BirdLife. Red Data Book - Threatened Birds of Asia. Accessed July 11th, 2007. • World Bank. Philippines Environment. Accessed July 11th, 2007. • WWF. 2004. The Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion - Cradle of Life. Accessed July 11th, 2007. WORLD: Climate change Climate change today is less of a natural process. It is rapidly occurring due to the ill effects of human actions responsible for disturbing and harmful out comings such as
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worldwide temperature records that have been maintained by humans since the 1880s. It is often used synonymously with the term climate change, but the two terms have distinct meanings. Global warming is the combined result of anthropogenic (human-caused) emissions of greenhouse gases and changes in solar irradiance, while climate change refers to any change in the state of the climate that can be identified by changes in the average and/or the variability of its properties (e.g., temperature, precipitation), and that persists
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American generates 19 tons of carbon dioxide per year with much of that amount coming from airline flights (Rosenthal). These carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming. Also with this amount of carbon emissions, it also causes extreme weather changes in the environment as well as potentially harmful or hazardous health effects for people (Discovery). As for the effect this will have on non-human animals, these large amounts of carbon emissions contribute greatly to the lose of many ecosystems
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private residences 6. ecosystem - noun a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment 7. biome - noun a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate 8. autotroph - noun plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances 9. producer - noun something that produces; someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program
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International tourist arrivals are forecast to reach 1.8 billion by 2030 according to the newly released UNWTO long-term forecast, Tourism Towards 2030. International tourism will continue to grow in the period 2010-2030, but at a more moderate pace than the past decades, with the number of international tourist arrivals worldwide increasing by an average 3.3% a year. A large proportion of the arrivals of the next two decades will originate from the countries of Asia and the Pacific, growing at
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Ouari SEKKOUM 05/03/2012 GLOBAL WARMING: A THREAT TO THE PLANET. Human activity is subjected to weather major upheavals. The evaluation of all information related to climate change is effected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to their latest report of 2007, global warming is unequivocal because it appears with evidence in the observation of the increase in global average temperatures of the atmosphere and ocean
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cities, dams, and carry out various other activities in order to make life more comfortable. Consequently, human beings adapt, depend on, and modify the environment in order to make life more comfortable. This has resulted in consequences such as climate change that have only recently been appreciated by the global community. It is an irrefutable fact that human beings cannot survive without the environment. Therefore, the topic of how humans are interacting with the environment is becoming an increasingly
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doing more damage now than we did 100 years ago, but nonetheless, damage has been done. The proof is the average global temperature increasing expeditiously. "Data gathered from surface weather stations, ships, buoys, balloons, satellites, ice cores, and other paleoclimatological sources indicate that the climate of Earth is becoming warmer." (Hess, 2011, p.91) "Over the twentieth century, average global temperatures increased by more than 0.7°C (1.3°F)." (Hess) This is a remarkable statement, which
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Larissa H. Guerrero John Aldwin U. Co Candace Beatrice P. Tan Rowell S. Hernandez Experiment # 1 THE ECOSYSTEM AND ITS CLIMATIC FACTORS Abstract Climatic factors are a specific type of abiotic components that determine the long-term weather pattern in a particular area. In this experiment, the researchers investigated key climatic factors, namely: temperature, light intensity, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, atmospheric pressure, precipitation and rate of evaporation.
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PESTLE is an Environmental Framework used to understand the impact of the external factors on the organization and is also used as strategic analytical technique. PESTLE Analysis is used to examine the current and future state of the industry an organization belongs to. This helps in the strategic planning and gaining the competitive edge over the other firms in that industry. This analysis can not only be used for an organization as a whole but various departments can also be inspected under this
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