Environmental Problems

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Environmental Problems
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Principles of Environmental Problems

• Reciprocating effects
• Organisms require constant inputs of E
• Evolution rewards efficiency of E use

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Central tenet of environmental problems

• All environmental problems are related to
  production and use of energy

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US population and E use
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US population and E use
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US and WV E use
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US and WV E use
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Air Pollution

• Define
• Forms
• gases
• aerosols
• Types
• Primary (1o)
• Secondary (2o)
• Factors
• residence time
• weather/topography

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The atmosphere
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The tropospherewhere we live
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Inversion layer
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Inversion layer
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Inversion layer
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Coastal inversion layer
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Pollutants

• SO2
• NOx
• CO2
• toxic metalsHg