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Energy Industry Environment Fundamentals

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 31 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. CO2 - H20 - & Methane let incoming sunlight though - but block some of the infrared energy radiated upward by the sunlight- warmed Earth






2. Earth's atmosphere is like the car's window like a Car - Sunlight passing through the car's window is absorbed by the interior - heating it and the air inside the car - Some of the heat passes pack through the windows - but some is reflected off the






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






9. 95% of Alaskan coastline is available for drilling






10. Somebody's view of what something should be - When someone tries to - impose their opinion on you






11. 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






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






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






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






15. When you gain affluence - then you pollute more






16. When there's n - private ownership - nobody cares about the resource (if its privately owned or not)...we just want the product






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






18. The combustible part of the natural gas stream that we get out of the ground - It's 300x more heat- trapping than CO2...book says 25x more powerful a warming agent than CO2 - it has a much shorter life span and its atmospheric concentration is only a






19. 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






20. 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






21. Most often used in court. You _____ the jury (isolate them) so - they don't have outside influence






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






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






24. 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






25. Higher levels of CO2 increase the efficiency of ________ - and raise plant's water- use efficiency by closing the pores through which they loose moisture






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






27. 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)






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






29. - 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






30. 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






31. 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from...