...Climate Change Have you ever thought about climate change,Im here to clear that up. The problem with climate change is that “We have long droughts and winters.” -Josh Lederman .And the second problem with climate change “The bad wildfires that we have.” -Josh Lederman. The third problem with climate change is “Extreme weather is already hurting farmers and putting ranchers out of business.” - Josh Lederman The causes of climate change could be lots of things like pollution and human causes. The first cause of climate change is the “increasing livestock production”-Anonymous The manure from livestock creates gases in the atmosphere that causes climate change. A second cause of climate change could be “the burning of coal ,oil,and gases.”-Anonymous...
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...Two of the most prominent disturbances to trees are wildfire and bark beetles in the Northwest United states. Over the years, millions of acres of timberland and forest have been damaged or destroyed due to wildfires and bark beetles. Both of these disturbances are brought about by climate and stand conditions. The future forecast for climate changes suggest that there will be an increase in wildfires and also the bark beetle outbreaks. These disturbances affect the water quantity, wildlife, and timber production but with the combination of bark beetle cause tree mortality and wildfires there will be more combustible fuels for fires to feed off of. Effects of the combination could mean larger and hotter crown fires in forests infected by bark...
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...Canada Climate Treaty Negotiation Kamilah, Gage, & Angelina Some Information about Canada How would certain climate change measures (limiting emissions, reducing or eliminating fossil fuel use, etc…) affect Canada? Large portions of forest are destroyed by wildfires that are caused by droughts. Limiting the emissions and trying to reduce fossil fuels will help stop the droughts. Regarding energy, Canada has huge coal deposits throughout which would probably have to be limited. However, they have a backup that they already have in play. Most of Canada’s energy comes from the renewable resource hydro-electricity. Hydro plants can be found in every province but one. Canada also has the third largest oil patch in the world and much of the country’s...
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...Climate Change A current threat to the Mojave desert is climate change. Climate change has an enormous effect on the Mojave desert. These higher temperatures cause a drought which then dries up the area causing the whole desert to be extremely dry. “Higher temperatures may produce an increasing number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses”(Desert threats). This is a threat since it kills off and harms other animals that might be endangered. This accentuates the importance of the threats in the Mojave desert and it causes an extreme amount of damage to the environment. The climate change causes tons upon tons of problems. One of these problems is...
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...notice. Photos courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management Map courtesy of Cartesia Map Art US Terrain Bureau of Land Management Sites in Arizona description of the physical attributes The Bureau of Land Management oversees 12.2 million surface acres of land (and another 17.5 million subsurface acres) in Arizona. Some of this property is organized as designated wilderness, wilderness study area, National Conservation Area and National Monument but a large part of the property held by the BLM is essentially empty and available for most public uses ("Abandoned Mine Lands", 2014). The Bureau of Land Management’s Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) program enhances public safety and improves water quality by reducing or eliminating the effects of past hardrock mining in the western United States. BLM maintains an inventory of known abandoned mine lands on public lands ("Abandoned Mine Lands", 2014). Most of the sites are abandoned hardrock mines. As of April 18, 2014, the inventory contained nearly 46,000 sites and 85,000 features. Approximately 23% of the sites have either been remediated, have reclamation actions planned or underway, or do not require further action. The remaining 80% require further investigation and/or remediation ("Abandoned Mine Lands", 2014). The BLM and its partners are working on sharing and displaying AML spatial data within a National Mine Land Inventory. BLM and its “Cooperative Conservation” partners mitigate hazards to protect public health and...
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...How Do We Stop it and The Effects it has on our World Jay A. Clemons ITT-Technical Institute – West Palm Beach Campus (Global Warming, 2014) Global Warming: How Do We Stop it and The Effects it has on our World Throughout Earths long history the planet has cooled and wormed several times, such as, the great Ice Age, the volcanic activity when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and the apparent meteor that hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. Some of these have been caused by shifts in the Earth’s orbit, or from a meteor that may have hit the planet or volcanic activity causing massive clouds of dust and debris to block out the sun. Now for the last century we have forced the Earth’s next warming trend. Since humans have started using fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases, the Earth has started its next warming trend. (Table 1) Carbon dioxide and methane gases have increased in the upper atmosphere causing it to absorb more heat, which increases the Earth’s temperature. This warming triggers many undesirable effects on the planet. Literature Review Have you noticed that the severity of the weather on our planet in the last thirty to forty years has changed dramatically? Such as, record droughts, increased tornado activity, rising ocean levels, severe periods of heat and cold. These are being caused by the excesses of humanity. The use of fossil fuels, gas and oil, the cutting down of trees in the rainforests and elsewhere, wildfires in our forests caused by lightning...
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...Although the Canadian government has a plan for the future effects of climate change many other sources have discussed how Canada is not ready for what is to come. Research has uncovered that while canada is doing lots of things to help prevent climate change they aren’t doing a lot to prepare for the negative effects of climate change that they are too late to prevent. So far the Canadian government has done many things to help avoid the negative effects of climate change. They have joined in on the paris agreement ( working on renewable energy and reducing canada's eco-footprint). The government also banned dumping grey water into the arctic ocean to help conserve the marine animals habitat. As well a big thing that the canadian government did very recently along with the united states was put a ban to oil drilling in the arctic. To prepare for many arctic animals...
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...Tips to Decrease Global Warming Global warming is impacting the world by increasing the average global temperature and causing many changes that are not visibly noticeable. These changes are costing us our healthy planet and safer world because of the serious effects it has on the climate and our lives. The causes of global warming can be reduced by taking action and altering our life styles in several ways. Taking action to help minimize global warming will have a huge impact on the amount of man-made air pollution that is produced. Global warming is the reason for the warmer climate on Earth. “There are more and more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, more heat is trapped which makes the Earth warmer… known as Global warming” (Greenhouse Effect). Our actions on Earth are one of the variables that contribute to global warming and will affect the Earth if continued at the current rate. It has already shown noticeable consequences to our climate, surroundings and weather. “There has been three periods of global warming since 1850; the most recent warming was originally thought to have been caused by emissions by man of carbon dioxide” (Global Warming Science). Between these three periods the Earth cooled leading to the changes in climate “for the past 11,000 years” according to Global Science. Global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect which is the cycle of light, heat of the Earth’s surface and Earth’s atmosphere. “The greenhouse gases reach the Earth’s surface, some...
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...renewed and change in a new environment after an old one has been ravage by fire. It may also be a mix in between the two extremes. Fire can be started naturally in nature or it can be man made. It has a profound influence in how the environment can change and evolve if a fire is started in ecosystems such as forests. They are powerful and are a part of nature; therefore...
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...consequences of the enhanced greenhouse effect and global climate change Figure [ 1 ] - The greenhouse effect diagram, http://www.ozcoasts.gov.au/indicators/images/oze_fs_009_02.jpg Figure [ 1 ] - The greenhouse effect diagram, http://www.ozcoasts.gov.au/indicators/images/oze_fs_009_02.jpg “The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern” (American Geophysical Union, 2014). The Earth's surface temperature has to be just right for humans, not too cold and not too hot. Thanks to the natural greenhouse effect, which has kept the Earth warm. It’s a phenomenon where the earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation, caused by the presence in the atmosphere of gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane that allow incoming sunlight to pass through but absorb heat radiated back from the earth's surface. As there are naturally occurring greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that help keep the Earth warm, added amounts of these gases leads to extra heat being trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere. These gases (carbon dioxide, methane etc.) are being added by human activities and are enhancing the greenhouse effect as shown in figure 1. The global climate change is causing many environmental consequences and will cause more. There are five gases that contribute to the enhanced greenhouse effect. These five gases are water vapour...
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...Climate Change: Debate Unit Research Design Journal Marco Palomares [Working Families] Mr. Delcambre Professional Communications 1B April 20th, 2017 Introduction Since the 1760s, fossil fuel has become the primary source of energy. We used fossil fuels for over two hundred years. Today, fossil fuel such as oil, powers most of our modes of transportation. Then coal and natural gas powers our electricity. Over the two hundred years we used fossil fuels, it has developed a problem that only got bigger over time. A problem that we face not only as a nation but as the human race. The problem is climate change. Climate change is caused by natural or non-natural greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Modern human activities have increased the release of non-naturally occurring greenhouse gases because we have boost our demand of burning more fossil fuel. The following design cycle explains my point of view [Working families] on climate change. Criterion A Need for...
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...causes that can lead to deforestation for instance, agriculture expansion, logging operations, land abuse, and accidental wildfires. Even through there are a variety of factors that can lead to deforestation the end result is always the same, utter destruction. To begin with, the concept of deforesting is nothing new, the main differences between the present and the past lies in the causes. In the past deforesting was mainly used for agriculture, typically it was used in the slash and burn style. In the present deforesting for agriculture remains but in a much greater scale, according to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) about thirty-six football fields of trees are lost every minute due to deforestation. Agriculture plays a huge part in deforestation especially with the world population at an all-time high, in fact farmers are constantly expanding their land and cutting down trees to grow crops. Next, unlike agriculture logging expansions didn’t occur until most recently. Logging operations are the root cause of the world’s paper, if it weren’t for loggers there would be no paper/wooden products. Although their many differences between logging operations and agriculture, a big difference would be that most logging operations are required by law to replant seeds to regrow the forest after deforestation. Unfortunately the cause of replanting was due to the devastating effects of deforestation that included soil erosion and floods. Furthermore, another big cause of deforestation is land abuse...
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...Consequently, the trapping of the heat from the sun called the greenhouse effect hurts our atmosphere if overproduced. Earth's worldwide temperature is inevitably rising to an all time high every year. As a result, global warming becomes more and more ominous. This global warming has in fact been an issue ever since the industrial revolution era. Humans are mostly to blame...
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...believe global warming is due to human actions say that humans are releasing large numbers of heat trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. A few examples of greenhouse gases are “carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and ozone in the lower atmosphere.” (U.S. Global Change Research Information 2006, para. 1). These types of gases get trap heat in the atmosphere and cause the climate to rise. Since the Industrial Revolution, there has been more and more fossil fuels being burned, which is causing more pollutants. The pollutants are trapping heat in the atmosphere causing the average temperature of the Earth to rise. (Turk and Bensel, 2011) The most common heat trapping gas is carbon dioxide (CO2) which is caused by burning fossil fuel, coal, and oil. (Turk & Bensel, 2011) Carbon dioxide (CO2) is produced by so much equipment that humans use and do. Carbon dioxide is produced from burning fossil fuel, coal, oil, driving vehicles, heating systems, cooling systems, logging and even ranching. “The use of fossil fuel currently accounts for eighty to eighty-five percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) being added into the atmosphere.” (U.S. Global Change Research Information, 2006, para. 3). Just by looking at the number of vehicles out there, it is easy to see how much carbon...
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...Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth’s climate.Several current trends clearly demonstrate that global warming is directly impacting on rising sea levels, the melting of ice caps and significant worldwide climate changes Even though it is an ongoing debate, it is proved by the scientists that the planet is warming. Topic Sentence 1- causes Scientists have spent decades figuring out what is causing global warming. They've looked at the natural cycles and events that are known to influence climate. But the amount and pattern of warming that's been measured can't be explained by these factors alone.One of the first things scientists learned is that there are several greenhouse gases responsible for warming, and humans enfluence them in a variety of ways.Different greenhouse gases have very different heat-trapping abilities and certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping which doesnt allow heat to reflect back in the space causing temperature to rise. Most come from the consumption of fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity production. The gas responsible for the most warming is carbon dioxide (Facts of Carbondioxide as years pass and example from movie). Other contributors include methane released from landfills and agriculture (especially from the digestive systems of grazing animals), nitrous oxide from...
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