believe that it is you that can help make a change in the senate. You would be speaking for everyone around the world who will be affected by global climate change. I do not pretend to be an environmentalist but I do know that global warming is real. The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years. In recent years there have been more and more devastating storms, many of magnitudes
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An Analytic Review of “Climate Change, Coming Home” By: Cory Walker Sociology 111 Ivy Tech Community College November 24, 2013 We have been hearing about climate change for several decades now. How climate change will effect populations is addressed thoroughly in this article. The four main effects we will experience are food supply shortages, wide spreading diseases, weather extremes, and rising sea levels. Food supply will be affected because droughts and heat waves will
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Most people and institutions in the world today see climate change as the greatest threat to the environment and world stability that has ever been faced. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN sponsored body of over 2,000 scientists, has come to the conclusion that worldwide temperatures are likely to rise on average by 2-5 degrees Celsius in the next 100 years. They admit that it is perfectly possible that the rise could be greater than this, but even if it is contained within these
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Politics of the Developing World POL 469 November 13, 2012 Paul De La Pena Politics of the Developing World Development of the world is unpredictable and uncontrollable at times. With so many countries shaping the world and contributing to its issues and ever changing issues it is hard to say what the future will bring. Dynamics that will form the future of the world and to take into consideration are economic disparities among countries in the North and South, social and political changes
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Technology has become so helpful to our lives in so many ways. Technology is convenient and efficient. It aids us to live life more conveniently by allowing us to do more in less effort. It, then, becomes rather difficult to undermine the importance in which technology plays within our lives. Many people have benefited from the invention of technology and would most often find it complicated to do without. Year after year, technologies become reinvented through new ideas and the betterment of equipment
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KAMILLE KLAIRE CARLOS Reflection: Inconvenient Truth AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH is a documentary, an instrument of public education and talks about the problem of global warming in the earth and inspires people to take action to save the earth. This documentary centers on Al Gore, and his campaign to make global warming a recognized problem worldwide. Gore combines objective scientific evidence, humor and personal insights to create a powerful exploration of what he clearly believes is the most
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BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS NAME:- NAME OF PROFESSOR:- DATE:- BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS The burning of fossil fuels is the major contributor to human caused climate change. Once taken out of the ground and burned , coal, oil and gas add to the amount of carbon cycling between the atmosphere and the oceans, soil, rock and vegetation. On human time scales, this transfer is irrevocable, once mined and burned, fossil carbon cannot be locked away safely
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more harmful radiation from the sun. Consequently, our polluted atmosphere is becoming a better insulator, thus, preventing heat from escaping back into space. That is why there is a global rise in temperature which scientists refer to as " global warming". As a result of this rise in temperature the world food supply and sea level will be affected, also there is the probability of increase in the tropical disease. Sources of Air Pollution The combustion of gasoline and other hydrocarbon fuels
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1. Describe what a greenhouse gas is and give examples of the common greenhouse gases. Why are greenhouse gases important to surface energy balance? A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect Examples of common greenhouse gases are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, Chlorofluorocarbons, and ozone. Greenhouse gases strongly absorb the earth’s
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to change our planet’s atmosphere. The main source of this additional CO2 is the burning of fossil fuels. There is a common consensus that global warming is an effect of increased carbon emission and only a few groups still hold on to the belief that there is no connection between emissions of greenhouse gases (Carbon) with the effect of global warming. The leading scientist have predicted Australia has 5 years to reduce its carbon emission to prevent dangerous climate change which may cause average
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