The melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice is a result of climate change. This climate change includes the decline of sea ice‚ rising temperatures and the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet. The Antarctic Ice Sheet covers around ninety-eight percent of the Antarctic continent and is the largest body of ice on earth. The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest body of ice; it covers more than eighty percent of Greenland. The Ward-Hunt Ice Shelf is the largest single
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Identify the major variables that you controlled or measured in this investigation. What type of relationship do these variables have with each other? The variable that we manipulated was the fuel to oxygen ratio and the variable that we observed was how efficiently the fuel burned in each of the mixtures. The efficiency of the combustion depended on the fuel to oxygen ratio. If mixture was fuel lean the combustion reaction would produce less soot and smoke. If the mixture was fuel rich‚ an incomplete
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Living abroad can be extremely rewarding as well as completely stressful. My first overseas assignment was while I was stationed in Naples‚ Italy. I had travelled overseas before this‚ but nothing prepared me for actually living in Italy. People from the United States can be very service oriented and sometimes have higher expectations of how services should be rendered when doing simple tasks such as going out to eat‚ shopping or just asking for simple directions when we are lost. After my first
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mean by fossil fuels and explain why they are an attractive source of energy: Fossil fuels are energy sources such as petroleum‚ natural gas‚ and coal which contain the stored radiant energy of organisms that lived millions of years ago (Tillery‚ Enger‚ & Ross‚ 2009‚ p. 67). Fossil fuels are an attractive source of energy because they are accessible and cheap. Describe two different energy alternatives to fossil fuels in detail. Discuss how they work‚ how they compare with fossil fuels‚ and
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Climate Change In the present-day society‚ the human race is advancing at a staggering rate. However‚ at the meantime‚ the environment has been polluting with the high-tech. The most obvious is climate warming. Therefore‚ we should protect the environment at once. In my opinion‚ the causes of the climate change are multiple. Firstly‚ some people have not the realized the environment which has been polluted‚ so they have not the awareness to protect the environment‚ and even damage the environment
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movements of energy like wind and precipitation. Climate is the generally prevailing weather patterns of a region. The climate of a region is made up of the different weather patterns. The weather patterns are usually repetitive according to the seasons. Where I’m from in southwest Nebraska it snows in the winter‚ rains in the spring‚ and is hot in the summer. The question is‚ has the weather and climate always been like this in Nebraska? We have proof that climate has changed in the past. Seventy million
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Natural causes of climate change Climate change is when the climate changes by warming up or cooling down over a period of time. Climate change is occurring now‚ the climate is warming up dramatically‚ and this is known as global warming.
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Climate Change: Long‚ Medium and Short Term Long term evidence: Type of evidence | Explanation | Reliability | Ice cores – CO2 | CO2 trapped in ice cores. Low concentrations of CO2 occur naturally during glacial periods and high concentrations during interglacial periods (present). 2007 measured 383 parts per million. | The number of CO2 sequences that correlate well with each other suggest it is reliable. | Ice cores – O2 isotopes | Ratio of oxygen 16 to 18 is a good indicator of past sea
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potential impacts of climate change on Queensland come under three main factors‚ health‚ environment and economics. HEALTH Effects such as the Mosquito-borne dengue fever and increasing heatwaves pose a threat to Queensland under the health factor. The future distribution of mosquito’s carrying dengue fever will be determined by climate change‚ it is expected that the disease will expand further south extending to New South Wales and even the Northern Territory. Climate change will also impact the
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EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON COMFORT LEVELS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN NURSING HOMES IN FLORIDA John Onyango1 & Angelica Tavarez 1 School of Architecture‚ University of Miami‚ USA‚ j.onyango@miami.edu 2 School of Architecture‚ University of Miami‚ USA‚ g.wang2@miami.edu Abstract It is estimated that temperature and humidity levels in Florida will increase on average by between 4° F and 11° F by 2080 due to effects of climate change. This will results in the characteristics of the indoor
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