Essays 121 - 150
are sounding the alarm. Discussion In one sentence, Meyer shows why the case for human activity as a cause of global warming can ...
in carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbon emissions that have accumulated in the atmosphere over time and ...
most entertaining books ever written, including Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and The Lost World among others. His 2004 "tec...
wit; he has also been a concerned environmentalist since before it was "cool." This paper discusses one of the issues raised in hi...
champion, aided by the very visible image of Richard Branson. If the firm is really one that can be seen as a peoples champion wit...
amounts of carbon dioxide, with industrialization being the primary cause. Burning fossil fuels and industrial-dictated changes i...
A major influence is being increased waste and pollution as a result of burning fossil fuels, such as coal and oil (GERIO, 1997). ...
their impact is felt by 70% of the population were effected to a significant level (Saporito, 2001). The emissions made ar...
A scientific literature review about climate change and global warming. There are 10 sources listed in the bibliography of this 8-...
similar to the UK, and 77% of the respondents stated that they agreed that there was a need to reduce waste, but this was an answe...
sharing information, but its not always easy to determine how credible this information is. This paper describes ten ways of testi...
influences. The urban heat island effect is an effect that will skew results, it is known that cities are often hotter that the...
of greenhouse gasses, in other words, CO2 and other gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere and increase the temperature on ea...
addressing it in a knee-jerk reaction wont be of benefit to anyone. Trying to make a decision in this scenario without considering...
on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...
the mean temperature of the planet has been rising, and "human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean glob...
and Vranes). This same organization reported that the ice on the Arctic Sea was the lowest ever in 2007 (Nodvin and Vranes). The d...
scientists. Citizens must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it, which cures make sense, and which might be wor...
reliance on carbon fuels is damaging: he notes that it makes us dependent on the Middle East, which is notoriously unstable; and t...
trouble, but by which time it will be too late to do anything about it. Id like to tell you some of my concerns, because you are t...
to issue on climate change, but looks at the entire concept of sustainability, of which climate change is one issue and the develo...
work appears in the New Yorker; this book started out as a series of pieces she did for the magazine (Hayes, 2006). What gives Kol...
in opinion over the last few decades, with a general acceptance that it is the human influences which is causing damage to the env...
its airports and service facilities. This land consumption both directly and indirectly impacts the environment. Although the in...
"same freedom for imagination and desk-top investigation" that is utilized by empirical ecologists in the field (Wu, 1994). Both o...
atmosphere have been measured since the late 1950s (Schneider). These measurements have revealed a steady increase in the amount o...
should an organization like the United Nations address the issue on a worldwide basis to assure that all nations adhere to a stand...
the sea of nutrients that animals need for survival. On land, a global warming trend could impact agriculture; providing too much ...
will be five days from now. Their "job" as protectors of the sea is being severely threatened as they decline in mass with every ...