Assembly passed the North Carolina Global Warming Act. This act established a Global Warming Commission that evaluates potential impacts on the state from rising temperatures, creates goals on reducing global warming pollutant, and prepares the economy to enhance economic markets associated with global warming” (“Cordato”). After passing this act, North Carolina became the first state in the Southeast to meaningfully step forward in the fight against global warming. North Carolina is one of the most
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Position Paper Global Warming and Common Sense The following are my thoughts as a concerned individual regarding global warming and the current efforts on CO2 reduction. I am not an expert in this field nor have I studied climatology or the chemistry of greenhouse gases on the environment. However, I have read many papers and reports on both sides of the global warming issue, and I have adopted the following conclusions along with many others who have studied the global warming problem more extensively
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The Lie About The Climate Change I find all the arguments that the climate change is caused by the mankind and every article, speech , movie and documentation about greenhouse gases, global warming and ways how to reduce our emissions very stupid. Many scientists and the media tell us, that our CO2 emissions cause the climate change while there is no proof for it. The earth’s atmosphere contains around 0,038% CO2 and the humanity caused 1, 2% of ‘all the’ CO2, most of it by forest clearance
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Greenpeace and Global Warming Greenpeace is an international organization that works for better environmental conservation and the preservation of endangered species, and they are striving to put an end to global warming by the human race. Global warming is a natural process; however because of the rate humans are pouring pollutants into the air, the warming is highly exhilarated. We, as a nation have the technology to supply our energy needs without the use of fossil fuels. According to Greenpeace
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The Issue of the Urban Heat Island For the first time in 2008 the human population was split evenly between urban and non-urban areas (Population Reference Bureau). Now, three years later, with greater than 50 percent of people live in urban areas, a large proportion of the human population is at risk of danger from urban climate stress. Urban areas drastically alter the natural landscape of the environments they replace and along with that, feed back loops that maintain local climate and
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Global Warming and Health Jessica Parks APA Format PSY/460 There are many current events plaguing environmental psychologist, possibly more now than ever before. This is one of the ideals that are causing environmental psychology to become such a demanding field of study. This essay will tackle one small corner of the problem, global warming and the affects it will have on the health of the human race. Global warming is a phenomenon that is causing the general temperature of the
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The quote by Rachel Carson is very motivating in having to take stringent measures to protect the earth from further degradation. Carson says,” we stand where two roads diverge. But unlike Robert Frost’s poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have been travelling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork in the road less travelled by offers our last and only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation
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Why the West Rules for Now Part Three Written by Ian Morris In this part, the author focuses more on the future and social development. It starts out by explaining that biology is not the answer to why the west rules for now, it is social development. The key to social development is that the west had the more favorable geography. This gave the west several generations ahead of the east, but the imbalance of progress was able to give the east more time to catch up with the west in terms
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America, and the world are in a crisis, and something needs to be done about our dependency on oil and coal. We need to explore alternative fuels and really take a look at what we are doing to the environment. The United States Congress should reduce emissions from oil and coal by funding research and helping to advance the technology involved with alternative fuels. America is a country that is literally fueled by oil and coal. We currently consume 20 million barrels a day, at a cost of 1
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Global Warming Mitigation Strategies and Solutions David Zavala University of Phoenix/Axia College Our atmosphere took billions of years to develop into what we know today but technological advances have given today’s society the power to change the atmosphere in less than a century. The revolution that began in the late eighteenth century made it possible for inventors to create many energy-saving machines. The only energy these machines save is human energy and time because these machines
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