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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...
(1768-1830), of a "huge glass bell jar, made out of clouds and gases," which holds the "Earths heat close to the surface" (Lang). ...
attention in the media or grant money to continue their studies. If this were true, then these scientists would not even be known...
manufacturing pollutants to travel long distances, far away from the origination site. But what was not realized was that there i...
any news interest in the first place: The scientific conviction that global warming is happening and is being caused by man incre...
natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...
since the administration began. But, now, or just recently, with Bushs address, global warming has arisen as a topic of concern pr...
this is simply a humorous, tongue in cheek look at a real problem. In some way, humor lightens the seriousness of the dilemma. It ...
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...
the fact that a "tax credit reduces tax dollar-for-dollar," while a deduction "only removes a percentage of the tax that is owed" ...
course, the change that will occur as a result of increasing temperatures is not in dispute. If temperatures continue to rise, it ...
automobile since its invention. However, not only is gasoline a non-renewable resource, but it now appears that it has a potential...
1827 (Houghton, 1997). What is the greenhouse effect exactly? Greenhouse gases are actually gases which are trapped in the atmosph...
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...
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...
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...
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...
will be five days from now. Their "job" as protectors of the sea is being severely threatened as they decline in mass with every ...
of greenhouse gasses, in other words, CO2 and other gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere and increase the temperature on ea...
addressing it in a knee-jerk reaction wont be of benefit to anyone. Trying to make a decision in this scenario without considering...
are sounding the alarm. Discussion In one sentence, Meyer shows why the case for human activity as a cause of global warming can ...
reliance on carbon fuels is damaging: he notes that it makes us dependent on the Middle East, which is notoriously unstable; and t...
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...