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 quick build-up of the said category 5 storm was seen in rapid pace due to its movement to the unusually warm waters of the Loop Current; again, temperature has something to do directly with the said phenomenon.    ... Al Gore explains the fact that," forty percent   of sea ice in the Artic melted over the pas...

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Ice cores, sediment layers, and tree rings tell us about what the Earth's climate has been like in the past. ... At the peak of the last ice age (18,000 years ago), the temperature was only 7 ∘F colder than it is today, and glaciers covered much of North America! ... A glacier is a large sheet of ice that moves very, very slowly. ... Oceanfront property would be affected by flooding, and beach erosion could leave structures even more vulnerable to storm waves. ...

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He describes his work as a storm, "no one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards like a hurricane" (58); Victor expresses the extent of his mania, the conflicting feelings that swirl around inside him, the turmoil they cause. ...

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A warming of about 4 C, to which we may be committed in less than 50 years, would result in an ice-free Artic Ocean which will not only devastate arctic ecosystems, but will further climate change and weather. A warming of this extent could also begin an irreversible disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheets which would result, within a few hundred years, in a further rise in sea level by at least 6 meters. ... Warmer temperatures, rise in sea level, changes in precipitation and water availability, altered storm patterns, and changes in growing seasons are all implications of the gr...

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When two or more witnesses give their account of an event, the story never comes out the same. The differences, as Browning fully realized in The Ring and the Book(1868-69), provide for powerful ironic tensions. Over and over again, in Browning's poem, the story is told of what happened on the fatal...

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When the Ice Age ended the sea levels rose and Ireland and Britain were both cast away from Europe, hence preventing the spread of snakes to Ireland. ... After the Ice Age finished Ireland was mostly populated by settlers from Scotland, although there were probably those who came across when there was still a land bridge between the two countries. (Ireland was probably populated before the Ice Age finished but most would have perished during the Ice Age and only the most hardy of life forms would have survived.) ...

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A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancien...

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