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    Relationship between Climate Change and Migration There are many ways which people might be displaced or compelled to migrate because of climate change and extreme weather. Rapid – onset events include hurricane and floods which lead to displaced people temporarily. Drought and desertification are called slower – onset events. Despite slower – onset events are a gradual effect of humankind; it can become more dangerous for a long time for environmental and humankind. Droughts have already affected

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    Introduction Climate is a term used to summarise the long term atmospheric elements that cause the short term weather patterns received in a place (“Climate” Britannica 2015). Climate change is the alterations the climate goes through due to a number of factors. These factors can be described as natural or anthropogenic (“Climate Change” Britannica 2015). Natural drivers of climate change are as a result of natural processes such as changes in the solar activity‚ volcanic activity or the Earth’s

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    caused on climate change as been discussed over years without answer as to say if the gradual warming of the earth is a natural process or if human activity has added to the acceleration of climate change or is the key behind it. Evidence of this is the hockey stick debt as temperature rise rapidly once humans became developed. One thing we do know is that there are many natural events that possibly could accelerate global warming but also many human factors to. Thus making climate change hard to

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    and Atmospheric Administration‚ has been taking data of the ocean temperature for years to analyze climate change‚ though in a recent leak from a former NOAA scientist‚ the data taken from the ocean were not from buoys‚ which was how they were taking data originally but they weren’t getting the results they wanted. Since they saw that the water was getting colder‚ which contradicted climate change‚ they decided to switch halfway through the experiment to taking data from cargo boats‚ which had a

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    Kaur 1 Mr. Scarfe Biology 23 May 2014 Global Climate Change: Causes and Effects The Earth goes through natural phases of warming and cooling‚ due to changes in the Sun and volcanic activity. During these changes‚ the temperature fluctuates a little bit. However‚ the drastic incline in the temperature of the earth over the past century cannot be explained by these natural causes alone. What could have had the power to cause this drastic change‚ and what effect will this have on our planet in

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    Climate Change Regulations SCI/362 August 09‚ 2012 Climate Change Regulations Anthropogenic climate change is an establishment phenomenon. Within the scientific community‚ the question is no longer whether climate change will occur‚ but at what rate‚ with what effects‚ and what‚ if anything‚ we can do about it. The biggest culprit in climate change is an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide‚ which is generated primarily through burning fossils. Earth’s average temperature is based on

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    TRINITY COLLEGE L6 SCIENCE GEOGRAPHY CLIMATE CHANGE: NATURE OR NEGLIGENCE The climate of our world is changing‚ but why? There is a great debate going on in the scientific community on whether our current climate change crisis is a natural occurrence over millions of years – as what has happened on the planet of Mars – or this natural process is being accelerated by man’s negligence. But first we must establish what is climate change? Climate Change is a long-term shift in the statistics of

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    Climate Changes The world’s climate is not so good‚ in the article wrote by Thomas L. Friedman “Stuff Happens to the Environment‚ like Climate Change” (The New York Times) where it is explained how climate change is taken differently by all the large industrial economies‚ including United states. Friedman’s claim is that some candidates running for presidents do not pay attention to the severity of these problems and why voters should not vote for them‚ which is a good start to address climate problems

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    Consensus on Climate Change” written by Naomi Oreskes is intended to let the readers understand that there is a consensus that anthropogenic global climate change is occurring. In her essay‚ Oreskes states that although some groups claim there is not substantial evidence that Earth’s climate is being affected by human activities‚ overall‚ the scientific community is in agreement that evidence is quite clear. “IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth’s climate is being

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    Climate Change Will Hit Genetic Diversity By Virginia Gewin of Nature magazine Climate change represents a threat not only to the existence of individual species‚ but also to the genetic diversity hidden within them‚ researchers say. The finding promises to complicate assessments of how climate change will affect biodiversity‚ as well as conservationists’ task in preserving it. DNA studies have revealed that traditional species‚ as defined by taxonomists

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