Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Daily human activities increase carbon dioxide emissions

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Climate Change is a direct result of human activity. The modern life has tremendously increased the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere and the result is a chaotic environment where the so called natural disasters happen more often than before.

Simple man activities such as driving cars, taking planes, using gas, turning on lights and so on contribute to global warming. Besides all this regular actions that are present on everyone’s lives there are also industrial activities releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Deforestation is also one of the main causes of global warming and therefore climate change. All the emissions coming from deforestation in Brazil are accountable for 75% of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.

Small changes done by each one of us on our routine can have a great impact on global climate. In addition action must be taken towards preserving rainforests and other unique places around the planet.

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Why is the rainforest so important for the world’s climate?

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

It’s known for a fact that world’s climate is directly related to the carbon cycle. The climate change, the global warmth is a consequence of carbon emission. As far as this issue is concerned, rainforest plays a critical role into the global carbon cycle that shapes the climate of our planet.

The Amazon forest breaths and the oxygen and carbon gas emission are pretty much balanced through this process. What makes the forest important to reduce carbon emission is the CO2 used into the constitution of new organic matter of which plants are made. In other words, at the end of the day if there are plants growing, old or new, the rainforest will absorb more carbon gas than it will emit.

However, deforestation caused by fires will increase the carbon emission and turn the forest into a greater emitter other than an absorber environment. Fires burning down the rainforest are commonly used to pasture clearance.

The fires burning taking place at the Amazon region are responsible for 20% of the worldwide carbon emission. When analyzing this percentage of CO2 emission, becomes patent the major role of the forest into the climate change. If the forest continues to disappear it will turn temperatures around the world increasing global warmth

Rainforest preservation has to be taken as a main topic whenever climate change factors are on debate as should be the ways of how can we protect it.


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