Global Warming Global Warming Jonathan Gess Itt Technical Institute Global Warming In the 1990’s a great problem was brought to our attention as a nation, and as a world. Al Gore had started a movement to change the world. He was looked upon as a fanatic, in some eyes, maybe a lunatic. In my mind for a while he was both. After some research and some insight, the realization is he was just trying to make the world aware that we are ruining the earth that we inhabit. The question
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i have seen lands that have been turned from jungle into desserts by people in a matter of a couple of years ,because of the slash and burn method used by settlers and expanding agriculture,and i have seen rivers dry up because of deforrestation in many places in Africa and Mexico , i live now by the side of a river in Mexico where,in 30 years 5 species of fish have become exstinct . and part of the year the river is dry this is for longer every year because of over use of agriculture and deforrestation
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Global Warming : cause and Mitigation SCI 110 December 4, 2013 Global Warming: cause and Mitigation Comparing contrast natural versus man-made climate changes. My sciences agree that there are natural causes to climate change so says the sun greenhouse effect and reflectivity. Many would also debate the man-made atmosphere changes can increase these significantly to be determined as a man-made change the global climate. Whenever sciences look at the history of the changes and whether they
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There is now little doubt that global warming and climate change are the result of human activity. This has happened because of a failure in policy by governments and a lack of concern for wasted energy by individuals. It is almost universally accepted that climate change is the of a number of environmental failings. Perhaps the most important of these is how fuels such as gas and coal are still the main source of power. This is a problem because their use means that a large amount of CO2
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the Earth’s cycle. In the 1970’s many environmentalists were concerned about “global cooling” because of manmade atmospheric pollution blocking out the sun, which would freeze the earth, kill all life forms, and make Earth completely uninhabitable. Since about 1940, the Earth did in fact appear to be cooling but then in the 1980’s and the 1990’s temperatures began to increase which created the theory of “global warming” (Geo Craft). According to The Cooling World written by Peter Gwynne in 1975,
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Global Warming Bob Sanders University of Phoenix Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving Global Warming o Provide a brief introduction and background on the issue. The world uses these things call fossil fuels, which make energy for everything to run. Well the problems with them are they produce mass amounts of toxins which pollute the air. This causes the sun’s rays to be bounced back into the o zone layer quickly and that causes the o zone to deteriorate. Factories around
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Global Warming If the global climate were to warm significantly as a result of the greenhouse effect or other climatic change, the Arctic ice cap would start to melt. This ice cap contains the equivalent of some 680,000 cubic miles of water. More than 200 million people live on land that is less than 3 feet above sea level. In the United States several large cities have low average elevations. Three examples are Boston (14 feet), New Orleans (4 feet), and San Diego (13 feet). In this exercise you
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the radiation of the sun was trapped in the carbon dioxide the temperature of the earth would increase by 1-2 degrees. In 1988 James Hanson, a respected scientist, told the U.S. Congress "the greenhouse effect is occurring now and it's changing global climate."(1989 Koral). After the 1900's people started making factories and started using fossil fuels like coal, oil, and aluminum. It was the industrial revolution and overpopulation of humans that was the cause of the environmental problems
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Global Warming: A Global Threat Over the period within which human beings have existed, man has been in the forefront of all technological marvels to date. Man has created, destroyed and revived many natural cycles and dynamics that balance the delicate nature of this world. Although global warming is not a recent phenomenon, very few people had knowledge of its existence a decade ago. However, in the last few years, the media started to shed light into the dangers of global warming, and the idea
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polluters" such as India and China to cut emissions.” It was agreed upon in 1997 and the environment has changed since then and the standards need to be raised to catch up. The leaders of the world need to take initiative because the environment is a global issue. The Kyoto Treaty was a good start but much more needs to be done worldwide. President Bush is right that it needs to be updated but I think he should sign just to show unity on the issue. Solving the environment crisis can’t be solved by one
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