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This research report takes a look at a variety of literature on the subject. Global warming and what it signifies in respect to cl...

In ten pages global warming is examined in a discussion of concepts, theories, and ways in which it might be either slowed or halt...

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...

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...

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...

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

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). ...

explains why the Arctic ice cap has melted (Gardiner). Ice-albedo Feedback refers to the positive feedback loop that explains wh...

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

everything else" (64). Global warming affects many natural events. There has been much discussion about storms. Scientists, as w...

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 ...

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...

they have "no intention of doing anything of the sort" (Adler, 2007, p. 45). Another important milestone that Adler describes is...

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

offenders later in his article, Gelbspan does so immediately by stating that "Americans...are in denial" concerning the issue of c...

in the 1990s were the "hottest years on record" (Anonymous 2005, p. 4). These scientific facts advise us first, that there are wa...

warming is valid. Indeed, articles appear almost daily in major publications around the world. The electronic media devotes its ...

ozone layer is that portion of the Earths atmosphere that contains high concentration of ozone (Busman and Belen). This exists in ...

2100, sea levels may rise by 3 feet (Schulte 34). Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology blame warmer water for the fa...

Center, 2006). In terms of finding the percentage of industries or activities that contribute to global warming one author...

goals and limitations. The greenhouse effect, that natural regulator of the earths climate, has been altered by the additio...

automobile since its invention. However, not only is gasoline a non-renewable resource, but it now appears that it has a potential...