Because CO2 traps and holds heat, the more CO2 in the atmosphere, the more heat is retained and the higher the average temperature of the planet.The planet Venus, which is almost the same size as Earth but is closer to the Sun, has an atmosphere that is 96 percent carbon dioxide. This...
Jim Skea, who took over last July as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that he was “surprised, in one sense”, that the average global temperature last year exceeded the 1.5C threshold set out in the Paris agreement. /jlne.ws/3IAhDSM *** Seems like the ...
Some other methods employed for safer oil spill cleanups from the sea are hot water washing or washing with high-pressure water, manual labour, bioremediation, and natural recovery. With high-pressure sprayers, water at about 170-degree Celsius is sprayed. This hot water flushes the oil to the...