Rafaela de Figueiredo
This article talks about climate coolers. It was
written by Stephen Omes on January 25, 2012. This article talks about methane;
a not very known thing about methane is that it traps heat in Earth’s
atmosphere (greenhouse effect) more than 20 times as much as the same amount of
carbon dioxide. But unlike carbon dioxide, methane stays in the air for only 12
years.
So, scientists say that if we bring down methane
emissions, we would have a slow temperature increase caused by global warming. So,
that would help a lot. The black particles spewed from fires into the air can
help. If people would reduce the amount of methane and soot that end up in the
atmosphere, we would have more than half degree Celsius every year and the
amount of global warming predicted to happen in 2050 would degrease a lot.
And not only slowing down warming, but reducing
methane would clean up the air “The
scientists estimate that better air quality could prevent between 0.7 million
and 4.7 million deaths per year that would otherwise have been caused by air
pollution.”
“If you were to cut out these emissions, you might
actually get a warming effect instead of a cooling effect,” Forster told Science News.
Scientists know that people get curious about this
cleaner to slow climate temperatures. But maybe the world can get a head start
on cutting on methane and soot.
Most articles about global warming talk about carbon
dioxide, but there is more to it. That is not the only gas that accumulates in
the atmosphere and insulates the planet. Methane also traps heat in Earth{s
atmosphere. More than twine times as much as the same amount of carbon dioxide.
But unlike carbon, which can stay on Earth for hundreds of years, methane is in
the air for only 12 years. So reducing methane might be the head start to
solving a big problem.
This article interested me because, well it’s about effects that will
lead us to global warming and it’s about my future. About what will happen if
we don’t do something right now. My family has been concerned about global
warming and carbon dioxide emissions. We know that this is real and it’s
happening right now. We started recycling this year because of so many reasons
and we are now more aware of what is happening to our world.
The areas of interaction that is being used on this article is
Environments, Health and Social Education and Community and Service as well
because it is happening on our environment and it is a effect of what we are
doing for this to be happening. It has to do with health and social education because
we are learning about this problem and the whole purpose of wanting to clean
and cool up the air is for us to have a better life. And this also relates to community
and service because there are people out there, wanting to make a change and
making things and planning projects for us to change and for everyone to just live
on a better world.
Words:
Methane: A colorless, odorless, flammable gas that is the main constituent of
natural gas. Methane is a greenhouse gas, sometimes produced in the air when
natural gas does not burn completely.
Carbon dioxide: A colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic
compounds and by respiration. It is naturally present in air and is absorbed by
plants in photosynthesis.
Greenhouse gas: A gas that contributes to Earth’s greenhouse, or warming, effect by
absorbing heat.
Soot: A black, powdery or flaky substance consisting largely of carbon,
produced by the incomplete burning of organic matter, such as coal and wood.
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/01/climate-coolers/
