Essays Tagged: "Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere"

Danger in the air... Speaks of dangers in local school systems

Is there danger in the air at the North Intermediate School in Wilmington? Apparently carbondioxide levels have been found to be above acceptable levels in some class rooms. According to ... arameters were within normal guideline ranges with the exception of consistently elevated levels of carbon dioxide and low relative humidity levels throughout the school," said the report.High levels ... d the report.High levels of carbon dioxide indoors can be a sign of poor ventilation in a building. Carbon dioxide is an odorless gas which can cause discomfort at lower levels and act as a mild narco ...

(2 pages) 34 0 3.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Gas Fears

ng acceleration of global warming if it continues at its rate of increase. The abnormal increase of carbon dioxide over the past two years may be connected to forest fires in Siberia or the unusually ... or alarm. He stated that if the trend continued for 5 years then it would become a cause for alarm. Carbon dioxide is the primary gas blamed for the increase in global temperatures since the industria ...

(1 pages) 22 0 1.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Cause and Effect of Global Warming

ns in overall average temperature for the past 150,000 years that suggest a direct association with carbon dioxide levels.In the past the temperature highs and lows have been in tandem with carbon dio ... en in tandem with carbon dioxide level highs and lows, this does not seem to be a mere coincidence. Carbon dioxide currently accounts for 0.03% of the gas content within the atmosphere. However, it ha ...

(3 pages) 224 7 4.4 Feb/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Free: Is there Such a Word?

the it. That certainly is not free. We breath in this compound composed of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and other insignificant gases and never in our minds does the question arise about th ... ". Where would we be? Probably in the world filled with dust, radiation and skyrocketing amounts of carbon dioxide. All this valuable research and data doesn't come cheap. Every time you get your payc ...

(3 pages) 21 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

China-Ethics and The Environment Case Study

Are We Problem � PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �1� China-Ethics and The Environment Case Study�AbstractAre We The Problem?"First of all, it is obv ... of all, it is obvious when we examine the world's population problem that there are just too many Chinese" (Text, Year, p. 141). "At its founding in 1949 the People's Repulic of China had a population ... "Only three decades later its population was more than 800 million (IIASA, p. 1). "The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) estimates that as of July 2004, there were 1,298,847,624 people in China; ...

(6 pages) 23 0 5.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues