Carbon Dioxide & the Greenhouse effect
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- Created on: 19-04-14 12:44
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- Carbon Dioxide & the Greenhouse Effect
- Co2
- Carbon is present in the atmosphere as Co2
- Many processes create Co2 as a waste product
- Burning fossil fuels
- Too much Co2 in the atmosphere causes global warming
- Co2 can be 'locked up' in natural stores
- oceans, lakes & ponds
- Green plants
- Peat bogs
- Co2 can be 'locked up' in natural stores
- Co2 and methane trap heat from the sun
- The temperature of earth is a balance between the heat that it gets from the sun and the heat it radiates
- Gases in the air act like insulating layers
- They absorb heat (that is normally radiated into space) and re-radiate it in all dirctions
- If this didnt happen it would get cold at night
- They absorb heat (that is normally radiated into space) and re-radiate it in all dirctions
- Green house gasses keep the heat in the atmosphere
- Co2 and methane are two of these gases
- However we have too much of both of these gases
- This is heating up the planet
- Global warming
- Climate change
- Global warming
- This is heating up the planet
- However we have too much of both of these gases
- Co2 and methane are two of these gases
- Co2
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