Essays 61 - 90
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...
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...
should an organization like the United Nations address the issue on a worldwide basis to assure that all nations adhere to a stand...
to issue on climate change, but looks at the entire concept of sustainability, of which climate change is one issue and the develo...
will be five days from now. Their "job" as protectors of the sea is being severely threatened as they decline in mass with every ...
to benefit from such a boon - as is the case with any sort of social improvement - the vast majority was able to bask in the up-an...
extremes of temperature and in which wind is instrumental in forming the landscape, i.e., by shaping dunes and snow drifts. Furthe...
scientists. Citizens must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it, which cures make sense, and which might be wor...
atmosphere have been measured since the late 1950s (Schneider). These measurements have revealed a steady increase in the amount o...
the sea of nutrients that animals need for survival. On land, a global warming trend could impact agriculture; providing too much ...
global warming. The phenomena of global warming is one of the most misunderstood of natural phenomena yet it is related to the fi...
50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...
(1768-1830), of a "huge glass bell jar, made out of clouds and gases," which holds the "Earths heat close to the surface" (Lang). ...
naturally and are not sufficient in size to significantly alter the current climate problems (Dawicki). Iron was added at 2 locati...
what experts believe about the relationship between war and changes in the climate caused by global warming. The results of this l...
while people care about global warming, they do not care enough to "give up their cars or sacrifice a standard of living based on ...
scientific facts regarding the changes which we are observing in our world. A recent front page article in the New York...
of greenhouse gasses, in other words, CO2 and other gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere and increase the temperature on ea...
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...
the increasing severity and frequency of floods, hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, drought, and heavy rains is directly related to g...
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...
the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues have developed computer mod...
attention in the media or grant money to continue their studies. If this were true, then these scientists would not even be known...
food; they provide resources (such as oil and natural gas); and they are a "highway" for commerce among countries (Exploration of ...
fact, the highest of the last millennium. It is important to note, however, that no actual temperature data exist prior to the mi...
In five pages this paper discusses how developed and developing countries are dealing with the growing problem of global warming. ...