?SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN ALASKA? Scientists believe that a decrease of between 65% and 80% of carbon dioxide emissions is necessary to prevent the effects of global warming (?Carbon Dioxide?) and government taking actions to find solutions in Alaska. To create awareness the government has released new climate data‚ tools‚ and mapping of Alaska that will assist them to understand and prepare for future climate change (Wuebbles and Jain 2001 p. 99-102). Permafrost has been a major problem in
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The average temperature of the earth’s surface is rising. According to the Natural Resources Canada: Overview of Climate Change in Canada‚ “the influence of anthropogenic climate change on Canada is evident in observed trends and temperatures simulated by global climate models” (Government of Canada)‚ which can have devastated impacts on humans (e.g. humans can die of heat stroke). The summer issue of Statistics Canada’s EnviroStats (2011) has a nation-wide survey on air conditioning. Surveys demonstrate
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Climate Change and Food Production Every day citizens throughout the world go to the grocery stores in order to purchase food for their families at a reasonable price but lately these prices have been increasing which has been affecting many of people around the globe. The agriculture industry and we citizens are being hit hard by these temperatures. One of the major reasons for these increasing prices is the increasing temperatures that are gradually rising each year. Over the last 50 years
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down on our ecological footprint‚ and are making many changes to transition from being developing country to a more economically developed country. Known as‚ “The Land of Volcanoes” we are susceptible to many different types of natural disasters‚ such as hurricanes‚ earthquakes and volcano eruptions‚ and our lack of disaster prevention which lead to poverty‚ inequality‚ and have brought disaster and destruction to El Salvador. Climate change in our world today is a big issue‚ our industrialization
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Doha Climate Change Negotiations: Moving Beyond the Dueling Dinosaurs to Bring Together Equity and Ambition The vast plenary hall was nearly empty. Nation after nation had ministers and negotiators stand up for their three minute statements on the progress of these 18th annual climate negotiations taking place in the cavernous Qatar National Convention Center in the desert near Doha. Slim and greying American lead negotiator Todd Stern mounted the steps to deliver what everyone assumed would be
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The Clouded Comprehension of Climate Change: A Debate which burns hotter than the Sun itself Tom Foulger’s view on climate change: A threat to global security. A threat bigger than anything we have ever encountered before. And most dangerously‚ a threat that is beyond our control. Words like ‘unprecedented’ and ‘extreme’ are the words which are increasingly used to describe the weather around the world today. Unprecedented flooding‚ unprecedented amounts of rainfall‚ unprecedented melting
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effects of climate change are slowly affecting our future generation today. Pope Francis‚ S.J had a point in saying that we have the “responsibility to care for our common home” because we are the major contributors to the earths destruction. One of the less studied aspects of climate change that seems most alarming for our “common home “is social issues. The issues seen in the social aspect of climate change are the effects on the poor‚ education‚ business‚ health‚ and technology. Climate change
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our earth‚ its for OUR land. The time has come‚ a fact’s a fact‚ the heat is on‚ and there is no turning back. Our world is under threat and Australia is not doing enough to halt the catastrophic consequences that even a two degree Celsius change in the climate will have not only on humans but also the entire world’s environment and ecosystems as well as the millions of different species that inhabit them. Did you know that if sea levels rise 63cm‚ 130 million people will be flooded per year due to
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many of the most prominent‚ yet commonly looked over‚ indicators of anthropogenic climate change present in society today. Often these indicators are in connection with many other obvious‚ more recognized factors such as the emission of greenhouse gases or the drastic change in global temperatures. More specifically‚ ocean acidity can be looked at very closely to determine the severity of the situation of climate change‚ and how it is consistently affecting our planet’s marine ecosystems in a negative
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The main reason of my fascination for climate change issues is that this challenge has brought to surface the impacts and consequences of what I consider the worst face of ignorance:greed; and it raised the importance of collaboration. Nowadays‚ while there is still uncertainty about the best way to address global warming‚ there is no doubt that all parties -governments‚ businessmen‚ scientists- now understand that they must work together to discover ways of managing what we are facing‚ and as a
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