What is Global Warming? Global Warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter‚ disasters like hurricanes‚ droughts and floods are getting more frequent. Over the last 100 years‚ the average temperature of the air near the Earth´s surface has risen a little less than 1° Celsius (0.74 ± 0.18°C‚ or 1.3 ± 0.32° Fahrenheit). Does not seem all that much? It is responsible for the conspicuous increase in storms‚ floods and raging forest fires we
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Global Warming Caused by Man Global warming is a fact. We know this because over the past ten to fourteen years the earth has been heating up. We have produced record breaking temperatures not only in the United States‚ but around the world as mentioned in Al Gore’s Nobel Prize winning documentary‚ An Inconvenient Truth. The argument still remains‚ though‚ what is the cause of global warming? Posted this week in the Wall Street Journal was an article written by Jeffrey Ball that stated two years
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The Human Factor of Global Warming The Human Factor of Global Warming Global warming has been a growing concern for many over the last several decades. The effects of global warming are evident and broad‚ with historical research dating the first global warming crisis back 56 million years ago‚ better known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum‚ or PETM (Jardine‚ 2011). Research from the composition of sediments of fossils shells of marine organisms conclude that carbon dioxide trapped within
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the years? “Global warming” refers to the global-average temperature increase that has been observed over the last one hundred years or more. But to many people‚ the term carries that mankind is responsible for that warming. Global warming is a man made problem that has been progressing over the years and is getting worse and worse. Believe it or not‚ very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming…it has simply been assumed that global warming is man made
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Annotated Bibliography on Global Warming: Fact or Fiction Fumento‚ Michael. “The Cooling Off on Global Warming.” The Washington Times 8 July 1999: 15. LexisNexis Academic . Academic Universe. W. I. Dykes Lib.‚ University of Houston-Downtown. 20 Feb. 2010 http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.uhd.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/ Fumento explains that a nonprofit group called Public Agenda and American Geophysical Union (AGU) has reported on public frustration about global warming and other pollutants. This
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Brandy Ricker WR122 Global Warming…Fact or Fiction? One of the largest current debates in the world is whether or not global warming is being caused by unnatural interference to the environment or is it a part of the Earth’s natural cycle of climate patterns. It is glaringly obvious that the world as a whole should agree on some drastic changes to improve our environmental situation immediately. ProCon.org states that the US National Academies of Science‚ the National Aeronautics and Space
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WAYS TO REDUCE THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING Global Warming refers to the gradual increase in the Earth’s temperature as a result of the growing concentration of human induced green house gases which are carbon dioxide‚ chlorofluorocarbons and hydro fluorocarbon in our atmosphere. Global warming can be caused by the use of fossil fuels‚ and industrial or agricultural processes. Man-made emissions are adding to the amount of carbon dioxide already being naturally released. These
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Simple Solutions to Global Warming Linda Hunt ITT Technical Institute Simple Solutions to Global Warming The most prominent concern that affects the environmental health of the world today is global warming. Although government agencies are making significant strides in providing solutions to global warming‚ the ultimate solution may lay in the hands of the individual citizens. Simple things‚ such as the way electricity is used in homes‚ the production of waste‚ and the choice of transportation
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If you don’t know what Global warming is it is the increase in the earth’s average temperature due to the release of several greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by humans. Global warming is affecting many different parts of the world and in turn causes a cause and effect. Glaciers are melting which is causing the sea level to rise. When the sea level rises it causes damage to people living in low lying areas‚ and damages to plants by covering them which causes them to die. Which in turn causes animals
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Global Warming: Myth or Fact? The Global Warming theory has become increasingly popular over the past few years. Citizens of the world are being encouraged to be more environmentally conscious by others including politicians‚ celebrities‚ and world organizations. The problem with the theory lies in the fact that it has become more and more controversial as it gains publicity and attention. The basic concept behind this theory is that the earth was made with a balance of “greenhouse gasses”
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