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enjoy. This is just to illustrate the key point again: that physical environment affects people in deep and fundamental ways and i...

to the effect of greenhouse gases, temperatures are increasing worldwide, which produces drastic and frequently catastrophic chang...

(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...

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

fact, the highest of the last millennium. It is important to note, however, that no actual temperature data exist prior to the mi...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

its airports and service facilities. This land consumption both directly and indirectly impacts the environment. Although the in...

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 ...

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...

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

are sounding the alarm. Discussion In one sentence, Meyer shows why the case for human activity as a cause of global warming can ...

of greenhouse gasses, in other words, CO2 and other gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere and increase the temperature on ea...

extremes of temperature and in which wind is instrumental in forming the landscape, i.e., by shaping dunes and snow drifts. Furthe...

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

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

to benefit from such a boon - as is the case with any sort of social improvement - the vast majority was able to bask in the up-an...

champion, aided by the very visible image of Richard Branson. If the firm is really one that can be seen as a peoples champion wit...

amounts of carbon dioxide, with industrialization being the primary cause. Burning fossil fuels and industrial-dictated changes i...

addressing it in a knee-jerk reaction wont be of benefit to anyone. Trying to make a decision in this scenario without considering...