An American scientist named Eunice Foote had documented the fundamental cause of today’s climate change crisis. In 1856, she had described in her scientific paper about the extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas that could absorb heat, which had ultimately led to global warming.

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Scientist, Eunice Foote had described the power of CO2 that can absorb heat
Tata Steel is considered to be the biggest emitter of CO2 in UK
It is converting carbon emissions from their blast furnaces into useful chemicals

In order to get a better understanding on the heat absorption of carbon dioxide, Foote has conducted a simple experiment. She had taken two glass cylinders one pumped with carbon dioxide gas and the other with air, later she put a thermometer in each of the glass cylinders and had set the cylinders in the Sun. It was later observed that the cylinder that contained carbon dioxide got much hotter than the air one, and Foote realized that carbon dioxide would strongly absorb heat in the atmosphere. Well, the discovery led her to conclude that “if the air had mixed with it a higher proportion of carbon dioxide than at present, then there is an increased temperature.”

After a few years, in 1861 one well-known Irish scientist John Tyndall has also measured the heat absorption of carbon dioxide and seemed to be so surprised that something “so transparent to light” was able to strongly absorb heat that “made me to do several hundred experiments with this single substance.”

Well, the scientist had also recognized the possible effects on the climate, mentioning that “every variation” of water vapor or carbon dioxide “must produce a change of climate.” He was found to make a note of the contribution of other hydrocarbon gases, such as methane, which could gradually cause climate change, he described the way “an almost inappreciable addition” of gases like methane would actually have “greater effects on climate.”

In today’s scenario the climate change has become a major challenge in the world. Carbon dioxide has been playing a major role in climate change since its inception. Especially, the emission of gases from big factories and industries having playing a vast role in rapid climate change in all over the world. These emitted gases have been leading to several mental and physical illnesses among the citizens of worldwide. Every sector, company, state, country has been taking measurable steps or introducing the ways to reduce or eliminate this worldwide problem.

One of a well-known industry, Tata Steel have been working on the ways they could convert the carbon emissions from their blast furnaces into chemicals which would be less harmful for the people as well as environment. Well, this technology has been working successfully. As Tata Steel being the biggest emitter of CO2 in UK, it has been found that it has already taken help of this step along with other steps in order to reduce the harmful impact on the planet.

In the Tata Steel industry, a huge pipe takes away the gases produced in the blast furnace to other parts but a small pipe would guide some of those gases into the testing area. Then it climate-damaging gases could be found into acetic acids that can be used by manufacturers in different industries. The gases would then enter a metal reactor which would be about 4ft (1.2 metres) tall where they get mixed with the live microbes taken from 'sewage sludge' or poo. They are basically the little bacteria that would swim around in the reactor and would eat away the gases and make acetic acid. Therefore, it is turning the CO2 into a useful product, rather than releasing it into the atmosphere which would cause damage to the Earth.

According to researchers, this process would be very useful to get rid of the CO2 those were coming from the chimneys of many different industries. It is considered to be a climate change solution, which would be known as 'Carbon Capture and Use.”

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