Resource Letter GECC-1: The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change: Earth's Natural Greenhouse Effect

Evidence provided by the scientific community strongly suggests that limits should be placed on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This means that states, firms, and individuals will have to face potentially serious burdens if they are to implement these limits. Which principles of justice should guide a global regime aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions originating from human activities, and most notably from CO2 emissions? This is both a crucial and difficult question. Admittedly, perhaps this question is too ambitious, given the uncertainties and complexities characterizing the issue of climate change. Yet, rather than listing them all at this stage, let us address the question in a straightforward manner, introducing some of these complexities as the need arises.

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GHG emissions in KG-CO2 / M2 generated by a House Type INFONAVIT

ECORFAN Journal Republic of Nicaragua ◽

10.35429/ejrn.2019.8.5.15.28 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 10-23

Author(s):

Humberto Aceves-Gutierrez ◽

Oscar López-Chávez ◽

Santa Magdalena Mercado-Ibarra ◽

Cesar Alejandro Contreras-Quintanar

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Urban Growth ◽

Greenhouse Effect ◽

Human Population ◽

Building Materials ◽

Ghg Emissions ◽

Iso 14040 ◽

Fundamental Factor ◽

The Earth

Climate change is one of the main current problems, it concerns the entire human population since its effects are worldwide, especially now we have seen its consequences, according to Menghi (2007), the average global temperatures grew by more than 0.5 ° C in the last century, and the glaciers are disappearing from the earth. The greenhouse effect generated mainly by the gases of the same name (GHG), is the fundamental factor of climate change. Construction is one of the ways in which the human being contaminates in a constant way this due to urban growth and the demand for infrastructure that this generates. This research has the purpose of determining the KG-CO2 / M2 generated by a 44 m2 house of interest type INFONAVIT using the Life Cycle methodology (ACV) of the products or materials, established in ISO 14040, employee an inventory of KG-CO2 emissions from building materials, obtained from various bibliographic sources and databases and using the work volumes required to build the house. The results obtained of 161.57 Kg-CO2 / M2.

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Climate change and the greenhouse effect

10.1007/springerreference_30299 ◽

2011 ◽

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Greenhouse Effect

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Visualizing the Greenhouse Effect: Restructuring Mental Models of Climate Change Through a Guided Online Simulation

Education Sciences ◽

10.3390/educsci9010014 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 14 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ian Thacker ◽

Gale Sinatra

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Greenhouse Effect ◽

Research Study ◽

Visual Representations ◽

Learning Trajectory ◽

Causal Inferences ◽

Design Based Research ◽

Online Simulation

The purpose of this design based research study was to better understand and build from students’ perceptual experiences of visual representations of the greenhouse effect. Twenty undergraduate students were interviewed as they engaged with an online visualization for the learning of the greenhouse effect. We found that, even though all students agreed that climate change is happening, a majority initially held a misconception about how it works. Upon engaging with the visualization, students made perceptual inferences and formulated causal rules that culminated in an improved description of how climate change works. This trajectory was supported with prompts from the interviewer to make predictions, observe specific interactions in the visualization and revise their causal inferences based on these observations. A case study is presented to illustrate a typical learning trajectory.

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