温室效应,气候变化和全球变暖的孩子

温室效应:科学家对温室效应肯定。他们知道,温室气体排放作出了滞留在大气中的能量,地球温暖。
气候变化:气候是一个地区的气候事件的长期平均水平混为一谈。例如,它可能是在布法罗,纽约,冬日阳光明媚and could是温和的,但平均天气 - 气候的 - 告诉我们说布法罗的冬天will主要是cold and include雪和雨。气候变化代表了这些长期天气模式的变化。他们可以变得温暖或寒冷。降雨或降雪量每年可以增加或减少。
全球变暖:全球变暖是指在地球的温度,从而导致气候变化的平均增幅。一个温暖的地球可能导致降雨模式,在海平面上升,以及对植物,野生动物影响的范围很大的变化,和人类。当科学家对气候变化问题的谈话,他们关心的是关于全球变暖由人类活动造成的。

Earth Day 2010, Talk to Your Kids About Pollution

It’s Earth Day 2010 and your kids are going to be hearing about it, at school, on their favorite TV shows, online, on the radio- everywhere. How do you talk to your kids about the importance of conservation and being earth-smart without scaring them? Some sources bombard our children with the message that [...]

Renewable energy; Searching for ENERGY IDEAS

Google, you’re wrong. According to a story in the Washington Post, Google’s green energy czar Bill Weihl told participants at the Reuters Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit that “there is a lack of companies that have ideas that would be considered breakthroughs in the green technology sector.”
Representing the company he noted, “I would say [...]

Greenhouse Effect, Climate Change, and Global Warming for kids

The Greenhouse Effect: Scientists are sure about the greenhouse effect. They know that greenhouse gases make the Earth warmer by trapping energy in the atmosphere.
Climate Change: Climate is the long-term average of a region’s weather events lumped together. For example, it’s possible that a winter day in Buffalo, New York, could be sunny and mild, [...]

Wind generators, considering…

Before considering a wind generator, there are many points to consider and many options to verify in order for effective use. The most important is to consider the amount of energy you need. For small power needs like battery charging, there are portable wind generators that will work in most areas like construction, camping, and [...]

Water pollution and ecology in China

Reduce pollution, let water find its own level.
The annual discharge of industrial wastewater and sewage in cities and township increased from 23.9 billion cubic meters in 1980 to 73.1 billion cu m in 2006. A huge volume of untreated wastewater is still being discharged into rivers.
As a result, water pollution has worsened in most rivers [...]

Renewable energy brings modern-day gold rush

President Barack Obama is encouraging this renewed interest in renewable energy by pumping more than $60 billion in federal investment toward stimulating the economy, creating jobs and advancing the nation’s ability to generate energy from wind, sun and plants.
By making substantial investments of their own in renewable energy research and commercialization, various states aim to [...]

beach pollution because wet summer

A total of 41 beaches have made it into the Good Beach Guide, three fewer than last year, and a drop of 15 from the all-time high in 2004.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) tested 109 beaches around Scotland’s coastline.
Storm-related pollution driven by poor weather has been blamed by the MCS.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) [...]

Toxic air pollutants

Toxic air pollutants, also known as hazardous air pollutants, are those pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects, such as reproductive effects or birth defects, or adverse environmental effects. EPA is working with state, local, and tribal governments to reduce air toxics releases of 187 pollutants to the [...]