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    Global Warming Global warming means a gradual increase in the Earth’s average lower atmosphere due to emissions and build up of greenhouse gases . Global warming is when the earth heats up and the temperature rises. It happens when greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide‚ water vapor‚ nitrous oxide‚ and methane trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere‚ which increases the temperature. Most greenhouse gases are released by the burning of fossil fuels for heating‚ cooking‚ electrical

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    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 Global warming is and has always been one of the most controversial topics to speak about. Global warming is 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. In the 21st century‚ global warming has become the most important environmental issue that require every Earth ’s citizen attention. Still‚ there are a lot of people do not believe this

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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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    Global warming means a gradual increase in the Earth’s average lower atmosphere due to emissions and build up of greenhouse gases . Global warming is when the earth heats up and the temperature rises. It happens when greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide‚ water vapor‚ nitrous oxide‚ and methane trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere‚ which increases the temperature. Greenhouse gases are released mostly by the burning of fossil fuels for transportation‚ heating‚ electrical

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    Throughout the world the issue of global warming has become an increasingly important issue. Global warming has been an issue that has been heatedly debated for many years. Scientists all over the world have been debating weather global warming actually exists. If it exists some scientists believe it is natural. While others believe it is caused by humans. Global warming is defined as an average increase in temperature in the atmosphere near the earths surface and in the troposphere. Which can

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    Annie Lee POLS 1150 10 Global brief paper - redo 03/18/2013 Many people deny the fact that global warming is real; that a lot of it is caused by man. Man made global warming has become worse and worse throughout the years‚ and more research has proven that. It isn’t exactly 100% man-made global warming‚ but with a mix of manmade and natural global warming. Although it might seem like it is not such a big problem‚ manmade global warming has played more than 90% of the global warming’s problems currently

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    sadly‚ they have become more serious throughout the years. Apparently‚ other than natural disaster it is evident that the major cause of pollution is the irresponsible act of human being. Global warming has become a hot topic nowadays and we must take up the responsibility to resolve this problem. Global warming can be defined as the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels”.

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    Cynthia K Rueda Professor ESL 092 May 5‚ 2011 Research P Draft # 1 Effects of Global Warming: Life is a gift from God and we have to take care of it and the place where we live. The world we live on is at least 4.6 billion years old and has been changing in many ways (Chris Stassen). Before the industrial and technology age come to our word‚ everything was natural and clean‚ but the earth has been pushed to its limits and human race has forgotten to care of it. Now we have rivers and oceans

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    Global Warming Global Warming In this paper there are two questions that I will answer first being “is global warming due to human actions? Can the human race take action to stop global warming?” The answer to these questions in my own opinion can go either way‚ but for the purposes of this argument I will answer these as yes and yes. Humans can do something to slow down Global warming even though some causes are out of human hands this paper will explain both the human causes and the natural

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