found over 400 different chemicals, lois gibbs led the campaign to close the area. Increase efficiency to reduce pollution: fluidized bed combustion, coal gasification. In the history of the planet: we are seeing an increase of 4-7 degreese over. Incoming solar radiation: no real dramatic increase, volcanic aerosols, so2 forms particles in the atmosphere , which reflects radiation back into space. So we would expect we are putting carbon. It began to decline around 1850: ocean surface water verifies this also, as you go up the globe warming increases and visversa, polar ice sheet is shrinking, this gonna affect the polar bear.
