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    There are four major factors when it comes to nature causing climate changes; volcanic eruptions‚ ocean currents‚ earth orbital changes‚ and solar variations. There are three major factors when it comes to humans causing climate changes; transportation‚ deforestation‚ and fossil fuels to generate energy. Volcanic eruptions can cause the climate to change. When a volcano erupts tiny particles called aerosols shoot into the atmosphere. These tiny particles reflect solar energy into space and cool

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    Global Climate Change Everyone is talking about it‚ and the news is constantly covering it. But nobody ever does anything about it. The “it” is global warming. Global warming has been steadily increasing since the industrial revolution at alarming rates causing extreme weather including droughts‚ floods‚ heat waves‚ and hurricanes‚ which is a major concern. In fact‚ it’s increasing at a rate of 10% every year (IPCC). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a group of scientists

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    because of some havocs‚ but it is US-human (Al Gore‚ 2006‚ internet). We are destroying our world indirectly which means we do not just go and kill those entire animals‚ but what has caused their extinction is due to “Climate Change” that is the result of the Natural Causes and Human Activities. We used to look at how natural causes have contributed to climate change‚ but human is now even playing a bigger role in causing climate changeClimate can be defined as the average weather effected by slow

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    Climate Change Regulation xxxxxxxx August 13‚ 2011 University of Phoenix Climate Change Regulation Climate change is occurring unexpectedly and the government needs to address different ways to approach the situation. With the different climate change that is going on‚ society and especially the government needs to analyze and collect data to gather information as to how the situation can be handled. “Climate change should go beyond traditional state and transnational regulation

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    To put it in its simplest terms‚ climate change refers to the long term change in the earth’s temperature‚ particularly an increase in the average atmospheric temperature (Dictionary.com). Although there are some natural causes for climate change‚ most scientists are in agreement that humans are at least in part responsible for some of the effects we have already seen and must therefore take corrective action immediately to slow the process before it is too late and irreversible catastrophic damage

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    Climate change has been disputed by people and scientists for a very long time. Some believe that human activity has nothing to do with climate change‚ while others believe that humans are the number one cause of climate change. Two of the most common arguments I found were that the earth has been warming and glaciers have been melting since the last ice age. The second is that rising CO2 levels do not necessarily cause global warming. Skeptics believe that although the earth has warmed 1.4 degrees

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    Greenhouse gases are the cause of global climate change. The main greenhouse gasses are water vapor‚ carbon dioxide‚ methane‚ nitrous oxide‚ and chlorofluorocarbons. Although most of these gases are natural‚ they are all being put into the air at a much more dangerous rate than normal. Water vapor‚ the greatest natural contributor to global warming‚ and lasts about nine days in the atmosphere. Water vapor is in the atmosphere more recently‚ because there has been more water that has evaporated because

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    of Americans aren’t worried about climate change‚ but little do they know that our planet is going through a disastrous process that we have caused and that it could potentially end up killing us. This process is climate change. Although the rates at which our planet is warming are very slight‚ this slight warming can have a huge impact. This is a pressing issue because our Earth is constantly warming and many catastrophic events could occur if global temperatures rise. For example‚ sea

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    edge of great struggle on keeping up on climate change. Not enough technologies‚ corrupted funds for problems related to climate changes‚ ignorant citizens who don ’t care about the effects of these Global phenomena’s. What lies on this country? How could we survive? Would it be the last of our kind? Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environments‚ social and economic threats facing the earth. Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather

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    TRINITY COLLEGE L6 SCIENCE GEOGRAPHY CLIMATE CHANGE: NATURE OR NEGLIGENCE The climate of our world is changing‚ but why? There is a great debate going on in the scientific community on whether our current climate change crisis is a natural occurrence over millions of years – as what has happened on the planet of Mars – or this natural process is being accelerated by man’s negligence. But first we must establish what is climate change? Climate Change is a long-term shift in the statistics of

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