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Home >> Air >> Emissions of Greenhouse Gases, 1980-2005 [4] Measured in Global Warming Potential (GWP) Chart. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) {107} Carbon Dioxide is one of the top manmade producing greenhouse gases in the United States. Greenhouse gases absorb and trap heat in the earth's atmosphere, thus warming the surface of the planet, causing the average temperature to increase. The result of this global warming could produce a significant impact on the environment, such as: the rise in sea level would cause flooding of low-lying areas, climatic zones will shift towards the poles by 150-550 km in the mid-latitude region, which would cause ecosystems to decline or become extinct, there will be greater regional food shortages, water resources will become more scarce, and the physical infrastructure will be damaged. On a personal note, for each 1 degree Celsius increase in temperature caused by carbon dioxide emissions, the resulting air pollution could lead to more than 20,000 deaths a year worldwide and many more cases of respiratory illness and asthma [3] Methane (CH4) {8} Methane is over 20 times more harmful to the environment than CO2 emissions Nitrous Oxide (N2O) {1} While its radiative warming effect is substantially less than CO2, nitrous oxide's persistence in the atmosphere, when considered over a 100 year period, per unit of weight, has 296 times more impact on global warming than that per mass unit of carbon dioxide (CO2) [7]   Think before you print!

Website Translation Eat Less Meat Methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas and cows are one of the greatest methane emitters. Their grassy diet and multiple stomachs cause them to produce methane, which they exhale with every breath. The amount of land needed for cows to graze causes more trees to be cut down, thus allowing more carbon emissions to escape into the atmosphere. There are 152 actions on this website that you can take to help save the earth! How many "earth-saving" points can you earn? There are 830 possible points! Find out for free by signing up today! Top 5 Members Username Points greenirish  617  hbomb7  417  DMMike  412  Elizabetha  371  lolazion  331  Hemp Shower Curtain $70.00 "I am Not a Paper Cup" Reusable Coffee Mug $19.95 Solio Classic Universal Hybrid Charger $99.95 View all products >>   "The damage that will occur to my office by me cutting back on coffee is not worth going green over." DMMike on 4/20/2010 about the action Cut back on how much coffee you drink, or stop all together   Subscribe to RSS headline updates from:

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