A CLOSER LOOK AT CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICISM By Charles W. Schmidt Publication by Environmental Health Perspectives December 2010 Article Review by James M. Phelps Davenport University Abstract To summarize the article, I believe that the author of the article Charles W. Schmidt is indicating that much of the skepticism on global warming and climate change has come from inaccurate data being released by both sides of the argument, that private and corporate funding has persuaded scientist
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Clean Coal Daniel Robinson DeVry University Understanding what clean coal means can be confusing and the potential impact on the environment can be confusing. Hearing the words clean coal makes most of us think we have finally found a way to actually make coal a clean sustainable resource to generate our electricity. After reading “The Environmental Injustice of ‘‘Clean Coal’’: Expanding the National Conversation on Carbon Capture and Storage Technology to Include an Analysis of Potential Environmental
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Slide 1 Scientists rarely agree on anything in the scientific community, and global warming is no exception. In the community of scientists, skeptics, such as Richard S. Lindzen, have been using empirical research and data to debate the effects of human contributions on climate change. Although media reports, political motives, and environmental groups are fueling the fire of the global warming catastrophe, Lindzen believes there is no justifiable scientific evidence that suggests anthropogenic
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Introduction International politics has been shifted enormously into a new episode in the mid 20th century in the history of International Relation. Before 1950s world politics was confined within frequent wars including two world wars. But after 1950s world politics, including cold war was filled up by many variants to ensure each states security as arms race, nuclearization as well as security against global climate change. Like all other things, global climate change also got a strong basis of
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Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our times. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change. Climate change impacts will range from affecting agriculture - further endangering food security - to sea-level rise and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones, increasing intensity of natural disasters, species extinction, and the spread of vector-borne diseases. [1] This issue is of immense importance for every global
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Climate Change vs. Economy Climate change has been a major topic of conversation and controversy around the world for many years before it was finally recognized as a global issue that must be dealt with immediately. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) climate change occurs due to the large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that throw off the balance of Earth’s natural carbon cycle. The human activity of combusting fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) for electricity
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Human On the Death Sentence: We Pay What We Done… or Not Introduction For most Americans and around the world, the automobile is an essential part of daily life especially for “every second is money” and hate waiting type of people. Cars have shaped our culture, landscape. Moreover, the industries that build and serve cars form shaped our economy. The automobile is not without its faults, but they often are concealed by the styling, performance and other features that make today’s vehicles
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For more than two hundred years, even before the industrial revolution began the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has increased due to the burning of fossil fuels and land use change (-NOAA). Mainly by car emissions and the burning of forest, also known as deforestation. Ocean Acidification is the reduction of pH in the ocean over a period of time. The reduction of pH in the ocean is mainly the after effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. pH is measured just like
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Factors Greenhouse Gases The increase in greenhouse gases caused by human activity is often cited as one of the major causes of global warming. These greenhouse gases reabsorb heat reflected from the Earth's surface, thus trapping the heat in our atmosphere. This natural process is essential for life on Earth because it plays an important role in regulating the Earth's temperature. However, over the last several hundred years, humans have been artificially increasing the concentration of these
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90 years, when the average global temperature increased by 0.7C, extreme hurricanes similar to Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, were nearly twice as likely in warmer years as colder years. (Steve Connor, 2012). While other sources like IPCC AR4 report (2007), says regarding global tropical storms: "There is no clear trend in the annual numbers [i.e. frequency] of tropical cyclones". This conflict and diametrically opposed theories about the increase of hurricanes frequency was a motive
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