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will be five days from now. Their "job" as protectors of the sea is being severely threatened as they decline in mass with every ...

work appears in the New Yorker; this book started out as a series of pieces she did for the magazine (Hayes, 2006). What gives Kol...

atmosphere have been measured since the late 1950s (Schneider). These measurements have revealed a steady increase in the amount o...

should an organization like the United Nations address the issue on a worldwide basis to assure that all nations adhere to a stand...

the sea of nutrients that animals need for survival. On land, a global warming trend could impact agriculture; providing too much ...

scientists. Citizens must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it, which cures make sense, and which might be wor...

place, but it is still being delayed and is still controversial. The impact it may have on the market is not known. In order to ...

to issue on climate change, but looks at the entire concept of sustainability, of which climate change is one issue and the develo...

reliance on carbon fuels is damaging: he notes that it makes us dependent on the Middle East, which is notoriously unstable; and t...

trouble, but by which time it will be too late to do anything about it. Id like to tell you some of my concerns, because you are t...

what experts believe about the relationship between war and changes in the climate caused by global warming. The results of this l...

while people care about global warming, they do not care enough to "give up their cars or sacrifice a standard of living based on ...

in opinion over the last few decades, with a general acceptance that it is the human influences which is causing damage to the env...

"same freedom for imagination and desk-top investigation" that is utilized by empirical ecologists in the field (Wu, 1994). Both o...

(1768-1830), of a "huge glass bell jar, made out of clouds and gases," which holds the "Earths heat close to the surface" (Lang). ...

will increase with intensity (Siegel, 2007). Fearnside (2007) expands on that notion and writes: "In 2005 Amazonia was hit by a v...

naturally and are not sufficient in size to significantly alter the current climate problems (Dawicki). Iron was added at 2 locati...

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

food; they provide resources (such as oil and natural gas); and they are a "highway" for commerce among countries (Exploration of ...

more than doubled over the past decade" ("What is Global Warming?"). In addition, approximately "279 species of plants and animals...

the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues have developed computer mod...

attention in the media or grant money to continue their studies. If this were true, then these scientists would not even be known...

natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...

this is simply a humorous, tongue in cheek look at a real problem. In some way, humor lightens the seriousness of the dilemma. It ...

since the administration began. But, now, or just recently, with Bushs address, global warming has arisen as a topic of concern pr...

course, the change that will occur as a result of increasing temperatures is not in dispute. If temperatures continue to rise, it ...

2100, sea levels may rise by 3 feet (Schulte 34). Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology blame warmer water for the fa...

Center, 2006). In terms of finding the percentage of industries or activities that contribute to global warming one author...

goals and limitations. The greenhouse effect, that natural regulator of the earths climate, has been altered by the additio...

automobile since its invention. However, not only is gasoline a non-renewable resource, but it now appears that it has a potential...