Untitled document Essays - Chemistry, Greenhouse Gases, Matter

Human Sources To produce electricity that we use in abundance in our everyday lives we need to use coal coal is a fossil fuel and is also one of the worst. Another foswsil fossil fuel we use more and more of each day is petroleum. Most of the petroleum gets burned for transportation, but also is used in the industrial and manufacturing industries. Agriculture uses fossil fuels abundantly because of a common type of farming used by big companies, it is industrial farming. Industrial farming treats a farm like an industry, it does the work as fast and cheap as possible. This requires the machinery to use mass amounts of fossil fuels. Natural Sources The main natural sources of CO2 from fossil fuels are decomposition, carbonates that are under our earths crust, ocean release and volcanoes. Decomposition is when animals or living organisms die then slowly decompose into our earth's ground. The carbonates that are under our earths crust eventually get oxidized and create mass amounts of CO2 at a time. The mass amount of water on our planet also known as oceans. The CO2 surfaces on top of the ocean where they usually turn into organic matter for plants to conduct photosynthesis. Although volcanoes are ideal for many years the times they aren't they emit huge tons of CO2. The GWP of CO2 is 1 because it is a marker for other things such as methane and nitrouse oxide