How Does Oil Pollution Affect Global Warming??

Question

How Does Oil Pollution Affect Global Warming??

Answer 1

Rapeseed biofuel ‘produces more greenhouse gas than oil or petrol’

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...

Answer 2

Oil is Carbon dioxide.

It gets released into the atmosphere which stays there.

The IR radiation from the sun, comes through the atmoshphere, hits the ground to keep the earth warm (greenhouse effect), and then escapes again going out the atmosphere.

But the problem is, since we release too much carbon dioxide, nitrogen, etc., all of that blocks the IR radiation from getting out of the atmosphere.

So the earth gets warmer warmer and warmer.

We`re almost at a dangerous point!!!!!!

Please recycle and do stuff you`re supposed to do like, dont throw away bottles in the trash can!

recycle them. As well as cans.

I know, Im too lazy to do that stuff but you`ll regret when the HOT HOT HOT day comes! ;-)

I`m not saying you dont or anything.

But just incase you didnt or didnt know or something

Answer 3

thats a good question but i don't know sorry

Answer 4

Kind of depends what happens to it. If you mean something like an oil slick, usually oil spreads extremely fast on water, covering a very large area with a thin film of oil. This could then do a number of things:

1. It could oxidise somehow, including burning, which would produce CO2, and toxic pollutants. This would contribute to increased total greenhouse gasses, and thus to climate change. Some of the pollutants wouldn't affect the climate, as not all of them would be greenhouse gasses (although they could still effect the climate through killing plants and animals, which would release methane if they rot).

2. Some of the lighter molecules (like CFCs and HCFCs) would evaporate. Some of these are extremely potent greenhouse gasses (hundreds of times more warming potential, although less common, and therefore less worrying).

3. It could get eaten, or otherwise absorbed by life forms like birds, or fish. If these die and rot in the open air, then see 1 and 2. If they sink to the bottom of the ocean, river, lake, or land in an unstable geological area, or perhaps in a wetland or forest, it's possible they might be buried under sand and mud, and given the right circumstances, they might be buried permanently, meaning that the oil pollution would effectively be locked back under the earth's crust again.

Once Oil-derived greenhouse gasses are out in the biosphere, they basically have three paths: A) stay in the biosphere/atmosphere, B) through a chemical reaction be converted into some thing else (which may still be a greenhouse gas, or may be later re-converted into a greenhouse gas), or C) get buried under ground, and hence locked out of the biosphere/atmosphere.

So it's going to affect it. Ultimately my guess would be that in the long run, unburnt oil released into the atmophere/biosphere/hydrosphere would have only marginally less impact than the same amount of oil burnt and released into the atmosphere.

Answer 5

of course a lot.... oil decomposition gives away many carbon compontents dat are photophobic in nature, they reflect heat into the atmosphere again which are given away by earth.... this causes rise in temperature.... think off carbon monoxide, it is one of major component released during decomposition of oil (most of the vehicle emits), it contributes a rival share for global warming....