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(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...
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...
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...
attention in the media or grant money to continue their studies. If this were true, then these scientists would not even be known...
the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues have developed computer mod...
1827 (Houghton, 1997). What is the greenhouse effect exactly? Greenhouse gases are actually gases which are trapped in the atmosph...
automobile since its invention. However, not only is gasoline a non-renewable resource, but it now appears that it has a potential...
warming is valid. Indeed, articles appear almost daily in major publications around the world. The electronic media devotes its ...
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...
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 ...
the fact that a "tax credit reduces tax dollar-for-dollar," while a deduction "only removes a percentage of the tax that is owed" ...
more than doubled over the past decade" ("What is Global Warming?"). In addition, approximately "279 species of plants and animals...
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...
and carries a negative connotation. It is the ozone layer of the outer atmosphere that constitutes the beneficial ozone, and it i...
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...
scientists. Citizens must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it, which cures make sense, and which might be wor...
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...
reliance on carbon fuels is damaging: he notes that it makes us dependent on the Middle East, which is notoriously unstable; and t...
extremes of temperature and in which wind is instrumental in forming the landscape, i.e., by shaping dunes and snow drifts. Furthe...
its airports and service facilities. This land consumption both directly and indirectly impacts the environment. Although the in...