Chapter 1- Reliance on Fossil Fuels Flashcards
What’s a renewable energy source?
A natural source of energy that doesn’t affect the environment or produce and CO2 emissions, eg. wind, waves
What’s a non-renewable energy source?
An energy source that produces carbon emissions and cannot be replenished within a human life time.
Principal fossil fuels
Coal, oil natural gas
Formation of oil and gas
1) Plants and animals die and buried on ocean floor
2) Remains buried deeper, pressure and heats changes them into oil + gas
Coal Formation
1) Plants die in swamps
2) Plants buried under water and dirt
3) Heat and pressure changes them to coal
Uses of coal and primary users
Electricity generation, steel production
China, Japan and India
Uses of oil and primary users
Heat generation, plastics and synthetic materials
Iran, USA
Uses for natural gas and primary users
Vehicles, heading, electricity generation
What’s the world’s energy produced from fossil fuel percentage
87%
What’s the IPCC?
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
What was Working Group 1 studying?
Physical science bias
What was Working Group 2 studying?
Impacts, Adaption and vulnerability
What was Working Group 3 studying?
Migration of Climate Change
What’s Carbon Trading?
Established in Kyoto Protocol. Agreeing countries are assigned maximum carbon emissions. Emitting more would cause that company o be penalized with a lowered limit the next year. If a country emits less than their cap then they can sell these as carbon units.
What’s an Annex 1 country?
Developed nations, limitations only placed on these
