How will the planet change without Artic sea ice? It’s a question that has been asked around and scientist have come up with an answer. Scientist are saying that by midcentury, the Arctic coastline and most of the Arctic Ocean will be devoid of sea ice. Which means that we will have an additional 60 days to some regions having 100 days more open water. These events will have affects on the Arctic environment, it could mainly change the aspects of the polar ecosystem and affect the lives of those
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Global Warming - Marine and Antartic Science Planet Earth or Planet Ocean? 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water. There’s been life in the oceans for about 3.45 billion years longer than there has been on the land. The oceans determine, to a vast degree the patterns of global and regional climate. The Oceans are the driving force of our weather and climate. Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. Climate change is affecting the temperature of the oceans. The composition of
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Why we should be concern about the ocean pollution? Because everything in the world we use comes from the ocean in some way. The ocean provides us with everything we need like; the air we breathe, water we drink, food we eat, new medicines, climate, and products we use daily. Our ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and maintain our climate change impacts. The ocean holds about 97 percent of the worlds water supply. Is it the largest ecosystem on earth and it provides most of the animal
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including irrigation decrease. First, Alberta is impacted by climate change due to increasing temperatures. Increasing temperatures can be caused by the greenhouse effect, which traps the sun’s heat in the lower parts of the atmosphere, causing global temperatures to rise. The main emissions,
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Can we save the earth? While reading The Creation: An Appeal to Save life on Earth by E.O Wilson a lot of ideas popped up in my head. I have to admit some were crazy ideas but reading this book sparked them all. If the course didn’t require me to read at least two books from professors Isenhour list I probably wouldn’t have read this book. I’m glad I did because this is an issue that I have heard a lot about but never gave it importance. All my ideas which I will explain later on all lead to a question
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In the fall of 2007 the numbers of pheasants and pheasant hunters combined increased by over 34%. Then in the winter of 2007 pheasant numbers dropped 80% when over 70 inches of snow fell in eastern South Dakota. How do humans and natural driving forces affect pheasants and pheasant hunting in South Dakota? Today we can predict the booms and the busts of pheasants by the weather conditions. When people destroy winter habitat we know there is going to be some starvation and a possible smaller bust
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controversy over the potential impact of this trend. One side of the audiences conjecture that we need to explore the space; on the contrary, many people assert that rather spending those tax money on space travel, we need to solve our current issues like global warming, poverty, and many more. In this essay, I am going to elaborate some points that will lead you to the logical reasoning. At the outset, there are innumerable reasons to agree with the fact that space travel has gained immense popularity
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The advance and retreat of glaciers is dependent between inputs, storage and outputs. Inputs include the accumulation of snow, avalanches, debris, heat and meltwater. Glaciers are mostly ice however, they may carry debris, moraine, and meltwater. Further, the outputs are losses are because of ablation, the melting of snow and ice and sublimation of ice to vapour and sediment. The size of a glacier is dependent on its regime (balance between rate and amount of supply of ice and the amount and rate
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Throughout history, certain pieces of land have been known to have complicated relationships with their people. During the expedition of Lewis and Clark, land of all sorts was encountered throughout the long journey. The land they faced was helpful at times, but was also very harsh at other times. However, issues with land are not only a thing of the past. A city that has struggled with its land and how to continue living on it is New Orleans. New Orleans, a city best known for its vibrant culture
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California is experiencing a major drought that has continued on from climate change. Like Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the State Water Resources Control Board said, (“ In the cities of a changed California, brown is the new green”). People are having to change their lifestyles because of this, such as giving some of their lawn away to be able to sustain droughts. Basically, trading their regular grass for artifical turf. It’s a sad sight, when people of the areas see people and companies growing
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