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... The most common natural resources that we use are fossil fuels. ... People use fossil fuels even though they give off harmful gas into the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is a naturally occurring thing in our atmosphere. The greenhouse effect are gases in our atmosphere that prevent the heat from earth escaping into space, which in turn warms our planet. The greenhouse effect was well balanced until the nineteenth century when mankind entered the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution caused mankind to use fossil fuels to enter our atmosphere by using them as a power source. ... Coal, oil, and natural gas are fossil fuels that we use as power sources such as electricity and to power out cars. ... Coal is the solid fossil fuel. ... Coal releases the most gases, such as sulpher dioxide, than the other fossil fuels. ... Oil is a liquid fossil fuel. ... In the 1970s forty percent of the worlds global fossil fuel intake came from oil. ... Natural gas is now becoming the more popular fossil fuel to use. Natural gas is more efficient compared to oil and coal in the sense that it has less waste emissions contributing less to global warming and the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect makes it so the earth is warmer than it would be if there weren’t an atmosphere. ... Burning fossil fuels releases gases such as nitrous oxide, methane, and carbon dioxide. The emissions of carbon dioxide by man have provided the most enhancements to the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide has contributed sixty percent of the enhancement of the greenhouse effect Page 3 since the 18th century. ... Methane is one of the gases that is released during the burning of fossil fuels. ... Man releases methane into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, burning trees during deforestation, and burying waste in landfills. ... The man-made contributions of methane are helping to enhance the ever-growing greenhouse effect. ... It also contributes to twenty percent of the enhancement of the greenhouse effect. ... This is done through forest fires and manmade burning of fossil fuels. ... Although, during that particular time in history the natural greenhouse effect was much stronger than it is today where it trapped much more heat, but we also Page 4 must account for the fact that the sun was also not as strong as it is today. ... Unfortunately, since the industrial revolution the burning of fossil fuels has tilted the balance of natural sources of gas and the addition of man made gases. ... Carbon dioxide is the number one contributor to the enhanced greenhouse effect. ... The sources for nitrous oxide made by man are nylon and nitric acid production and the burning of fossil fuels. |
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