Natural Hazards Drought 2011 East Africa Drought The East Africa drought began in late 2010‚ when rains that usually fall between October and December did not arrive. The East Africa Drought affected most parts of Kenya‚ Ethiopia and Somalia. This lack of rain continued through 2011‚ driving food prices to unprecedented amounts. Due to two farming seasons being missed‚ many could not afford to buy food and fodder from more fertile areas. Approximately 12.4 million people were facing food
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Background Information Background Information Coffs Harbour is located on the Mid North Coast‚ between Sydney and Brisbane. It has a semi-tropical climate consisting of hot summers and mild winters. The Coffs Harbour area experiences high rainfall averaging between 1200 mm to 1700 mm per year‚ most rainfall occurring in late summer/early autumn. The landforms surrounding Coffs Harbour influences the rainfall greatly‚ The Great Dividing Range passes close to the area and the area has no major
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Johnathan Richardson 2A In a speech given to the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on July 28‚ 2003‚ entitled "The Science of Climate Change"‚ Senator James Inhofe concluded by asking the following question: "With all of the hysteria‚ all of the fear‚ all of the phony science‚ could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?" He has claimed "some parts of the IPCC process resembled a Soviet-style trial‚ in which the
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References: McNamara‚ Greg (NA) Tsunamis Fact-Ite‚ Planet Earth. Retrieved From http://www.gsa.org.au/resources/factites/factitesTsunami.pdf Australian Government (NA) Tsunamis Fact and Information‚ Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved From http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/info/index.shtml SMS Tsunami Warning (NA) Tsunamis: The Effect. Retrieved From http://www.sms-tsunami-warning.com/pages/tsunami-effects#.VPJd4fnF9rF Jessa‚ Tega (September 6‚ 2009) Effects of Tsunamis
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After two or three false starts‚ Jean Dubuffet became a prolific and monumental artist and writer who made a substantial and lasting contribution to world culture. And although he professed a profound disdain for culture and tradition‚ he cultivated and maintained relationships with leading French intellectuals‚ philosophers‚ artists and playwrights until his death in 1985. As important as Dubuffet’s own work was‚ his collection of outsider art which he termed Art Brut is probably even more important
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Opportunity Rover Research Paper Review of Science Fiction Paper My science fiction paper will chronicle the Mars rover Opportunity’s time on the planet Mars from a first-person viewpoint. Opportunity will describe the destitute land of an empty planet and crippling loneliness as its twin‚ Spirit‚ gets stuck and ceases communication in 2010 [1]. Finally‚ Opportunity will reflect on the hope it has for its wellbeing as the Curiosity rover lands on Mars in 2012 [2]‚ only to realize that its mission
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Inconvenient Truth” warns the public about global warming‚ but scientists who are skeptical of climate change have the most to fear -- from politicians. Richard Lindzen‚ a Harvard trained atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ says that the science of climate has become a "climate of intimidation." He explains that "in 1992‚ Senator Al Gore ran two Ayala 2 congressional hearings during which he tried to bully dissenting
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change is the alteration of weather and climate attributes orvariables and it is a result of an interplay of factors Climate ranging from natural phenomenon to human factors [Zhakata and Makarau 1995] .Major components of the climate system include ‚temperature ‚ precipitation‚humidity‚ pressure and others . According to Waugh [2000] climate refers to the longterm atmospheric behaviour while weather refers to the state of the atmosphere at a local level and on a short term
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[pic] Besieged by Climate Deniers‚ A Scientist Decides to Fight Back (A Summary) Ora Major Unit # 1 Written Assignment LS526-02 Professor Brandy Kreisler December 12‚ 2012 According to reporter and climate scientist‚ Michael Mann‚ he and other scientists are being hostilely confronted and unfairly treated because of the results of their research by critics or by those who do not choose to believe or want to accept that climate change or global warming is real and is caused
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Climate Change SUMMARY: Climate change is one of the most contentious public policy go through the world today. While there is just about no argument challenging the matter of the ongoing global warming‚ what is essentially being questioned is whether climate change is anthropogenic or simply a natural‚ cyclical phenomenon upon which human activities do not cast a major impact. This paper will make an effort to compare these two opposing perspectives on climate change. Greenhouse Effect Because
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