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to issue on climate change, but looks at the entire concept of sustainability, of which climate change is one issue and the develo...

in opinion over the last few decades, with a general acceptance that it is the human influences which is causing damage to the env...

"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 ...

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...

reliance on carbon fuels is damaging: he notes that it makes us dependent on the Middle East, which is notoriously unstable; and t...

scientists. Citizens must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it, which cures make sense, and which might be wor...

place, but it is still being delayed and is still controversial. The impact it may have on the market is not known. In order to ...

will increase with intensity (Siegel, 2007). Fearnside (2007) expands on that notion and writes: "In 2005 Amazonia was hit by a v...

while people care about global warming, they do not care enough to "give up their cars or sacrifice a standard of living based on ...

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...

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). ...

food; they provide resources (such as oil and natural gas); and they are a "highway" for commerce among countries (Exploration of ...

attention in the media or grant money to continue their studies. If this were true, then these scientists would not even be known...

more than doubled over the past decade" ("What is Global Warming?"). In addition, approximately "279 species of plants and animals...

the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues have developed computer mod...

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 ...

since the administration began. But, now, or just recently, with Bushs address, global warming has arisen as a topic of concern pr...

course, the change that will occur as a result of increasing temperatures is not in dispute. If temperatures continue to rise, it ...

Global warming is an important issue of the times. The greenhouse effect is explained. This five page paper has four sources list...

In eight pages the Klinki Forestry Project of Costa Rica is examined in a consideration of its global warming studies along with i...

In three pages this paper considers among other topics alternative fuel utilization and international policies that are consistent...

marshes. 5. Coastal Sand Plains - This is a most unique region in that it is adjacent to the Laguna Madre: "the only coastal, h...

manufacturing pollutants to travel long distances, far away from the origination site. But what was not realized was that there i...

Mexico and will usually move out towards the open sea where they do not create any measurable harm (Borron, 2002). However, a phen...