GLOBAL WARMING In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body established by the United Nations to provide scientific advise to global policy makers regarding such issues as the buildup of greenhouse gases, evidence and attribution of climate change, and predictions of global climate scenarios over the next century, issued its inagural report. ... The IPCC's 2000 report counters by arguing that surface-temperature readings over the past 25 years indicate a sustained global warming. ... According to Singer, "proxy- records such as tree rings ...

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The Kyoto Treat requires industrialized countries barring the U.S, who has opted out of signing, to cut global warming gases by 5 percent below the 1990 levels by 2012. ... However, despite such negative criticism the federal government has proudly put their foot down in efforts to relieve our planet of global warming. ... Provincial governments such as Alberta must realize that they too are deeply affected by global warming, and that Kyoto will only save them money and resources in the long run. ... Everyone must do their part in helping to reduce global warming, the most important thing ...

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scientists don't know for sure what global warming will bring. Some changes brought about by global warming will be good. ... Global warming may make the sea level become higher. warmer weather makes glaciers melt. ... Global warming may make the Earth warmer in cold places. ... But global warming also might bring droughts to other places where we grow crops. ...

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A Global Problem: Responsibility for Climate Change. ... Because we cannot accurately predict the full consequences of global warming, Governments are unwilling to commit billions of dollars to implementing more environmentally friendly solutions, on the basis of such predictions. But the need to reduce global emissions is becoming increasingly more pressing as reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in 2001, confirms that "an increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world- with "new and stronger evidence that most of the war...

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Although scientists have came along with many ideas to reduce our carbon-footprint, we can't realistically make a difference in fixing the issue of global warming because it would be simply too difficult to change the comfortable lifestyle we all seem to live by. ... With every solution we come up with to solve global warming and to somehow restore our once green planet, there seems to be consequences with every move we make. ... " Additionally, the warming and the melting are occurring much faster than the data predicted. ... However, there are some people who believe that solutio...

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The differences of the facts were caused by this intriguing global warming that alarmed all the people in the world. ... Gore's explanation of many factors that cause global warming were shocking. ... The   disappearing canals, trees, and animals are key indicators of global warming. ... Global warming is really an inconvenient truth that is happening in the world we live in. ... The documentary focuses on a global issue which threatens our planet: global warming along with the causes and the frightening possible effects of this unwanted process. ...

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The authors take concepts like global warming (which apparently is a lie), and discuss how politicians manipulate these concepts in order to get their desired results or further their own agendas. ... It was, at times, a rather scathing annihilation of everything liberals hold dear to their hearts, and the title leads into the first chapter on the big scam that is Global Warming. ... Had I not already agreed with most of what Glenn Beck says, he would not have done a successful job of convincing me that global warming is a crock and poverty isn't because people are down on their luck ...

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