Semester 1 UU100 Assignment 2 Name: Student ID: Year: 2013 Global warming This essay is based on Global warming and the cause and effect of it. “Global warming I define as an increase in the earth ’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. Increase in the global average surface temperature resulting from enhancement of the greenhouse effect‚ primarily by air pollution” (Merriam-Webster
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Global warming by Class: Teacher: Table of contents Outline……………………………………………………………………………………pg3 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………pg4 What is Global Warming and how is it formed.........................pg5 Causes and Effects of global warming……………………………………..pg6 Green houses gases and its sources…………………………………………pg7
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GLOBAL WARMING AND THE EFFECTS ON EARTH One of the hottest topics being discussed now a days is the effects of global warming on the environment and the efforts being made in order to combat the potential effects. Simply put‚ global warming refers to the environmental effects caused by the constant emission of carbon dioxide from carbon based fuels. These effects are supposedly widespread; the temperature of the earth will rise‚ the land becomes less conducive to‚ vegetation‚ and various
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Meaning of Global Warning A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide‚ CFCs‚ and other pollutants. Climate change is any substantial change in Earth’s climate that lasts for an extended period of time. Global warming refers to climate change that causes an increase in the average temperature of the lower atmosphere. Global warming can have many different causes‚ but it is most
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Global Warming Essay July 11‚ 2011 Sci 256 Many people today believe that global warming is still nothing but a theory discussed by some weird scientists because they just want to scare us. But in reality there are many climate issues happening and people are very confused on what is really happening. Some theories of global warming are the “Green house effect”‚ changing sun‚ ash from volcano and natural variations in climate such as El Niño. Most scientists agree that global warming is caused
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don’t hold up‚ then the hypothesis requires modification.” (Gerhard12) Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) does not meet these criteria. The AGW hypothesis states that temperature increases are the result of CO2 increases produced from burning fossil fuels. (Hansen) James Hansen of NASA Goddard Space Institute of space studies first presented this hypothesis to congress in 1988. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1989. It was set up by the United Nations
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Global Warming The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency definition of global warming: “Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface and in the troposphere‚ which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes‚ both natural and human induced. In common usage‚ “global warming” often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human
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GLOBAL WARMING One of the most strongly debated topics on our earth is the issue of climate change. Global warming and climate change is refer to an increase in average global temperatures. Natural events and human activities are believed to be contributing to an increase in average global temperatures. This is caused primarily by increases in “greenhouse” gases such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2) I. Effect There are two effects of global warming which is the environmental and social changes
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Approximately every 100‚000 years Earth’s climate warms up temporarily. The Earth is in a warming period since the Ice Age. The warming periods called glacial periods cause the Earth to retrogress back to a cold ice age climate after a couple of years. This leads to the growing debate of today‚ Is global warming caused by humans? Or caused naturally? This is a controversial issue and debate today‚ however‚ global warming is not man-made‚ in fact‚ it is a normal and natural cycle for the Earth and
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Global Warming Essay Global warming is one of the greatest challenges for the environment. It is the increase in the temperature of the Earth. There are several things happening now that demonstrate global warming as directly impacting the rising of sea levels‚ the melting of ice caps and significant worldwide climate changes. Unfortunately‚ the imbalance which has been created between life and earth is already showing the signs of disaster in forms of floods‚ cyclones‚ landslides‚ tsunamis and
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