with high winds and low visibility. Reaction: In the film The Day After Tomorrow‚ the movie dealt with global warming and how it might affect our climate. In the start of the movie some of the actors are found drilling for ice core samples in Antarctica. The core samples are used for research in the distant pass’s climate. Well they are drilling a piece of the ice shelf breaks off. It was the size of Texas. The movie then shifts to a Global Warming conference in India. The scientist explains that
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Global Warming. Shante’ Ebron 08/21/2013 Bill Gangloff SCI/275 The current cycle of global warming is changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon. What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope with the changes we ’ve already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out‚ the face of the Earth as we know it coasts‚ forests‚ farms‚ and snowcapped mountains hangs in the balance. Mitigation means lessening the
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Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. Global average air temperature near the Earth’s surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.3 ± 0.32 °F) during the past century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes‚ "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas
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Many Americans assume that global warming also known as climate change is nothing to be concerned with while the earth’s average temperature begins to rise. This is something that has always been very important to me from an environmental standpoint since we do not have a planet B. If we all play our part in making the world a more environmentally friendly place we may be able to delay the inevitable‚ In the meantime climate change is the biggest threat to humanity in the 21st century.
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The shipwreck at the bottom of the world‚ Miracle in the andes and just normal school problems. Sir Ernest Shackleton and 27 of his crew members had sailed in hopes to become the world’s first crew to ever explore and traverse the land of Antarctica. Through the process of choosing each men for specific roles‚ Shackleton had brought various items aboard his ship “Endurance” from items like a bike‚ Board games‚ and dogs used to haul sleds which ironically‚ no one on the vessel knew how to tame
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Theory of Continental Drift The seven continents used to be one giant continent named Pangea. They spread apart and became what the continents are today. The shapes of the continents line up‚ the fossils line up with how the continents‚ the rock formations on both sides of the Atlantic line up with the fossils and coastlines‚ and climatic evidence proves the Theory of Continental Drift. The first piece of evidence for Continental Drift is the shapes of the continents. All of the continents fit
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Throughout history and even today‚ men and women are attracted to the activity of exploring Antarctica‚ despite this continent having one of the harshest environments in the world. Severe winds and temperatures of down to -41 degrees Celsius have been reported on recent expeditions (Shackleton Solo‚ 2015). In 2015‚ Henry Worsley commenced a Trans-Antarctic expedition to commemorate the life of Sir Earnest Shackleton and aimed to follow in Shackleton’s planned expedition route which the Endurance
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LAKE A lake is a body of relatively still water of considerable size‚ localized in a basin‚ that is surrounded by land apart from a river‚ stream‚ or other form of moving water that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons‚ and are larger and deeper thanponds.[1][2] Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams‚ which are usually flowing. However most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams.Natural lakes are generally
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by landmasses‚ and others take detours around islands. Only the Antarctic Circumpolar current flows all the way around the Earth uninterrupted. For at least 25 million years‚ the Antarctic Circumpolar current has helped insulate the waters around Antarctica from other oceans. The current helps keep warmer waters away from the continent. Ocean currents help transport heat and cold‚ playing a key role in the Earth’s climate. There is therefore a need for data‚ so that the scientist may keep track of
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that was found‚ is today being held in the British Museum of Natural History. It was reportedly found by an anonymous Maori in New Zealand in 1859 and was named Palaeeudyptes Antarcticus despite the fact that the species was located far away from Antarctica. Since that discovery many more fossils were found and were dated back to the Miocene era and three others from the Pliocene era. Several fossils were dated to the Late Pliocene era and others from the Recent era. The earliest avian fossil found
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