The world's scientific experts agree that industrial and land use activities are having an adverse impact on our climate. Burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gasoline creates global warming pollution that acts as the glass in a greenhouse, reflecting heat back toward the Earth and warming...

The technology used in the production of the automobile has had a negative "domino chain effect" on society. The automobile has been one of the greatest inventions in the last 100 years. It has helped the United States grow in ways never imagined before. It has allowed people to move ou...

Everyone knows that the atmosphere and the pollution in the world is very dangerous to everything and everyone. But how bad are these different things that affect us and everything around us? This paper will specifically look at the effects, global effect and the treatment on acid rain, the greenhou...

The greenhouse effect, as defined in the dictionary, is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth\'s atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. Even thoug...

 The Environmental Concerns of the Livestock Industry The United States leads the way in a global trend toward increased meat consumption. The averageAmerican consumes almost twice his or her own body weight in meat every year. World meat production has...

Hertford Seminars in Regulationfor the Regulatory Policy InstituteTackling Global Warming: Market Instruments or Regulatory SolutionsOXERA Environmental LtdTel: + 44 (0) 1865 251142, Fax: + 44 (0) 1865 204606October 2nd 1998IntroductionGlobal warming is now officially recognised. Never mind the scie...

1.Predictions included in the International Energy Outlook 2007The International Energy Outlook 2007 (IEO 2007) forecasts a significant increase in the worldwide energy consumption over the next 20 years. Thus, according to IEO's projections, the energy use will increase by 57% from 2004 to 2030. Ye...

Establishment of the Kyoto ProtocolIntroduction: There is a consensus among the scientific community that increases in greenhouse gas emissions will affect climate. Considerable uncertainty, however, exists with regard to the magnitude of the effect, its timing, and its regional pattern. In ad...