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Factors That Contribute to Climate Change
Industrial Manufacturing
Cement production by itself accounts for around 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
Industrial manufacturing produces about 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Solutions: Use renewable energy (solar, wind), reduce cement use
Factories use fossil fuels for power and heat. Industrial emissions have increased significantly since the industrial revolution and the increased demand for goods.
Deforestation and Land Clearing
Trees store large amounts of carbon in their trunks, branches, leaves and roots. When forests are cut down, or burned, that cabon is released into the atmosphere as cabon dioxide. Deforestation accounts for approximately 10–15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Each year, approximately 10 million hectares of forest are destroyed worldwide.
Solutions: Reforestation, sustainable forestry, protecting forests.
Trees absorb carbon dioxide, so removing forests reduces the Earth’s ability to regulate climate. Much deforestation occurs to create farmland, roads, and urban areas. Protecting and restoring forests helps slow climate change.
Transportation Systems
Transportation accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This contributes to global warming.
Solutions: Use public transportation, electric cars, reduce air travel.
Airplanes. Long flights produce high emissions per person (more than one person normally creates in a year)
Cars. Cars produce approx. 75% of transportation emissions.
Ships. Most ships burn heavy fuel oil or diesel releasing carbon dioxide.
Agriculture
Animals like cows and sheep produce methane through digestion. Methane is over 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat.
Fertilizers add nitrogen to soil and then microbes convert some of this nitrogen to nitrous oxide, a greehouse gas that is about 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide over 100 years.
Solutions: Reduce meat consumption, sustainable farming, use less fertilizers.
Burning of Fossil Fuels
Burning fossil fuels releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Burning fossil fuels is the burning of coal, oil and gas for electriciity, heat and fuel.
Burning fossil fuels accounts for roughly 80-82% of total world energy consumption.
Solutions: Renewable energy, solar panels, windmills.
