FROM: DATE: April 12‚ 2012 RE: Recommendations for Executive Action on Climate Change Introduction and Summary Chapter One of the National Research Council’s report‚ entitled America’s Climate Choices‚ begins with the following: “The United States lacks an overarching national strategy to respond to climate change.”1 The report recommends that the U.S. address this policy problem (in essence‚ a problem of omission) in part through a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.2 The U.S. is theoretically already
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themselves “Arizonians” are aware of these high temperatures and have adjusted their lifestyles to them. Yet‚ models pertaining to climate change show that in the future these temperatures will rise (Bahre & Shelton‚ 501). This rise in temperature will affect Arizona’s agriculture‚ environment‚ and people. The increase in temperature will produce no winners. The climate change in Arizona will complicate lives for the people
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and animals. Today the oceans are at risk because of human activities. The main problem is climate change which leads to other problems within such as ocean acidification and pollution; these effects can all have an ever lasting impact on what’s in the ocean and what’s out. Paragraph 1: Climate Change (ocean acidification‚ CO2 ‚etc.) One of the main dangers of the oceans today is climate change and from this comes a whole range of other issues which can further impact the Earth’s oceans
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Suggest ways in which climate change might affect Africa’s physical environment? Many things will happen to Africa’s physical environment as climate change happens‚ however the main ones will be: decreased or no change in crop growing with some even going down over 20%‚ decreased rainfall in parts where there already is only 1-100mm a year anyway; it contains around 29% of the world’s mammals‚ birds and plants and also 17% of the amphibians and reptiles‚ and finally Africa has a lot of low lying
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many of the most prominent‚ yet commonly looked over‚ indicators of anthropogenic climate change present in society today. Often these indicators are in connection with many other obvious‚ more recognized factors such as the emission of greenhouse gases or the drastic change in global temperatures. More specifically‚ ocean acidity can be looked at very closely to determine the severity of the situation of climate change‚ and how it is consistently affecting our planet’s marine ecosystems in a negative
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Climate change has many effects on New England food production. As the temperature rises the crops being grown currently can not survive the warmer climate and a valuable source of food and income has been lost. Farmers carefully plan their growing‚ planting‚ and harvesting seasons and if the temperatures are unpredictable a farmer’s crops could be ruined overnight. Many crops are affected by climate change. Different crops need to be grown at different temperatures in order to survive. New
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In this essay I will explain the natural causes of climate change I will talk about the Milankovich cycles‚ sun spots and also volcanoes and cosmic. Milankovich cycles consist of 3 different variations of cycles the first one is orbit which changes the earth’s orbit from spherical to elliptical this happens every 100 thousand years this changes the earth’s solar input. During the elliptical years the summers are very hot and the winters are very cold however when it is the spherical the weather
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conducing a project on the climate condition of Mongolia . They would like to investigate whether or not his success in conquering the largest contiguous land in the history which is 31 million square kilometres is related to the climate condition of Mongolia at that time. Thus‚ the project identifying the relationship between climate and the rise of a new leader and to make the previous climatic records more comprehensive is conducted. Scientists believe that climate condition which is closely
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How Does Climate Change Affect Plants? Historical climate change has had a profound effect on current biogeography‚ so we can expect our ongoing and rapid climate change‚ to have as great an effect. Climate change has important implications for nearly every aspect of life on Earth‚ and effects are already being felt. * Temperatureeffects–average‚ minimum or maximum can be important determinants of plant distribution For example the Palmae/Arecaceae are cold intolerant as their single meristem
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does stagnant water increase the mosquito population‚ but slight increases in climate temperatures can increase the mosquito population by greatly. In the article‚ Climate Change and Health: Global to Local Influences on
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