There has been a huge amount written about Global Warming
and how it is effecting our lives now and what might happen in the
future. Some of the Superpowers are using their political muscle to promote the reduction of Greenhouse Gases and others to oppose it for whatever reasons. The fact is that the actions of the human race are damaging the earth in many ways.
Your Carbon Footprint is a measure of how your
business activities are affecting the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases
you produce per year, measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide.
What we do will not be significant in World Terms but reducing our carbon
emissions and offsetting the remainder of our Carbon Footprint is a
proactive way of helping the world. We are planting woodlands and growing
Bio Fuels to offset our Carbon Footprint plus we have Offsets
available for you to buy to offset your Carbon Footprint. Our joint actions
will also make other people aware of the effects of their actions.
Human activity increases the greenhouse effect
primarily through release of carbon dioxide, but human influences on other
greenhouse gases can also be important.
Some of the main sources of greenhouse gases due to human activity
include: burning of fossil fuels and deforestation leading to higher carbon
dioxide concentrations; livestock and paddy rice farming, land use and
wetland changes, pipeline losses, and covered vented landfill emissions
leading to higher methane atmospheric concentrations. Many of the newer
style fully vented septic systems that enhance and target the fermentation
process also are major sources of atmospheric methane; use of
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigeration systems, and use of CFCs and
halons in fire suppression systems and manufacturing processes. agricultural
activities, including the use of fertilizers, that lead to higher nitrous
oxide concentrations.
The seven sources of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion are (with percentage
contributions for 2000-2004:
Solid fuels (e.g. coal): 35%
Liquid fuels (e.g. petrol): 36%
Gaseous fuels (e.g. natural gas): 20%
Flaring gas industrially and at wells: <1%
Cement production: 3% Non-fuel hydrocarbons: <1%
The "international bunkers" of shipping and air transport not included in
national inventories: 4%
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