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Global warming is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere from human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation. This traps heat and raises the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere and oceans. The effects of global warming include rising sea levels, changes in weather patterns, and more extreme climate events. Responses to address global warming involve mitigation efforts to reduce emissions, adaptation to climate impacts, geoengineering techniques, and frameworks like the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol.
Climate Change
May 2024. Climate change is a long-term shift in weather conditions, causing sea level rise and global warming.
Climate change is caused by greenhouse gases (GHGs), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxide.
Indicators of climate change include greenhouse gas concentrations, global air temperatures, sea levels, and glacier melting rates.
Effects of climate change include rising global air and ocean temperatures, melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, biodiversity loss, deforestation, floods, and droughts.
Climate change mitigation strategies include renewable energy, electric vehicles, reforestation, pollution reduction, clean, sustainable fuels, carbon capture technologies, and a circular economy.
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- 1. CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN SOILS By H.SAI NADH DORA(13331A0816) ARUNENDRA YADAV(1331A0803) B KUSUM KUMAR(1331AO804) DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MVGR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING(AUTONOMOUS) VIZIANAGARAM
- 2. INTRODUCTION In pre-industrial times, every million molecules of air contained about 280 molecules of carbon dioxide. Today that proportion exceeds 380 molecules per million. If carbon dioxide levels continue upward, further warming could have dire consequences, resulting from rising sea levels, agriculture disruptions, and stronger storms (e.g. hurricanes) striking more often. Fossil fuels, which provide about 85 percent of the world’s energy, are made of hydrocarbons, and burning them releases huge quantities of carbon dioxide.
- 3. Strategies to Reduce Atmospheric CO2 Strategies Reduce fossil fuel consumption Identify sinks and sequestration rate Improve efficiency Renewable energy sources Terrestrial Aquatic Soils Plants Geologic
- 4. WHAT IS CARBON SEQUESTRATION ? Carbon sequestration is capturing the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels and storing it safely away from the atmosphere.
- 5. HOW DO WE CAPTURE CO2 ? There are several processes that captures CO2 some of them are: Commercial Carbonization in beverage industries , dry ice manufacturing. Crystal structure of dry iceCarbonated water
- 6. Conservation tillage Cover crops Soil organic matter TECHNIQUES TO ENHANCE CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN SOILS Crop rotation
- 7. Why Tillage Eliminate soil compaction Control weeds Eliminate residue Harbor insects and diseases Tie up fertilizer N Barrier for herbicide What hard working people do Sense of accomplishment Cleansing operation Why not? Because it causes soil erosion and reduces soil organic matter
- 8. Soil Organic Matter (Humus) CO2 product energy Climate ManagementSoil Type
- 9. Potential cost of soil sequestration of soil Nitrogen fertilizer Nitrogen fertilizer can increase soil organic matter because nitrogen is often limited in agro ecosystems. Growing plants on semi-arid lands Growing plants on semiarid lands has been suggested as a way to increase carbon storage in soils.
- 10. Burning coal with pure oxygen rather than atmospheric air. Replacing smoke stacks with absorption tower
- 11. CONCLUSION Carbon sequestration can be done to reduce the carbon content in atmosphere but not totally. Apart from reducing the global CO2 levels, soils carbon sequestration is a strategy to achieve food security through improvement in soil quality. Carbon sequestration will enable us increase and maintain retention time of CO2 in soils, water bodies etc.
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