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Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming gas,have hit 400 parts per million
What is an increased atmospheric pressure of global warming ?
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Radically upgrading existing highways and transmission lines, and would help cut greenhouse gas emissions.
What is infrastructure upgrade?
100
A heavy odorless and colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances Also known as CO2.
What is Carbon dioxixe
100
This particular political party believes that climate change is a man made disaster.
What is the Democratic party beliefs of who is responsible for climate change?
200
External to the climate system, such as changes in volcanic activity, solar output, and the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
What is natural factors?
200
A offshore farms installed in the North Sea and the Baltic now supply electrical power to over 100,000 homes. Which uses more renewable energy rather than fossil fuels for electrical power.
What is Wind farms?
200
A hydrocarbon gas produced both through natural sources and human activities, including the decomposition of wastes in landfills and agriculture.
What is methane?
200
This specific atmospheric gas consists in mostly Venus and mars.
What is two of of the 8 planets nearly all made up of carbon dioxide?
300
They scatter and absorb solar and infrared radiation which may change the micro-physical and chemical properties of clouds and possibly their lifetime and extent.
What is Atmospheric aerosols?
300
The government and industry often cooperate it's research on technologies for capturing the CO2 emitted by heavy industry and storing it underground.
What is sequestration?
300
A colorless gas with a sweetish odor, prepared by heating ammonia nitrate. It produces exhilaration or anesthesia when inhaled and is used as an anesthetic and as an aerosol propellant.
What is Nitrous Oxide?
300
The planet heats, climate patterns change, with more extreme and unpredictable weather across the world. For example many places will be hotter, some colder and the sea level will rise.
What is climate change?
400
Cutting down forests to create farmland have led to changes in the amount of sunlight reflected from the ground back into space.
What is the change of land use?
400
In these kinds of accounts, the money you save is invested exclusively in projects that meet certain environmental and/or social criteria.
What is a "green"savings accounts?
400
An inert gas that has a long history acting as a refrigerant, allowing us to stay cool in the summer, and as a spray propellant for important consumer substances.
What is Dichlorodifluoromethane?
400
Air conditioning and heating account for almost half of an average source.
What is electricity use in the average American home?
500
Throws out large volumes of sulphur dioxide (SO2), water vapour, dust, and ash into the atmosphere. The large volumes of gases and ash can influence climatic patterns for years. And sulphur dioxide gas can reach the upper levels of the atmosphere and partially block the incoming rays of the sun, leading to cooling.
What is a eruption of a volcano?
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Raising high protecting wall around the country, creating a kind of "bath tub" to prevent flooding.
What is building dikes?
500
These gases are sometimes used as substitutes for stratospheric ozone-depleting substances (ex, chlorofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons). These gases are typically emitted in smaller quantities, but because they are potent greenhouse gases, they are sometimes referred to as High Global Warming Potential gases ("High GWP gases").
What is Fluorinated gases ?
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This defense council proposed the Clean Air Act to cut power plant emissions by 26 percent in the next 7 years.
What is The NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Clean Air Act?