influence an area’s climate are incoming solar energy‚ the earth’s rotation‚ global patterns of air and water movement‚ gases in the atmosphere‚ and the earth’s surface features. It is important to understand the difference between weather and climate. Weather is a set of physical conditions of the lower atmosphere‚ including temperature‚ precipitation‚ humidity‚ wind speed‚ cloud cover‚ and other factors‚ in a given area over a period of hours or days. Weather differs from climate‚ which is the general
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Climate change is already hitting Africa hard however‚ the IPCC (International panel on climate change) have suggested that Africa will be getting even drier and continue to steadily warm like it has warmed by 0.5 degrees Celsius since 1900. Already being amongst the poorest countries of the world‚ many African economies are expected to suffer further drain as global warming continues to rise. Most African economies are heavily dependent on agriculture; reliable for their survival‚ selling cash
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to type to‚ no iPods to listen to and no televisions screens to watch to. It’s going to be hard. But on the other end of all these innovations that the new generation have come up‚ what are the consequences? Two words: Global Warming; or Climate Change‚ or Climate Crisis or worse‚ Planetary Emergency. Yes you read it right. Sad as it is‚ even human development has its own corresponding and unwanted consequences. It is called global warming as a whole‚ a term we’ve been hearing so much these past few
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There are five causes of climate‚ latitude‚ elevation‚ ocean/wind currents‚ terrain and closeness to large bodies of water. There are many types of climates. Two interesting climates are the Mediterranean climate and Ice Cap climates. These two climates are very different. The Ice cap climate is located only near the poles‚ while the Mediterranean climate is mostly located on the western sides of continents. The first climate is Mediterranean. This climate is located between the 30 and 45 degree
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Mars Climate Orbiter As science progresses through the 21st century‚ our race must not totally forgo the hard work and dedication past scientists have put in to developing standards and models that everyone can use worldwide. Hundreds of years ago‚ scientists worked to create methods of classifying and interpreting data that could be read and understood by people universally. In September of 1999‚ scientists at NASA lost contact with a multi-million dollar project during an atmospheric entry to
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Over the course of history‚ humans have had a huge impact on the environment ranging from climatic changes‚ endangerment of certain species‚ and pollution of planet Earth. The drive of society to improve the standards of living have resulted in technological advances that to a certain extent have simplified our life; however‚ the toll it has brought upon Earth is intolerable. Veronica Perez Rodriguez & Kirk Anderson and Hazel Delcourt have addressed the issue on how our predecessors actions have
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December 2013 Did Climate Affect Human Evolution? Climate and environmental change has played a vital role in Earth’s history‚ and the outcome of these changes has been anything but idle in the evolution of primates. These drastic transformations in the planet’s atmosphere have been the impetus of evolution among species and has sparked interest to geologist and paleoanthropologist for years‚ resulting in a number of hypothesis that “propose that climate-driven environmental changes during the past
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Clive Hamilton‚ in “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering“‚ examines the actuality of geoengineering‚ the so-called protective measure for global warming. He digs deep into the potential repercussions of the precise processes enveloped by the pretentious term “geoengineering”‚ calls for the inspection of the root germ of the infection at stake and advocates for the alteration of our attitude rather than experimenting naively with the greatest of the ecologies. Hamilton provides
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change is the alteration of weather and climate attributes orvariables and it is a result of an interplay of factors Climate ranging from natural phenomenon to human factors [Zhakata and Makarau 1995] .Major components of the climate system include ‚temperature ‚ precipitation‚humidity‚ pressure and others . According to Waugh [2000] climate refers to the longterm atmospheric behaviour while weather refers to the state of the atmosphere at a local level and on a short term
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In “Climate of Complete Certainty”‚ Bret Stephens asserts that the scepticism towards climate change results from the total certainty scientists impresses onto the public about global warming‚ despite scientific errors (Stephens‚ 2017). He criticizes the scientific community for being misleading with data that he claims has not been thoroughly investigated. With that‚ it is evident what Stephens neglects to understand is how the scientific community operates and why there is scientific consensus
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