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Climate Change and Carbon Credits

Welcome to CimateInvestors.com. We are a group of people who are committed to raising awareness about the dire straits we are in, not only as a species, but as a planet. However, it is not enough to make people aware of the problem, and so we are equally committed to bringing you solutions to our dependency on fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenhouse gasses take their name from the gardening building that goes by the same. In a greenhouse, glass panels trap the heat from the sun within an enclosed space. This has a variety of uses in gardening, ranging from raising tropical plants in Minnesota, to protecting your harvest from early frosts.

Greenhouse gasses actually accomplish the same function within our planet’s atmosphere. They are gasses that absorb thermal and ultraviolet radiation from the sun. The radiation they absorb is effectively trapped within our atmosphere, increasing the surface temperature of the earth. These gasses include ozone, which is also known as trioxide, or O3; carbon dioxide, or CO2; and methane, or CH4. These gasses react to a variety of bandwidths within the spectrum of sunlight, each gas absorbing radiation from a different slice of the spectrum.

While some greenhouse gasses are necessary for our continued existence, an overabundance of them effectively dials up the thermostat on the earth. You may recall the hole in the ozone layer that meteorologists discovered in the early 1990’s. The discovery of this hole prompted a more in depth investigation into our earth’s atmosphere, what it was made of, and how it affected us. When the results of this study were combined with climate data over the past 200 years, an alarming trend appeared.

The results of the study itself found that the atmosphere was responsible for maintaining a higher than normal temperature on the surface of the planet. The rationale behind that has already been covered. But the alarming part came when we noticed that the average temperature over the past century has risen significantly. This climate change set up the stage for the great debate on whether or not global warming exists.

This debate has slowly (and painfully) shifted from whether or not global warming is real, to whether or not we are responsible for it. It is currently shifting from that towards what, if anything, we should do if we are responsible. As an individual, you cannot single handedly save the planet. However you can do your part to mitigate the release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Simple things that can save significant amounts of energy include turning off lights and appliances when they aren’t in use, using more moderate settings on your thermostat, and driving a car with better gas mileage. You can also find a variety of green and solar products online.

But those things alone won’t be enough in the long run. Bigger changes such as the shift from burning fossil fuels to renewable energy are necessary. Already solar power, hydroelectric power, and wind power from a wind turbine make a significant contribution to the global power grid, but those sources need to be increased many times over to help right the balance of nature.

And rest assured nature will find a way to right the balance. The real question for us is whether we will be around to see balance restored. As a species we want to be there, and as individuals, we must do what we can to ensure that happens.

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Climate Change and Carbon Credits

Welcome to CimateInvestors.com. We are a group of people who are committed to raising awareness about the dire straits we are in, not only as a species, but as a planet. However, it is not enough to make people aware of the problem, and so we are equally committed to bringing you solutions to our dependency on fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenhouse gasses take their name from the gardening building that goes by the same. In a greenhouse, glass panels trap the heat from the sun within an enclosed space. This has a variety of uses in gardening, ranging from raising tropical plants in Minnesota, to protecting your harvest from early frosts.

Greenhouse gasses actually accomplish the same function within our planet’s atmosphere. They are gasses that absorb thermal and ultraviolet radiation from the sun. The radiation they absorb is effectively trapped within our atmosphere, increasing the surface temperature of the earth. These gasses include ozone, which is also known as trioxide, or O3; carbon dioxide, or CO2; and methane, or CH4. These gasses react to a variety of bandwidths within the spectrum of sunlight, each gas absorbing radiation from a different slice of the spectrum.

While some greenhouse gasses are necessary for our continued existence, an overabundance of them effectively dials up the thermostat on the earth. You may recall the hole in the ozone layer that meteorologists discovered in the early 1990’s. The discovery of this hole prompted a more in depth investigation into our earth’s atmosphere, what it was made of, and how it affected us. When the results of this study were combined with climate data over the past 200 years, an alarming trend appeared.

The results of the study itself found that the atmosphere was responsible for maintaining a higher than normal temperature on the surface of the planet. The rationale behind that has already been covered. But the alarming part came when we noticed that the average temperature over the past century has risen significantly. This climate change set up the stage for the great debate on whether or not global warming exists.

This debate has slowly (and painfully) shifted from whether or not global warming is real, to whether or not we are responsible for it. It is currently shifting from that towards what, if anything, we should do if we are responsible. As an individual, you cannot single handedly save the planet. However you can do your part to mitigate the release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Simple things that can save significant amounts of energy include turning off lights and appliances when they aren’t in use, using more moderate settings on your thermostat, and driving a car with better gas mileage. You can also find a variety of green and solar products online.

But those things alone won’t be enough in the long run. Bigger changes such as the shift from burning fossil fuels to renewable energy are necessary. Already solar power, hydroelectric power, and wind power from a wind turbine make a significant contribution to the global power grid, but those sources need to be increased many times over to help right the balance of nature.

And rest assured nature will find a way to right the balance. The real question for us is whether we will be around to see balance restored. As a species we want to be there, and as individuals, we must do what we can to ensure that happens.