Carbon Dioxide
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What is carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound that consists of two oxygen atoms and one carbon atom. It is necessary for everyday life because it is utilized by plants and exhaled by animals.
Carbon Dioxide is composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom. CO2 exists in the earth's atmosphere as a gas and in its solid state it is known as dry ice. The molecular formula for carbon dioxide is CO2. Its appearance is a colorless gas. Its melting point is -57 degrees Celsius.Co2 derives climate crisis and also affects the oceans making them 30% more acidic. Today, 30 billion tons of co2 per year or 84% of all the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is related to human activity.
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Where does carbon dioxide come from?
Carbon dioxide molecules provide the initial greenhouse heating needed to maintain water vapor concentrations. When carbon dioxide concentrations drop, Earth cools, some water vapor falls out of the atmosphere, and the greenhouse warming caused by water vapor drops. Carbon dioxide gas is produced from the combustion of organic materials such as wood, coal, oil, gasoline, and tobacco. So that is another reason not to smoke. To help the environment!
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How are carbon dioxide emissions affecting the atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide absorbs solar energy keeping heat close to the earth’s surface, and not letting the heat out of the atmosphere . So it affects the atmosphere and causes climate change at the same time.
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How is carbon dioxide affecting the health of many humans?
Carbon dioxide pollution is a major cause of many chronic illnesses such as sleep apnea, lung disease, or diminished consciousness. It can also cause premature deaths in babies.
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How can we stop carbon dioxide emissions?
Reduce air travel. As of 2017, the amount of transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions eclipsed the amount of electricity generation emissions.
Here are a few things that you can do to help the environment :
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Make your driving more efficient
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Plant trees
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Eat less red meat
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Make your house more energy efficient
There are many factors contributing to all these carbon emissions that we are causing, and since we are causing them we should be able to stop them. The main culprits are deforestation, electricity consumption, and industrial manufacturing. Greenhouse gas emissions trap heat in the atmosphere, leading to several changes like global warming, deterioration of the ozone layer, and destruction of ecosystems. While gasses like methane and nitrous oxide are also harmful and contribute to our overall carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide is the most prevalent.
We should plant more trees because they absorb carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and turn it into oxygen.
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How might the Paris accord help stop this problem?
The Paris agreement also known as the Paris climate accords or the Paris accords, is an international treaty on climate change, adopted in 2015. It covers climate change mitigation, adaptation and finance. The agreement was negotiated by 196 parties at the 2015 united nations climate conference near Paris.
After the European Union ratified it, many other countries followed suit.
The Paris Agreement was opened for signature on 22 April 2016 on Earth Day at a ceremony in New York.
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How might the world look like by the year 2122 due to climate change caused by carbon emissions?
All of this extra carbon needs to go somewhere. So far, land plants and the ocean have taken up about 55 percent of the extra carbon people have put into the atmosphere while about 45 percent has stayed in the atmosphere. Eventually, the land and oceans will take up most of the extra carbon dioxide, but as much as 20 percent may remain in the atmosphere for many thousands of years.
It is significant that so much carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere because co2 is the most important gas for controlling the earth's temperature. Carbon dioxide, methane, and halocarbons are greenhouse gasses that absorb a wide range of energy including infrared energy emitted by the earth and then re-emit it. The re-emitted energy travels out in all directions including back to the earth's surface. Which heats up the earth’s surface. Now, it is time for a suprise!