Permafrost

Sending food to landfills generates an enormous amount of methane. In 1996, the EPA started to take action to deal with this problem. The EPA forced those largest landfills to install gas-collection systems in order to reduce air pollutant (Bloom 16). They would collect those methane and then “convert that captured methane into energy and, sometimes, renewable energy credits" (Bloom 17). However, today, more than half of all landfills keep letting those methane escape because they are the small and medium-sized landfills, they are not asked to collect methane (Bloom 17). According to Bloom, even though some of the landfills collect methane, they would just simply burn it off (17). This process of handling does reduce the methane, but it produces a large amount of less harmful carbon dioxide, which is also a part of greenhouse gases (17). The more greenhouse gases are produced, the warmer earth will become. From the lecture slides, we know that increases in greenhouse gases are changing our world profoundly. It will cause the dramatic events happened more frequently and it will badly affect

Methane has a global warming potential 20 times higher than carbon dioxide. ”("5 Ways Factory Farming Is Killing the Environment.") The farms are a threat to the very planet we live on.

Since the mining of Natural gases and energy, Emissions of greenhouse gasses have been slowly releasing into the atmosphere. This happens by burning the natural gases to create energy for our vehicles or even lawnmowers. On Earth we utilize a lot of energy to maintain a lifestyle we know and love today. But most forms of energy, cars and Farming produce large amounts of green-house gases that can heat and change the earth's atmosphere permanently and cause the ice caps to slowly melt because of constant heating.

The rising heat levels from burning coal, oil and petroleum (cars) is having a huge influence on the planet as a whole, but most specifically the Arctic Tundra region. The planet has warmed up 0.5 degrees since global warming was first discovered and diagnosed, and, although that number might seem very minimal now, it is actually a huge jump in comparison to normalcy. This unnatural, manmade warmth has caused Arctic Tundra ice to melt, raising the oceans and flooding people’ homes and villages. This also destroys the Arctic Tundra area, due to the fact that there will be less and less ice, and thus less and less habitat for the animals that live in the Arctic Tundra area. This leads to the slow destruction and melt of planet Earth. The Arctic Tundra region is wholly an area of freshwater, locked up by permafrost. But now it is melting, going from beauteous ice to water. And there are some people who simply don’t care, like Donald Trump. They seem to think that as long as they can make as much money as possible, then the environment doesn’t matter, which is obviously not true. Humans actually need to care now, today, not a hundred years into the future when the average temperature is 35 degrees on a normal day. This is one of the possible, albeit farfetched, implications of continuing processing plants and coal mines. The smog and heat they produce is detrimental in every single way to the Arctic Tundra region. Global warming is the second and largest danger the Arctic Tundra region

The facts are that the rate that permafrost regions release any stored carbon dioxide depends on how fast the organic material in the frozen ground decomposes. That also depends on what the dirt is made up of, if the soil is well drained, for instance, it releases carbon as carbon dioxide, while if it is poorly drained, it could release a more dangerous form of carbon turned into methane gases. Scientists believe that some of the frozen permafrost regions have been frozen for more than 11,000 years, while others have unthawed at various other

Global warming persists as one of the world’s biggest issues today that is causing several problems that include the world’s severe climate and rising sea levels while possibly being the main cause as to why all of mankind could go extinct. This global crisis is known as the steady increase in the world’s average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans that are proven to be permanently changing the world’s climate (Live Science, 2014). This phenomenon is strongly evident as Earth’s temperature has also increased by 2 degrees Celsius since the last century. As a result of this, Canadian glaciers are melting at a higher rate of 2 to 3 feet than of what it was a decade before (Lerner, 2014). All astoundingly happening while the Artic Canadian permafrost has begun to melt (Davidson,2015). The state of this issue in Canada does not seem to be improving as validated through both the scientific evidence as well as the blatant and irrefutable observable evidence.

As a result, humans are slowly destroying the bear's ability to reproduce, and function in a normal way. By removing chemicals such as mercury, DDT, PCBs and lindane to name a few from our waste it is possible that the world may be able to retain our population of arctic polar bears, and preserve the beautiful creature for generations to come. Alternatively, people should use this as a warning of things to come if they continue to be so irresponsible about their waste. The implications to other ecosystems could be sufficiently more devastating than what is being witnessed in the arctic, and it is humanity's responsibility to take action now before it is too

Officials in the Obama administration are nearly ready to unveil their unprecedented regulation of the oil and gas industries by ordering the reduction of methane emissions in the United States by 40 to 45 percent within the next ten years. Such a drastic alteration would significantly change how natural gas is produced and consumed and transform the entire electric industry in the country, potentially shifting its reliance on fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. Though methane constitutes only nine percent of emissions, far less than carbon dioxide, it has over twenty times the effect toward global warming as carbon dioxide has and is therefore important to regulate. Also, the Obama administration has initiated reductions in emission

Some small, day-to-day things you can do to help are finding alternatives to driving as much as possible, make energy efficiency a dominant factor when choosing appliances, turn lights off when not using them, recycle, use less water when cleaning yourself or your home, eat locally produced food, and more. Cars release high levels of carbon dioxide, so doing things like walking to work, carpooling, and riding on public transportation instead of driving yourself everywhere. The more energy you use, the more carbon you’re putting into the atmosphere so using energy efficient appliances, saving water, recycling, turning lights off when you don’t need them, and eating locally produced foods will reduce your carbon footprint. It takes a great deal of energy to ship foods from long distances; keep lights and household appliances running; and clean, distribute, and pump water through our homes. Some large things you can do are stop deforestation, get our elected leaders involved and fight misinformation. Deforestation is said to account for 10 percent of the world's “heat-trapping emissions” (Union)

The sudden surge in greenhouse gases has caused a chain reaction of unpleasant events. As frozen tundras melt due to the increase of temperature, methane trapped beneath the surface is released into the atmosphere. However, humans are the biggest suspect of this global change. We burn hundreds of thousands tons of fossil fuels everyday. Even if we stopped emitting these gases, this trend would continue. If not regulated, we will be unable to eventually stop the bowling ball of global warming as it hammers towards

Tundra, as one of the most sensitive environments, is extremely threatened and endangered. As a consequence of the cold climate, global warming drastically affects the tundra. The effect of humans on tundra environments is also very damaging. Humans develop and damage the natural area, and pollute the air. (National Geographic, 2013)

According to Krupp methane pollution is responsible of 25% of the warming our planet and it is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the short term. And that’s why methane leaks should have more media attention, maybe it’s not as destructive as a war happening someplace, but it’s damaging our atmosphere and polluting

If permafrost in Northern Ontario thaws, methane will exacerbate rising temperatures, which in turns creates a positive feedback loop. For remote Northern Ontario First Nation communities like Fort Severn, the release of methane into the atmosphere will not propose direct impacts on the population. However, the ongoing positive feedback loop will ultimately affect the community in the future. If methane contributes to rising temperatures through an ongoing cycle, this can have detrimental effects on their winter roads by permanently removing them from the landscape.

The third medium explored as a heat sink for the heat exchanger is permafrost. Permafrost is soil that is frozen year round. The top layer of permafrost experiences an active change in temperature over the year. However, the permafrost retains a constant annual temperature a couple meters below the surface. The constant below freezing temperature of the permafrost makes it a potential heat sink for the heat exchanger.

The concept of global warming has become one of the most widely debated and controversial topics of our time. Scientists learned long ago that the earth’s climate has powerfully shaped the history of humanity. However, it is only in the past few decades that research has revealed that humans have a significant influence on the climate as well. A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that since 1950, the world’s climate has been warming, primarily as a result of emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of tropical forests. More importantly, an article titled "Global Warming" published in the New York Times shows that methane, a gas that is emitted from landfills, livestock and oil gas facilities,