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and Vranes). This same organization reported that the ice on the Arctic Sea was the lowest ever in 2007 (Nodvin and Vranes). The d...
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...
the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues have developed computer mod...
more than doubled over the past decade" ("What is Global Warming?"). In addition, approximately "279 species of plants and animals...
attention in the media or grant money to continue their studies. If this were true, then these scientists would not even be known...
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...
reliance on carbon fuels is damaging: he notes that it makes us dependent on the Middle East, which is notoriously unstable; and t...
to issue on climate change, but looks at the entire concept of sustainability, of which climate change is one issue and the develo...
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...
50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...
fact, the highest of the last millennium. It is important to note, however, that no actual temperature data exist prior to the mi...
food; they provide resources (such as oil and natural gas); and they are a "highway" for commerce among countries (Exploration of ...
(1768-1830), of a "huge glass bell jar, made out of clouds and gases," which holds the "Earths heat close to the surface" (Lang). ...
will increase with intensity (Siegel, 2007). Fearnside (2007) expands on that notion and writes: "In 2005 Amazonia was hit by a v...
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...
global warming. The phenomena of global warming is one of the most misunderstood of natural phenomena yet it is related to the fi...
scientific facts regarding the changes which we are observing in our world. A recent front page article in the New York...
natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...
this is simply a humorous, tongue in cheek look at a real problem. In some way, humor lightens the seriousness of the dilemma. It ...
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...
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...
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...