Running head：HOW GLOBAL WARMING COULD CAUSE AN ICE AGE How Global Warming Could Cause an Ice Age Or：What scientific knowledge do we learn from the movie‚ “The Day After Tomorrow”？ Wang Yao-Wei （Daniel） ESL 306 Kelly Cathcart March 10‚ 2006 What is global warming? This is a very popular issue all over the world. In order to learn more about global warming‚ we should go through what makes the earth warm and how warming affects the earth. The first thing we need to be familiar with is the
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Paula Garcia Ms.Thoeun AP Language & Composition P.2 02/17/15 Deforestation: A Disastrous Future Ahead With the world coming to a high need of land for agricultural‚ industrial and most importantly urban needs to contain cities and their growing population‚ an action that we have to recognize as “Deforestation” occurs. Deforestation is the cutting down of a forest for human activities. Once the trees are removed‚ the land turns into a non-forest area‚ which is normally used for agriculture. Most
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1. Explain how observed teleconnection patterns can help in the preparation of a seasonal weather forecast. So the simple way of explaining a teleconnection is a warmer and cooler pacific can influence rainfall. “we saw how a vast warming (El Niño) or cooling (La Niña) of the equatorial tropical Pacific can affect the weather in different regions of the world” (Ahrens‚ 2015‚ p.271). These major storms as we learned in earlier chapters affect people in many regions of the world. A seasonal forecast
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1. Global warming was once an uncommon term used by a few scientists who were concerned about the decades of pollution affecting long-term weather patterns. 2. Good morning/afternoon whatever your teachers name is and fellow classmates. Today the idea of global warming is well known‚ but not many people understand it. 3. It is not unusual to hear someone complaining about a hot day or a freak storm and remark‚ its global warming. Well‚ is it? Although there has been a scientific consensus on
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Thunderstorms Kyle Cowan Known as the electric storm‚ thunderstorms occur all the time. When a thunderstorm starts to occur‚ the air starts to cool as it rises. Cumulus clouds start to form as water vapor starts to condense. As condensation occurs‚ heat (latent heat/energy)‚ starts to release from the atmosphere and assists the thunderstorm in becoming created and grow. Soon as the thunderstorm is formed‚ condensation high in the cloud (now in the form of water droplets or ice) starts
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~ INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY‚ KHARAGPUR Date: (FN/AN) No. of Students: 163 Subject No: EV20001 2"d Year B. Tech.: AG‚ BT‚ MT Time: 2 hrs. Full Mark~: 60 Autumn Mid Semester Examination‚ 2012-2013 Subject Name: Environmental Science Section 4 Answer all questions l. a) Show that the gain for the climate system can be expressed as‚ GF = ___!}___. 1- f Where‚ G and fare the transfer function and the feedback of the climate system respectively. Write down the above expression for several
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Snowball earth is when the Earth was covered by ice and snow from pole to pole for long periods of time in the past. The average temperature on the surface was about -50° and at the equator it was about -20°‚ which is roughly the temperature of Antarctica today. This is because the solar radiation from the Sun is reflected back into space due to the icy surface of the Earth. The oceans play a major role on the temperature fluctuation associated with day and night and because the oceans have a layer
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B. 1) It definitely gives me a clear indication of the weather conditions. In london it was very misty/foggy‚ but as she slowly left london behind it started to thin out and patches of blue Rosamond Lehman uses many of the ’fabric’ metaphors so we get to see how the mist looks‚ which is in turn‚ describes the mist/fog much better. "Lentil‚ saffron and fawn left behind." The words Lentil‚ saffron and fawn are all brown‚ orangy earthy colours describing London as she leaves it behind. London is all
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Raining Bad weather/ rain makes me feel happy -weather has little effect on our mood. -Usually the rain makes people miserable‚ but it causes the total opposite to me. I love the rain‚ It makes me happy! Is this a strange thing? Especially considering that most people become sad when the weather becomes worse. - but when it’s all dark and gloomy with rain pelting down‚ I feel in a good mood. I don’t feel the same when the sun comes! haha. Although‚ maybe it’s because I don’t feel comfortable
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SALINITY Problems arise in the world due to salinity‚ as when the salt gets on to the top of the soil.....it causes disaster to the plants and trees. Salt comes in many forms in the natural environment—calcium‚ magnesium‚ carbonate‚ sodium chloride‚ bicarbonate‚ and sulphate. Many landscapes are naturally saline‚ but secondary salinity isn’t so natural‚ occurring when salts from deep within the earth are dissolved and deposited into soil and water as a result of
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