Saturday, October 27, 2012

What causes global warming?


Many things cause global warming.  Electrical pollution causes global warming.  Electricity causes pollution in many modes, some not as good as than others.  In most cases, fossil fuels are flamed to generate electricity.  Fossil fuels are made of dead plants and animals.  Some examples of fossil fuels are oil and petroleum.  Many pollutants such as chemicals that pollute the air, water, and land are sent into the air when fossil fuels are burned.  Some of these chemicals are called greenhouse gasses.
We utilize these sources of power much in excess of the sources that give off less pollution. Petroleum is used mostly in the world via people for the activities like transportation, production of electricity and making many additional things.  Although this source of energy gives off a lot of pollution, it is used for 38% of the United States’ energy.
Some other examples of using energy and polluting the air are turning on a light, watching Television, listening to a stereo, washing or drying clothes, using a hair dryer, riding in a car, heating a meal in the microwave, using an air conditioner, playing a video game, using a dish washer. These things are doing by the man in the routine life as these are needed to make the life easy and quicker.
When you do these things, you are causing more greenhouse gasses to be sent into the air.  Greenhouse gasses are sent into the air because of producing the electricity and you use to do these things which cause pollution. 
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy. 
If you think of how many times a day you do these things, it’s a large amount of time.  You even have to add in how many other people do these things!  That turns out to be a lot of pollutants going into the air on a day because of people who like us using electricity. In order to overcome the pollution as well as energy the best is to use a least amount of electricity.

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