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Greenhouse gases
- So what are these greenhouse gases?
Water vapour; carbon dioxide; methane; nitrous oxide and
ozone.
- How do greenhouse gases absorb the infrared radiation?
Climate Change: Carbon footprints and cycles
Anthropogenic CO2
The global budget of CO2 for the 1980s showing average annual
values in GtC y-1.
Climate Change: Carbon footprints and cycles
Carbon footprints
What do you think should be taken into account when
calculating your carbon footprint?
Now take a look at the carbon calculator.
Climate Change: Carbon footprints and cycles
Reducing emissions
How might you reduce emissions of carbon dioxide?
(on a personal level rather than industrially based)
Think about what you now know about the carbon cycle and
what affects your footprint?
Climate Change: Carbon footprints and cycles
Further Resources
If you have found this session interesting why not try a course with
the Open University
Please go to www3.open.ac.uk/study for further details or call 44(0)
845 300 60 90
http://climateprediction.net/ a project launched in September 2003
to explore the uncertainty in climate model predictions by using
distributed computing.
Calculate your carbon footprint online at:
http://www.bp.com/iframe.do?categoryId=9032780&contentId=7
060112
http://www.safeclimate.net/calculator/