Success (examples) | Limitations (examples) | Kyoto Protocol | Successes of Kyoto ProtocolGermany met the emission targets for the 2008 to 2012 period under the Kyoto Protocol already in 2008. Greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 22.2% or roughly 280 million tons in 2008 compared with 1990. This exceeded the target of 21% set previously. | Limitations of Kyoto ProtocolDeveloping countries that did not sign the Protocol contribute largely to the global emissions. For example in 2012‚ China emitted
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Global Warming: Cause and Mitigation Your Name Professor Name SCI 110 - Introduction to Physical Science June 12‚ 2013 Global warming‚ also referred to as climate change‚ is real. The question remains‚ is man or Mother Nature responsible for causing it? The Nobel Prize-winning chemist Svante Arrhenius first proposed the idea of global warming in 1896. He knew that carbon dioxide traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere and that burning fossil fuels releases
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Global Warming Life is Changing Global warming is the most urgent environmental problem the world is facing. Few‚ if any‚ trends are more important to our future than climate change caused by ... Severe droughts‚ flooding‚ increased disease‚ and major disruption in ecosystems are the likely consequences of the global warming caused by industrialized human activity‚ or climate changes are a natural part of Earth’s history and no cause for alarm. These two scenarios are polar opposites posited
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Is Global Warming real? The term global warming does not have a universal definition. It is a term used by many governments‚ organisations and companies to describe the rise in the average temperature on Earth’s surface. Deborah White says ‘Global warming refers to the increased temperature of Earth’s surface‚ including land‚ water and near-surface air’. The atmosphere is made up of various gases‚ some of these gases are called greenhouse gases. These natural gasses do not cause concern‚ however
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Introduction: Global warming is gradually becoming a serious concern to our environment and our planet as a whole. Nature is now showing signs with unique changes affecting our lives. When the surface temperature of the earth heats up human beings are not the only ones who feel the changes and also react in some way. Animals and sometimes even plants will also be affected by the global warming. What is global warming: An overall warming of the planet based on average temperature over the entire
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GLOBAL WARMING Name Instructor Course Date Global Warming Climate change caused by global warming is the hugest environmental crisis the world is facing. Global warming is termed as a gradual increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans‚ a change which has been proven to change the earth’s climate completely. Looking at the data presented by scientists‚ it is evident that the earth is warming. It is the current discussed factor addressed across
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. Introduction about global warming. 1. What global warming is. 2. General views on global warming. II. Some global warming causes. 1. Using transportation and burning fuels. 2. Deforestation 3. Landfills 4. Population III. Effects 1. Rising sea level. 2. Drought and flood. 3. Weather patterns changes. 4. Ecosystem IV. Solutions 1. Stop deforestation 2. Use public transportations 3. Plant forests 4. Developing
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Global Warming Throughout the years‚ many topics have been brought to attention and have caused many controversial discussions. Being one of them‚ Global Warming has been the number one controversial topic for decades. One main subtopic talked about has been the different types of “effects” Global Warming has caused on this Earth to go through. One effect is Greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years
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Global Warming Global warming is the most pressing challenge facing the world today. After examining what global warming is‚ I have realized that human activities have a large impact on how the earth’s surface temperature is due to the greenhouse effect. I also have realized the impact that global warming can have on the earth. We as human’s need to do what we can to lower our contributions to the global warming before it is too late. Global warming is the increase of earth’s average
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Global Warming Essay July 11‚ 2011 Sci 256 Many people today believe that global warming is still nothing but a theory discussed by some weird scientists because they just want to scare us. But in reality there are many climate issues happening and people are very confused on what is really happening. Some theories of global warming are the “Green house effect”‚ changing sun‚ ash from volcano and natural variations in climate such as El Niño. Most scientists agree that global warming is caused
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