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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...

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

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

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...

the increasing severity and frequency of floods, hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, drought, and heavy rains is directly related to g...

the mean temperature of the planet has been rising, and "human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean glob...

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(News Services, 2002). Various charitable organizations have pitched in as well. The World Food Program, for example, has distri...

and food for the animals and life, the forest is also a container, that ensures there is a regular flow of water (Butler, 2002). T...

over the earth and served to regulate the temperature. Without it the earth would be covered in ice. The addition of pollution t...

This comprehensive paper opposes the general thinking on global warming. Opponents to the concept are noted and arguments are disc...