document is to investigate the impact of climate change on the Information Technology (IT) industry in South Africa. Initial investigation will be into what is happening to the global and South African climate based on recent studies and academic papers. By then examining the impact of climate change on each sector‚ and by examining the percentage of IT spend per sector‚ the impact on IT during our lifetimes can be extrapolated. 2. Global Climate Change; South African Impact 2.1. The average global
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Climate change represents the gradual change in climate over a long period of time and it reflects many ways such as higher than usual temperatures and precipitations. This has environmental and health implication to humans all over the world as well as local challenges in different regions. Impacts of climate change includes flooding‚ drought‚ heavier and short duration rainfall‚ hotter summers and cooler winters‚ melting of glaciers and rising sea levels. Climate change is largely believed to be
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A. Background Very briefly describe yourself (age‚ birthplace‚ social class and status when you were growing up‚ current cultural orientation‚ etc.). I was born in San Francisco in 1985 to two young Israeli immigrants. I am the oldest of three and the only daughter. My family was Jewish but very secular‚ and our stance on religion and politics was liberal. I grew up in a middle to upper middle class suburb in the Bay Area where most of my friends were Catholic or Protestant. My current ideals have
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Urbanization and climate change Cities are often blamed for climate change. Sometimes‚ this is on the basis of estimates that seem to have no supporting evidence. This can be seen in the much-cited suggestion that cities account for 80 per cent of all GHG emissions worldwide. Actually‚ only around 35 per cent of the world’s GHG emissions are emitted within city boundaries‚ although city populations account for a higher proportion if emissions are allocated to consumers. In other instances‚ it seems
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In my speech I’ll be going over what climate change is‚ what the government is doing about it‚ some of the effects it has had on the US weather and finally going to briefly touch up on the phenomena of the whole situation. So what is climate change? The united states environmental protection agency defines it as “any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature‚ precipitation‚ or wind) lasting for an extended period.” Climate change is the preferred term for what’s going on
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Impacts of Climate Change Relating To Polar Ice Climate changes occur naturally over long periods of time on Earth‚ and it has been this way throughout Earth’s history. Currently‚ anthropological influences on earth have triggered a quickening rise in global temperatures and this in turn is causing a rapid change in earth’s climate. One of the major changes currently happening on earth is the melting of the polar ice caps. Major impacts relating to the melting of the polar ice caps include changes
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"Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species‚ and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating " Best Actor Oscar Winner Leonardo DiCaprio. The Global Warming is an increase of the average temperature of the terrestrial surface‚ considered as a symptom and a consequence of the climate change. The global warming of the Earth is already a fact that produced‚ and it will produce‚ serious consequences in the climate‚ the
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To what extent should the youth be worried about climate change Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our times. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change. Climate change impacts range from affecting agriculture‚ further endangering food security‚ to sea-level rise and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones increasing the intensity of natural disasters‚ species extinction‚ and spread of vector-borne diseases. This issue
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Identify and briefly explain three reasons why the New Christian Right might have failed to achieve its aims (9marks) The New Christian Right is a politically and morally conservative‚ protestant fundamentalist movement. The aims are extremely ambitious as they wish to make abortion‚ homosexuality and divorce illegal. They want to turn back to a time before liberalisation of American culture and society began. The New Christian Right may have failed to achieve its aims because the group lacked wide
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Climate change mitigation is the action to reduce the intensity of radiative forcing in order to reduce the effects of global warming (IPCC‚ 2006). Climate change mitigation can be done through several means such as developing alternative energy which includes renewable and nuclear energy‚ decreasing the carbon intensity of fossil fuel through carbon capture and sequestering‚ reforestation and also simply by conserving energy. Based on the cost-benefit analysis of each methods‚ I believe that the
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