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Energy Industry Environment Fundamentals
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1. - Created under joint sponsorship of the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - Not itself a scientific research organization - Has 3 working groups that each issue a report every five years on the findings of the latest cl

2. Makes up 367 parts per million of our atmosphere - 95% comes from natural sources and the rest from human sources - Only 5% comes from human activities... snthropogenic (man made) - Very stable molecule and can last in the atmosphere for more than

3. 95% of Alaskan coastline is available for drilling

4. Inefficiency is a waste and results in waste - and waste is pollution

5. About ___ % of the total human greenhouse impact is due to - methane

6. Temperature readings at ground- based measuring stations reveal an average warming trend of about ____ degrees F since 1850 after adjusting for the urban heat island effect. About half of this warming has occurred since 1970 - which - t - many scient

7. Pour people only care about surviving - use inefficient technology

8. Takes ____ years for water to - recycle in spring

9. Man - made - It is estimated that CO2 accounts for about 60% of the anthropogenic (or human caused) greenhouse change known as the enhanced greenhouse effect

10. The law is objective ...justice is subjective (we all have our own opinion)

11. Along with high temperatures - many scientists expect that anthropogenic global warming will mean a more active water cycle and higher...

12. May let solar energy in while keeping radiated energy from escaping into - space - Water vapor has a net warming effect

13. 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from...

14. When you gain affluence - then you pollute more

15. Use on car exhaust systems was federally mandated in 1970 by the Clean Air Act - increase N2O emissions - though t - what extent is under debate. They point out that converters reduce emissions of another greenhouse gas - ozone - as well as carbon mo

16. Addressing environmental problems requires that poverty be reduced. The problems in the Third world come not from a lack of government regulations - but from a lack of freedom t - create - own - trade - and sell property.

17. O The most common greenhouse gas - 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from water vapor

18. Warming potential is 300x that of CO2 - Smog

19. For me to - win - you have to - lose

20. CO2 - H20 - & Methane let incoming sunlight though - but block some of the infrared energy radiated upward by the sunlight- warmed Earth

21. IPCC predicts that in the 21st century - increased water runoff in Greenland (from warming) will be offset by an ice buildup in ______ (from more precipitation)

22. Means we capture CO2 when it comes out of smokestacks and put it back underground

23. In US - 70% of man - made nitrous oxide emissions come from the use of ____________ agricultural fertilizers and automobile exhaust - Globally - fertilizers alone account for 70% of all emissions

24. Environmentalists use it as a tool to - try to - get companies to - not drill

25. Human activity accounts for about ___% of methane emissions - while the rest comes from natural sources such as wetlands

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