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    Global Warming (A False Ideology) Global warming is defined by Google as “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”.  The “greenhouse effect” is essential to life on Earth.  If there were no greenhouse gases‚ the temperature of the air would be about 32°F or 18°C colder than it is now.  The earth would pretty much be a frozen wasteland. We need greenhouse

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    Global warming what is it? Global warming refers to an average increase in theEarth’s temperature‚ which in turn causes changes in climate. So what’s the big deal you ask? Well the big deal is‚ if temperatures rise above normal levels for a few days‚ it’s no big deal‚ the Earth will stay more or less the same‚ but if temperatures continue to rise over a longer period of time‚ then the Earth may experience some serious problems! What causes global warming? The Earth’s atmosphere contains gases that

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    important and concerning issues‚ global warming. Many scientists and researchers have shown and proved the great number of disadvantages that this problem is causing and will cause in a near future. The main problem of global warming is the lack of consciousness among the people‚ and the careless attitude they take toward this topic. It is very important to be aware of the bad effects and the great damages and destructions this issue will certainly bring to human kind. The first and most obvious

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    Emily Braaten 11 March 2013 RELS 247: T and Th @ 11 Lester Brown and Ronald Bailey Response Paper One can both compare and contrast the worldviews of Lester Brown and Ronald Bailey concerning the degree of the current‚ global economic crisis. They both are concerned with food security being the biggest threat to our current situation. The preface and first chapter of Lester Brown’s Plan B. focuses on the different reasons for the supply and demand of food‚ how these reasons connect to nature

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    Global Warming By Abhijit Naik/30/11/2011 Global warming is one of the most serious environmental issues threatening the very existence of various plants and animal species on the planet. Over the last 100 years‚ the global near-surface temperatures has increased by 0.32SF as a result of various natural as well as anthropogenic causes of global warming. That being said‚ one also needs to take into consideration that the natural causes of global warming play a crucial role in stabilizing the

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    Global Warming Global Warming is described as the progressive gradual rise of the earth’s surface temperature thought to be caused by the alterations to the greenhouse effect and responsible for changes in global climate patterns. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Earth’s surface by carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere‚ causing the atmosphere to become warmer. This whole process occurs naturally and has kept the Earth’s temperature about 59 degrees

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    live in and it’s the only planet we have so we have to take care of it. Knowing this we are still hurting it‚ whether it is through degrading the soil or through CFC’s. Global Warming is real and its hurting our environment and it’s entirely our fault. It’s true that Global Warming happens naturally however because of the human race we have increased how fast it’s happening. There have been many meetings with other nations to control the amount of carbon-dioxide released. Along with the release

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    Background Introduction The Philippines is now on the edge of great struggle on keeping up on climate change. Not enough technologies‚ corrupted funds for problems related to climate changes‚ ignorant citizens who don ’t care about the effects of these Global phenomena’s. What lies on this country? How could we survive? Would it be the last of our kind? Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environments‚ social and economic threats facing the earth. Climate change is a

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    SUMMARY Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. It happens when high level of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are trapped in the atmosphere causing a rise in temperature. Although the idea that global warming is similar to climate change‚ there are still some distinctions with these two concepts. As mentioned earlier‚ there is a shift from low temperature to high temperature caused mainly by gases when we speak of global warming. While

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    Global Warming And Climate Change – An Issue Over the past ten years global warming and climate change has become an issue. Although is it an issue that people need to be concerned about? I believe that it is something that humans should pay attention to and be concerned about‚ but I feel that we have no impact or control over this issue. Instead of blaming people we should pay attention to the sun making a difference on global climate then maybe it could prove that it has a bigger impact than

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