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    CLIMATE CHANGE

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    WRITING THE ANALYTICAL ESSAY One of the most frequently assigned essays in English 1101 and 1102 is the analytical essay. It can be one of the most challenging essays to write‚ but mastering its technique is very important. That is because students who advance in almost every academic field will be asked to write with an analytical focus. What is an analytical essay? The key to understanding its nature is in the word "analyze." To "analyze" the content of a poem‚ for example‚ one must break

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    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 Alaska

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    scientist have agreed that climate change is real: that the Earth’s atmosphere is warming at an increasing rate and that it is due to man-made pollution. However‚ when polled on beliefs on global warming‚ only about 48% of people in the United States said they believed in man-made climate change‚ while 31% of the public believed in climate change due to natural causes. Alternatively‚ 20% of Americans said they did not believe that there is any evidence for climate change at all (Funk and Kennedy)

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    Earth Climate Change Paper

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    Article 1: Man Influenced Event Prothero‚ Donald R. “How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused.” Skeptic 17 (2012): 2. This article was written following an opinionated editorial that was published challenging the evidence of human-induced climate change. In this article there are numerous lines of evidence that the author claims leans toward the fact that global climate change is manmade. He states that carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has increased over the last 200 years. With

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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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    Mauna Loa Climate Change

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    Climate Change is not a new issue. There have been attempts all throughout the latter half of the 20th century to curb the effects of climate change‚ and some of them have even been somewhat successful. Extremely accurate measurements regarding the amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere have been taken since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory‚ and the upward trend of the data gave us notice half a century ago about the changing of the climate. With this notice‚ several efforts have been made in the

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    Facts about climate change

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    ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE 1. What is climate change? Climate change is a long-term shift in the climate of a s pecific location‚ region or planet. The shift is measured by changes in features associated with average weather‚ such as temperature‚ wind patterns and pr ecipitation. What most peo ple don’t know is that a change in the variability of climate is also considered climate change‚ even if average weather conditions remain the same. Climate change occurs when the climate of a

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    Climate Change – Who’s Responsible to tackle climate change? I chose this topic because currently the world’s undergoing a major threat in which even the lives of humans can be at a high risk. Surely‚ humans are one and only cause of the change in these conditions. The world’s increasing the usage of fuels and petroleum day by day increases the world’s average temperature. I agree that they have a major role in our lives and I also agree that we need them to do our daily chores but this increase

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    Environmental Pollutants: Sewage and Fossil Fuels ENV/100 March 2013 Environmental Pollutants: Sewage and Fossil Fuels Environmental pollutants‚ according to the Blacksmith Institute (2013) negatively affect billions of the world’s population as a result of exposure to poisons associated with sewage and the fossil fuel crude oil. These poisons have led to long-term detrimental effects on ecosystems and has attributed to the premature deaths of 40% or 2.8 billion of the world’s

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    Climate Change in Nigeria

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    Climate Change in Nigeria Climate change has always occurred in different Nigeria; however the effects have become more noticeable recently over the years. The effects have affected the daily lives of many for better or worse. A peer reviewed research done by an unknown source‚ which was accepted by the Journal of Geography and Regional had concluded that the average temperature of Nigeria has increased by 1.7°C in the period of 1901-2005. The increase has however been higher in semi-arid areas

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