I was used to boiling temperatures of around 80 degrees and walking round with no top on, but now I have come to a place where I would have to wear a suit everyday and feel the cold temperature of Ohio every time I opened the door. ... Luckily, when I got out of the basement everything looked the same, apart from some bushes and twigs that were out of place. ... This is how the planet is supposed to work". (9) Then he states that we, humans, changed the equation and this is what is leading us to natural disasters. The authors then bring up that when scientists discovered that humans were heati...

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All of which were not decided by society and are the physical environment and its natural processes. However, there is mounting evidence that new human technologies and decisions by society are causing changes to the physical environment resulting in natural hazards. ... Lots of rainfall, meant the floodgates of the dam were opened stopping the dam from bursting but increasing the discharge of the river in Bangladesh which then caused a major flood (WWF international, 2001). ... They therefore didn't predict or prevent which caused more deaths as no one evacuated. ... This then links to...

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In 1997, representative met in Kyoto, Japan and produced an agreement known as the Kyoto protocol which is an agreement that commits agreeing countries to reduce their greenhouse gases by the year 2012 to the levels that they were at in 1990. ... The acceptance of the Kyoto protocol is one of two steps; in 1997, countries who accepted the purposes of the accord as valid goals signed the protocol and then had much time to deliberate and suggest amendments to the protocol. ... While fresh fruit is completely biodegradable, and poses no threat to the environment, the plastic containers and cardbo...

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Each one of these gases has there own set of environmental problems that come along with it. ... What is being done now Even though there is a lot of work to be done in the area of emissions in order to secure the environment of future generations there are some great efforts that are taking place in our present that have proven to be very helpful. ... The equipment used for roadside sensing was leased from the University of Colorado and within five mounts time 218 vehicles have been repaired 271 vehicles were retired. ... Second problem that would occur if we were to switch to this energy so...

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This claim is important because a similar or greater warming phase has occurred in the very recent past, before human CO2 emissions had caused CO2 levels to rise, then clearly any such recent warming must have been natural and was not caused by CO2. And if any recent similar warming phase was natural then clearly the current phase of warming could also be a natural phenomenon. If the current phase of warming could be natural then those arguing that it was primarily caused  by human CO2 emissions would have to prove their hypothesis. ... It's certainly true that there's no way to...

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Yes, there would be a growth in the job market but who gets these jobs? ... According to an interview in the winter edition of The No Frack Almanac, Navarro Adams and Jim Laverty have not seen any of the benefits that gas companies have promised. ... I know this for a fact" (Alderson 6) Both then spoke about how rent and food prices have been exacerbated. ... There are also major risks of economic catastrophes that come along with fracking. ... Although Halliburton was able to prevent people from finding out the dangers of their practices initially, they were not able to silence the voices of ...

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So, by burning biomass fuels we release no more carbon dioxide than would have been produced in any case by natural processes such as crop and plant decay. ... But the minister added that the Canadian biodiesel industry "has not been able to produce and sell the large quantities of fuel that were forecasted.... The government sets a price per ton on carbon, and then translates it into a tax on electricity, natural gas or oil. ... It can then sell its extra allowances to other companies. ... There is much discussion about whether a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system is the best way to pu...

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Members of Congress that opposed the treaty feared the economic impacts that might happen if the United States were to meet its emission reduction commitments. Today President Bush has stated that he has no intention of sending the Protocol into the Senate for ratification. ... The goals of the Kyoto Protocol were made not by science, but by political negotiation, and therefore are ineffective ("United States Policy"). ... Signing the Protocol would distort investment and waste billions of dollars on anti-pollution equipment and research, accomlishing no real change in global warming("United ...

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Research indicates that carbon dioxide levels in the pre-industrial era were 280 parts per million; today they are 350. ... When tropical forest is cleared for pasture land, there is an immediate loss of carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. ... The well-known syndicated columnist George Will, in reviewing the work of Campbell, argued that even if he proves to be right, human ingenuity can then provide some alternative source of energy to replace oil. ... Up to this point, oil has been plentiful enough, and cheap enough, that no global substitution strategy has been developed. ... Howe...

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If present trends in the release of CO2 to the atmosphere continue, the preindustrial level of CO2 will increase another 30% in 50 years, and then double by the year 2100. ... Based on scientific experiments, if atmospheric CO2 were to double, the average global temperature would rise by between 3.5 and 4.5 C. ... If global temperatures were to rise by 4 C, the potential evaportranspiration would increase 30-40 percent, while precipitation would only increase 10-15 percent. ... Studies are conflicted, there are biogeographic models that estimate that desert shrublands could increase by as m...

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The data gathered and the trends of different climatological graphs were well introduced to the public for better comprehension. ... Together with this, many catastrophic events were said to start intensifying resulting to many losses for instance, Hurricane Katrina, the largest and most destructible storm that occurred in the U.S in 2005,recording a huge number of victims and millions of dollars in damage. ... 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 warmin...

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Prominent among those predictions was the report's conclusion that if no measures were taken to reduce human production of carbon dioxide - the "business as usual- scenario - CO2 concentrations would likely double by 2065. ... Both reports concluded that human activity was continuing to increase atmospheric CO2 concentrations and that global surface temperatures were escalating. ... According to Singer, "proxy- records such as tree rings and core drillings show no global warming since 1940. ... The data collection technique is therefore to test surface ocean temperatures at various lo...

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Tropical forest, such as those found in then Amazon, is responsible in controlling the water cycle, which provides water for specific regions. Half of the world's 'anti-caner plants' were originally identified in forests. ... Although it is a demanding figure that needs to be resolved, there are not many things that can be done to prevent it from increasing. ... Contaminated waters with mercury and VOC will make fish no longer safe to eat because they are infected with metal pollutants. ...

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There have been lots of definitions over the years which have been used to describe this term, (Gladwell, 2006) defined tipping point as a dramatic movement when an idea, trend or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips over and spreads very fast. ... For every tipping point, there is a phenomena that is forced to cross it, they are known as tipping elements (Lenton et al., 2009), they are components of any system that can be switched into a desirable or undesirable state as a result of a particular condition or conditions by a small disturbance, thereby defining tipping point as that criti...

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There are also several positive side effects. ... Other forms of credit production can be produced by no carbon producing energy sites such as wind turbines as depicted by this quote"[T}he development of a wind turbine by Yorkshire Water at Saltend treatment works in Hull, England to reduce its carbon emissions by 1,150 tonnes per year" (WARD). ... " (Keating) Even at 15 percent there is still a large chunk of revenue to be made on larger spills such as the Exxon Valdez (1989) or BP Deepwater Horizon (2010) in witch "4.9 million barrels of petroleum flowed into the Gulf of ...

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