Climate Change And Green House Gases - 1690 Words

Earth today is different from what it was before urbanization and industrialization. We have more and more environmental issues are coming from every corner. Humans are no longer living in a world where the environment is stable, but rather becoming unnatural and failing before our eyes. Environmental issues like global worming, climate change and green house gases are becoming more popular. Global worming or green house gases are happening because of issues like over use of fossil fuels - natural gas in producing of electricity. Natural gas is one of the big contributors in this process. Everyone seem to be in favor of natural gas because it is cheap to produce and pollute less, but disregard that it also create the gases and pollute†¦show more content†¦Using the concept of framing I like to pose my argument explaining the other side of natural gas problem, which is about how natural gas is bad for environment. Also using Scientific dates and information I am going to try to prove how unscrupulous fracking/hydrofracking can be bad for people’s health, water, air and for earth it self. Natural gas is a when layers of buried plants and animals are exposed to intense heat and pressure over thousands of years. The energy that the plants and animals originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of carbon in natural gas. Natural gas is combusted to generate electricity, enabling this stored energy to be transformed into usable power. Which is why Natural gas is second most used energy source in America, about 29% of the electricity is generated using natural gas (New York Times). The average emissions rates in the United States from natural gas-fired generation are: 1135 lbs/MWh of carbon dioxide, 0.1 lbs/MWh of sulfur dioxide, and 1.7 lbs/MWh of nitrogen oxides. Compared to the average air emissions from coal-fired generation, natural gas produces half as much carbon dioxide, less than a third as much nitrogen oxides, and one percent as much sulfur oxides at the power plant (epa.gov). All of these gases are big part of green gases In addition; the process of extraction, treatment, and transport of the natural gas to the power plant generates additional