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Assignment
Topic: “Greenhouse Gas Emissions
and Control”

Ali
Course Title: Aerosols and Environmental
Health
Institute of Zoology, University of Punjab,
Lahore

Contents
⮚Summary
⮚Introduction
∙ Greenhouse effect
∙ Importance
⮚Greenhouse gases
⮚Sources of Greenhouse gases
∙ Natural
∙ Anthropogenic
⮚Enhanced greenhouse effect
⮚Consequences of Enhanced greenhouse effect
⮚Ways to Control Greenhouse gas emissions
⮚Mitigation strategies for GHGs emissions from agriculture ⮚
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)
⮚References

Summary
The greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the
Sun's heat
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Without the heating caused by the greenhouse effect, Earth’s average surface temperature
would be only about −18 °C (0 °F)
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Natural sources of emissions of gases to the atmosphere include respiration and
decomposition of plants and ocean
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Despite
carbon dioxide's low global warming potential among major greenhouse gases, the large
human-caused increase in its atmospheric concentration has caused the majority of global
warming
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The flooding of coastal cities, the desertification of
fertile areas, the melting of glacial asses and the proliferation of devastating hurricanes are
some of the main consequences
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We should minimise the amount of waste we produce, reusing products as much
as we can, and remembering to recycle any materials that can be used for a new purpose
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Carbon
capture and sequestration (CCS) is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO₂) formed
during power generation and industrial processes to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in
sedimentary rocks
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Introduction
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms the Earth’s surface
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The greenhouse effect occurs because the sun bombards Earth with enormous amounts of
radiation that strike Earth's atmosphere
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As Earth’s surface is heated by sunlight, it
radiates part of this energy back toward space as infrared radiation
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The heated
atmosphere in turn radiates infrared radiation back toward Earth’s surface

Greenhouse gases include water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and
some artificial chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
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His paper, published in the Philosophical Magazine and
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