Kaplan University Theme: Global Warming This is a conversation between Peter‚ an 8 year old boy and his mother‚ Mary. Peter and Mary are having dinner in the dining hall at home. |Peter |Mum‚ I was watching Nat Geo this afternoon and there was this show which showed how the polar bears are dying | | |because it seems that their houses are melting away. The polar bears looked so sad. They travelled miles and miles | | |and yet
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What is Global Warming? What is Global Warming? Lesson Objectives: • To understand what is meant by ‘global warming’ • To know what we think causes global warming. • To begin to understand how our activities can cause climate change. The sun sends out energy as heat and light. This energy comes to our earth during the day time. Some of the sun’s rays get ‘trapped’ in the atmosphere. Some of them get reflected back into space. The ones which get through the atmosphere warm the earth up. All
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Global Warming Debate Humans have known about global warming for many years. MANY people think that our concern about carbon dioxide and global warming is a modern preoccupation driven by the attention of high-profile personalities‚ politicians and green activists. But Al Gore did not discover global warming. Nor did Tim Flannery‚ Peter Garrett‚ Greenpeace or Malcolm Turnbull. Scientific concern about global warming is not new. A single scientific paper‚ published more than three decades ago
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volcanoes will erupt‚ and mountains will slide into oceans. We are to blame for this terrible disaster‚ humans have created global warming! You can minimally increase the amount of time we have by taking drastic measures that will inconvenience our day to day routine which we are so dearly accustomed to. I know that many of you are unconvinced that humans are the cause of this global climate change. But the evidence presented to us in An Inconvenient Truth is undeniable. Our former vice president Al
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Global warming Global warming is the most concerning problem of our time. Global warming is the process in which the Earth’s temperature starts increasing; it is caused mostly by human activities‚ especially industrialization‚ and pollution that are killing the Earth by emitting greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. But this reason is not the only reason why we have to stop global warming. Firstly‚ IPCC projects that the world’s temperatures will rise 1.8-6 degrees Celsius by the century’s end –
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Global warming Solutions Global warming is the concept that has all rights to be regarded a dangerous phenomenon. It is especially true for the planet that is being exposed to the global warming. Humanity contributes to global warming. Under such circumstances the humanity should think about the possible solutions. (Sisco P.‚ 2006‚ p. 43) The Earth is known to be engaged into a long-term warming cycle. The humanity is responsible for the negatives effects of the global warming. Under such circumstances
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Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing us today. It is already affecting the world as we know it; endangering polar bears‚ shortening ski seasons and creating more intense storms. Global warming is caused by the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere‚ hence increasing the average temperature of the earth. Scientists have stated that the average temperature will likely rise a further 1 to 6 °C still during the 21st century. Global warming is causing numerous problems
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Lukas Zebrauskas 09/21/10 Chemistry & Environment Global Warming Outline Thesis: How is global warming and greenhouse gases affecting our environment? I. What is global warming? A.) Global warming is when the earth heats up (the temperature rises). It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide‚ water vapor‚ nitrous oxide‚ and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere‚ which increases the temperature. II. What is the
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to live and breathe. Global deforestation is growing at an alarming rate -- every year‚ 13 million hectares of forest are destroyed. Anthropogenic factors that can affect forests include logging‚ urban sprawl‚ human-caused forest fires‚ acid rain‚ invasive species‚ and the practice of shifting cultivation. If forests disappear‚ the amount of Carbon Dioxide in air will increase‚ resulting in increase of temperature of earth. Furthermore‚ it would cause global warming as the Carbon Dioxide
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GLOBAL WARMING EFFECTS ON ANTARCTICA The effects of global warming create a growing danger for the ecosystem‚ by damaging the polar caps‚ and harming all of Antarctica ecosystem. Global warming started to occur around the late 19th century‚ and it continues to proceed to increase as time goes on. The main gases to blame for global warming are Carbon dioxide‚ Methane‚ and Nitrous Oxide. These gases are trapping the heat inside the atmosphere causing the temperature to rise‚ this process is also
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