Climate Change: Long‚ Medium and Short Term Long term evidence: Type of evidence | Explanation | Reliability | Ice cores – CO2 | CO2 trapped in ice cores. Low concentrations of CO2 occur naturally during glacial periods and high concentrations during interglacial periods (present). 2007 measured 383 parts per million. | The number of CO2 sequences that correlate well with each other suggest it is reliable. | Ice cores – O2 isotopes | Ratio of oxygen 16 to 18 is a good indicator of past sea
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The ozone layer is a deep layer in the stratosphere‚ encircling the Earth‚ that has large amounts of ozone in it. The layer shields the entire Earth from much of the harmful ultraviolet radiation that comes from the sun. Interestingly‚ it is also this ultraviolet radiation that forms the ozone in the first place. Ozone is a special form of oxygen‚ made up of three oxygen atoms rather than the usual two oxygen atoms. It usually forms when some type of radiation or electrical discharge separates
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How Acid Rain Affects Organisms in Aquatic Biomes Through the advancement of technology‚ the issue of the air surrounding the earth might have been one of the most often matters to be brought up and discussed among scientists and engineers. Acid rain is one of the more serious environmental problems and it is closely related to the air pollution. Nowadays‚ it has affected large part of US‚ Europe and Canada. People start to be concerned about acid rain since it is getting worse in the passed
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Air Pollution Index (API) is the conversion of ambient respirable suspended particulates (RSP)‚ sulphur dioxide (SO2)‚ carbon monoxide (CO)‚ ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentration measured at the air quality monitoring network to a scale of 0 to 500. The lower the level‚ the better quality of air we can breathe. If the index is above 100‚ there will be an adverse acute health effect to human. The number of days which had a record of API 100 or above keeps increasing these years‚ which
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BIOTECHNOLOGY HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE CHANGE CONTENTS I. CLIMATE CHANGE I.1. Greenhouse gas emission I.2. Manifestation of climate change in Vietnam II. IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIO-ECONOMY II.1. Impacts on ecosystems II.2. Impacts on the economy II.2.1. Impacts on agriculture and aquaculture II.2.2. Impacts on the energy sector II.3. Impacts on other economic sectors II.4. Impacts on society I. CLIMATE CHANGE: I.1. Greenhouse gas emission:
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The ozone layer is a layer in Earth’s atmosphere which absorbs most of the Sun’s UV radiation. It contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3)‚ although it is still very small with regard to ordinary oxygen‚ and is less than ten parts per million‚ the average ozone concentration in Earth’s atmosphere being only about 0.6 parts per million. The ozone layer is mainly found in the lower portion of the stratosphere from approximately 20 to 30 kilometres (12 to 19 mi) above Earth‚ though the
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Plan Climate Action Plan Climate Green house gas Australia is an extremely dry continent. 60% of Australia is agricultural land but only 6% is cultivated. It is split up into 6 main climatic regions which are equatorial (region near the equator)‚ tropical‚ sub-tropical‚ desert‚ grassland‚ and temperate. The equatorial region is made up of rainforest and savannah and since it is near the equator typically experiences the hottest weather and a lot of rainfall. Because it has heavy rain it is
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Compare and Contrast Essay AIU Online ENG COMP ABSTRACT Software companies want the best products to sell in order to stay in business and remain productive. This organization is on the rise to find the most reliable and best personal computer for excelling students by comparing and contrasting the prices‚ performances and models from three different brands sold by the most popular vendors. Our company selected the Apple-13.3” MacBook Pro Notebook‚ the HP-Envy 15.6” Laptop‚ and the Dell-Ultra
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Daly‚ A. and P. Zannetti. 2007. An Introduction to Air Pollution – Definitions‚ Classifications‚ and History. Chapter 1 of AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION (P. Zannetti‚ D. Al-Ajmi‚ and S. Al-Rashied‚ Editors). Published by The Arab School for Science and Technology (ASST) (http://www.arabschool.org.sy) and The EnviroComp Institute (http://www.envirocomp.org/). Chapter 1 An Introduction to Air Pollution – Definitions‚ Classifications‚ and History Aaron Daly and Paolo Zannetti The EnviroComp Institute
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Urbanization and climate change Cities are often blamed for climate change. Sometimes‚ this is on the basis of estimates that seem to have no supporting evidence. This can be seen in the much-cited suggestion that cities account for 80 per cent of all GHG emissions worldwide. Actually‚ only around 35 per cent of the world’s GHG emissions are emitted within city boundaries‚ although city populations account for a higher proportion if emissions are allocated to consumers. In other instances‚ it seems
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