global warming.
releases methane > co2.
The perma-frost is a barrier of it's accumulations since last cycle as it melts it not only dissolves the ice membrane but the water provides a transport to the atmosphere as it saturates the deeper soils (peats).
If it's not the greatest factor at the moment it certainly has the potential to be in the future, If it's not the most threatening it's certainly capable and well on its way to being number one, lets just pray them boggs don't catch fire.
You never know what they are holding back and protecting us from since the last ice age.
Ob1
2007-01-26 08:16:49
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answer #1
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answered by old_brain 5
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There are many processes that create CO2, even natural ones. Human beings, and every living creature that breathes oxygen produces CO2 on exhalation. However, most importantly is the burning of fuels from petroleum or coal or natural gas, which contain a lot of carbon in their composition that creates most of the CO2 that causes what we commonly know as the global warming problem. Cars that run on gasoline, machines that run on diesel are a big problem. However, due to the fact that power generators burn millions of tons of fuel around the world on a constant daily basis, are the ones that create most of the problem.
2007-01-26 14:54:57
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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Burning fossil fuels. Biggest contributor is gasoline and diesel powered vehicles. All fossil fuels are compounds of hydrogen and carbon (hydro-carbon fuel). When it is mixed with air, mainly nitrogen and oxygen, and ignited, it literally explodes by the chemical combination of hydrogen and oxygen. This explosion produces the energy to propel the vehicle and other mechanical devices. The byproducts of this process produces many chemical compounds but most abundant is water, carbon dioxide, NOx and carbon monoxide. Imagine billions of vehicles in the world spewing CO2 by millions of tons which end up in our ozone layer. Going totally electric will not solve the answer because all non nuclear power plants burn fossil fuels to generate electricity. The only solution is the hydrogen/fuel cell power. It only produces water vapor as by product.
lightpulse
2007-01-26 15:06:48
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answer #3
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answered by lightpulse 4
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As of January 2007, the earth's atmospheric CO2 concentration is is about 0.0383% by volume (383 ppmv) or 0.0582% by weight.This represents about 2.996Ã1012 tonnes, and is estimated to be 105 ppm (37.77%) above the pre-industrial average
Despite its small concentration, CO2 is a very important component of Earth's atmosphere, because it absorbs infrared radiation at wavelengths of 4.26 µm (asymmetric stretching vibrational mode) and 14.99 µm (bending vibrational mode) and enhances the greenhouse effec
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the atmospheric CO2 concentration has increased by approximately 110 µL/L or about 40%, most of it released since 1945. Monthly measurements taken at Mauna Loa since 1958 show an increase from 316 µL/L in that year to 376 µL/L in 2003, an overall increase of 60 µL/L during the 44-year history of the measurements. Burning fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum is the leading cause of increased man-made CO2; deforestation is the second major cause. Around 24,000 million tonnes of CO2 are released per year worldwide, equivalent to about 6500 million tonnes of carbon. In 1997, Indonesian peat fires may have released 13%–40% as much carbon as fossil fuel burning does.
2007-01-26 14:59:34
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answered by MSK 4
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Deforestation, fossil fuels (factories, refineries, gas/diesel-powered machinery), forest fires, animals, power plants (Barring nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, and solar), humans and animals (We exhale carbon dioxide)...And just about anything else that burns.
2007-01-27 23:46:29
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answered by tfermagic 1
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the real problem is not CO2 production but rather the fact that we keep chopping down trees to build malls. Plant take in CO2 and release oxygen, as we destroy plant life we are destroying natures air filter.
2007-01-26 15:25:03
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answer #6
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answered by yeraluzer 4
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