...Why being eco friendly is essential. One of the most controversial topics and recent debates has been global warming and climate change. Everyone from researchers, scientist, experts, tourist, and the average person has studied the issue and has shared their opinions on this hot debate. Climate change is one of the biggest adversities our world has faced in the past, present, and future. One of the most common trends is that our climate is being affected by our human activity. Our human activity is causing our atmosphere to increase in temperature. Which causes the rising sea levels, the melting of ice and snow, and the overall substantial worldwide climate change. I urge each and one of you to pay close attention and see what you can do to help. Our atmosphere is getting hotter and hotter and it is starting to run a fever. Instead of treating our atmosphere and cooling it down, humankind is throwing blanket after blanket on our atmosphere and only making it warmer. These so called blankets are called green house gases. The common view from scientist and researchers is that greenhouse gases have caused most of the temperature increase in our atmosphere. Where the problem lies is that humankind is producing these greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are gases in our atmosphere that absorbs and releases radiation. The main gases in the earth’s atmosphere are carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide. These gases with out a doubt affect the earth’s temperature...
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...In about 1985 the idea of climate change began, it was produced by Maurice Strong, a socialist multi-millionaire. Today, the idea is still going strong, for no good reason. Climate change is not catastrophic so there is no need to fret over it. The first reason is that many of the numbers that climate change supporters tell you are exaggerated. Secondly, there is so much information saying that climate change is not real that it can not be ignored. My first reason against climate change is that a great amount of “data” about climate change is exaggerated or flat-out made up. For example, according to globalclimatescam.com it claims that in reality most scientists do not agree with artificial catastrophic climate change. “ 75 scientists said they believe in global warming on the other hand over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition saying they do not believe in catastrophic manmade global warming.” You have probably heard of the 99% of scientists believe in global warming, but this proves that the opposite is true. Also, a lot of scientists say that warmer weather causes more carbon dioxide causing warmer weather. But really, using a summary of answersingenesis.org a hotter climate will create more evaporation, making more clouds,...
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...Images of Organizations | | Briefly define Obama’s climate-change bill, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and what the Chamber’s position is on the bill in question and why. Obama’s climate-change bill focuses on decreasing greenhouse pollution, mainly carbon dioxide. He aspires to be a leader for the international community, and to prepare not only the U.S., but globally, the impact that global warming pollution will cause. In his combat against climate changes, he wants to limit how much carbon pollutions can be produced by large power plants in the U.S. by creating EPA limits, and to use clean energy, such as generating electricity through the usage of wind and solar energy. (Organizing for Action) The Chamber of Commerce acts as a voice for industries of all magnitudes. “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business organization representing the interest of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations.” (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) The Chamber is against Obama’s climate change bill. Chamber president and CEO Thomas J. Donohue released the following statement on June 25, 2013 “The president’s plan runs a serious risk of punishing Americans with higher energy bills, fewer jobs, and a weaker economy, while delivering negligible benefit to the environment. (U.S. Chamber’s Donohue Comments on President’s Climate Change Proposals.) The Chamber feels that the benefits of this bill...
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...Book Review: This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein, published: Sept. 2014 Summarize the book. What is being discussed? Rob Nixon of the New York Times called Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” “a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable.[1]” Naomi Klein researches the impact of Climate change and its relationship with free market capitalism. She discusses capitalism as failed economic system. She goes into great depth on the subject of resource extraction, pollution and the events of surrounding the affected communities in these regions across the world. However, rather than concluding that things are hopeless Naomi Klein argues that: We can build something better and reclaim our economic system. She argues that the market cannot save us. We have the tools/technology to get off of fossil fuels, but it requires leaving free market capitalism behind. We need to rebuild local economies, reign in corporate power and reclaim democracy. She argues that we aren’t all the all powerful saviours of the planet, but that as visitors on the earth we have to save ourselves from an earth that is rocking, burning and driving humanity into extinction because of our actions. Describe the three most important arguments or claims made in the book. The first argument Naomi Klein makes is that world leaders and climate scientists agree if we are going to avoid truly catastrophic consequences of climate change; we need to restrict...
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...Biodiversity is one issue to which I attach the greatest importance and that we have to tackle with urgency. Not only we have a moral obligation but it will be significant for our contribution to the next Copenhagen conference on Climate Change at the end of this year. To protect biodiversity is one of today's great challenges. Over the last four and a half years, the European Commission has been at the forefront of the fight against climate change. This is an area where Europe can be justifiably proud of its role as a world leader. And it is an area where we cannot afford to fail. The success of our climate change policy will also be measured by the success of our efforts in stopping the loss of biodiversity. These issues – like so many of the challenges that we face – are irrevocably interrelated, just as the link with energy and energy security has helped to develop our understanding of the importance of climate change. The loss of biodiversity is a global threat that is just as important as global warming. It threatens our natural environment and thus, the quality of our life. But biodiversity underpins also our economies. It is not therefore only because of the love of nature or a vision for our environment that we should keep biodiversity on the political agenda. Efforts made by this Commission have concentrated on our ambitious target: to put a stop to the loss of biodiversity in Europe by 2010. For that, we must implement existing legislation such as the Birds and Habitats...
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...Paola “The Cause and Effects of Climate Change” The alteration of our climate nowadays has been very evident due to climate change. It has been affecting our lives in many different ways. And It is one of the biggest problems our world has been facing. What is Climate Change? A change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century on wards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. There are two main causes of climate change. The first one is Natural Cause. Volcanic eruption is one of the examples. When a volcano erupts, it release big amounts of sulfur dioxide and dust particles in the air, will then travel to the atmosphere and will block the incoming sun rays and will lead to cooling of the atmosphere of the earth. Another example is the ocean current. It happens when the winds push horizontally against the sea surface and drive ocean current patterns, as well the movement of carbon dioxide affects. Moreover, another cause is the earth`s orbital changes. It happens due of tilting of the earth that affects the severity of the seasons. Second is Human Activity. Natural Resources are being used extensively for constructions of industries, transport and other establishment that causes greenhouse gas to rise which results to the warming of the earth surface. And the effects of climate change the first one is our human health. High...
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...(Name) (Instructors’ name) (Course) (Date) Action on Climate Change Problem Definition and Knowledge on Climate Knowledge The world is continuously experiencing the terrifying impacts of climate change. Most recently, portions of Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic and Caribbean United States of America were hit by Hurricane Sandy, which later developed into a super storm. Scientists had previously warned that climatic changes have increased the likelihood of occurrence of hurricanes of such magnitude. Other effects of climate change that continue to be experienced include increased frequency of droughts, decrease in crop productivity, water stress and the rising of sea levels. The problem is that these effects of climate change are predicted to worsen since the global average temperature continues to increase. Governments have set and embarked on a global goal, aimed at limiting the degree of warming to below 2oC above pre-industrial levels by 2100. From a scientific standpoint, it is unfortunate that there continues to be a significant gap between the actualities of global emissions, and the level of mitigation on climate change that is required to stay below 2oC by 2020 (Bowen and Ranger, 16). From a political and philosophical context, there are actions and commitments for both the short and long-terms, which had been agreed upon in previous conferences such as Copenhagen 2009, and agreements such as the Bali Road Map of...
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...GEOG-1303-016 November 12, 2014 Mr. Philip Rodriguez Climate Change in Europe The UNFCCC expects the climate to keep changing in the whole world, Europe’s territory is even more vulnerable to this climate changed because it has a lot of mountains and coasts. Another inconvenient that makes Europe be is at the mercy of the climatological changes is the fact that it is far from the artic. This climate changes are affecting us because the weather is being extreme in places is not supposed to be, we are having floods, hurricanes, and ever earthquakes because of this phenomenon. The biggest reason of the climate changes the ice and glaciers melting is because of the greenhouse gases. We all can agree that the planet is changing by itself like everything in this world, everything evolves because that is the way nature is, but humans are rapidly accelerating this process. Almost all of our daily activities involve something that will create greenhouse gases. Technology has become a very important aspect in everyone’s life, the now called smart phones are used throughout the whole day and recharged about 2 or 3 times a day, this makes energy consumption increase each day and this makes global warming increase as well. Also the hurry in which people is leaving these days are making people generate 3 times the garbage they used years ago. The long-term analyses from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reveal that if we don’t do something to stop it, it will...
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...The Lie About The Climate Change I find all the arguments that the climate change is caused by the mankind and every article, speech , movie and documentation about greenhouse gases, global warming and ways how to reduce our emissions very stupid. Many scientists and the media tell us, that our CO2 emissions cause the climate change while there is no proof for it. The earth’s atmosphere contains around 0,038% CO2 and the humanity caused 1, 2% of ‘all the’ CO2, most of it by forest clearance. That means that many scientists and the media want us to believe, that the 0, 00046% of CO2 we added to the atmosphere are the cause of a natural disaster. Even if the media wants to keep them under wraps, there are still some scientists left, who show some theories about the climate change that are much more plausible. It’s totally normal, that some periods are warmer and some are colder. One point is, that the Earth orbit isn’t always the same. Sometimes it’s formed like a circle and sometimes it’s more like an ellipse, it changes every 100.000 years. The inclination of the axis of earth does also change. These days the northern hemisphere is turned away from the sun when its winter and the lack of sunshine makes it colder. This could be an explanation of the Ice Ages, and it also means that the southern hemisphere, or the parts of the world which are affected by global warming mostly, are turned to the sun right now. Researches also show that all climate changes are connected with...
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...In the article “Warming, not!” and the blog “Matt Patterson & The New York Post Clueless About The Climate” the authors Matt Patterson and Jerrald Hayes are having very different opinions and points of view on the subject global warming and climate-change. Matt Patterson, the author of “Warming, not!”, is a conservative political writer and the article is published in New York Post. Patterson claims that the evidence for global warming has been exaggerated and is just plain wrong. He states that the climate-change theory is facing a sudden collapse, because of two recent arguments: The first argument being the observations that Monnett and fellow researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004 - of four polar bears drowning after being forced to swim long distances in the open sea, because of the climate changes - are now being questioned and investigated. Monnett has now been put on “leave” due to integrity issues. The other argument being a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Remote Sensing’ by Drs. Roy Spencer and Danny Braswell. The two scientists had compared the predictions about what the atmosphere ‘should’ do and what satellite data actually showed during the 18 months before and after warming event. They found that the computer models vastly overestimated the greenhouse effect. According to the two scientists the Earth is far more capable of equalizing its own temperature than people might think. Matt Patterson closes the article saying that there is a huge discrepancy...
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...Peoples Attitudes towards Climate Change A group paper is presented to the faculty of Mindanao University of Science and Technology – Jasaan Campus presented by Steven Castino, Geneth Caturan, Marjohn Deleon, John Henry Mercado, Julan Aricayos, Kimbert Pacana, Joseph Sumayang, June Rey Tarpin, Richard Nacua, Joel Cabelto, and Rey Carlou Cailing. I. Introduction Climate Change or Global warming is the increase of the average temperature of earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses. Scientists believe earth is currently facing a period of rapid warming brought on by rising levels of heat-trapping gases, known as greenhouse gases, in the atmosphere (Harvey, 2012). Ironically, “It is not climate change that is our problem, but the attitude of people that should be addressing the problem” (Fernandez, 2012). Most previous studies evaluating the cause of awareness to the people towards the climate change is the effects of people’s attitude towards climate change (Gallup, 2008; Barret & Dannenberg, 2012). Most of the studies confirm the explicit and implicit attitudes towards climate change suggest targeting hidden thoughts a better way to change people’s behavior (Corner, 2010; Kormos & McIntyre, 2011). There are also findings that proved the countries to firm one another to build human activities towards climate change. This paper is intended to transport cognizance on the necessary ideas on what are the people’s perception towards climate change that have been affected...
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...gas” a lot—but what is it? Humans add various gases to the earth’s atmosphere every day; these gases (known as “greenhouse gases”) consist primarily of carbon dioxide, ozone, chlorofluorocarbons, nitrous oxide, and methane, and tend to warm the earth. Trees help counter greenhouse gas production during photosynthesis, by taking in carbon dioxide as waste material and producing oxygen, which of course we all need to survive. Scientists predict that the daily addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, combined with daily removal of large portions of the world’s forests, will raise the earth’s average temperature by several degrees in the next century. This in turn will raise the level of the sea and potentially create significant changes in weather patterns on a global scale. As we move into the future, many climatologists expect that most of the United States will warm. What we do not know yet is how to scientifically predict which parts of the nation will become wetter or drier. We do know there is likely to be an overall trend toward increased precipitation and evaporation, and more intense weather systems, in the form of violent rainstorms, blizzards and sun-baked, drier soils. The Facts—What Do We Already Know About Changing Global Conditions (Global Warming)? Global temperatures are rising. Observations collected over the last century suggest that the average land surface temperature has risen 0.45-0.6°C (0.8-1.0°F) in the last century. Precipitation has increased...
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...5. Discuss some differences between organizational culture and organizational climate. Give at least one example of some aspect of each in a place where you have worked or observed. Do the distinctions between these concepts make a different to you? Explain. Organizational culture is an idea which describes the psychology, attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values (personal and cultural values) of an organization. Organizational climate is the workers opinion of the conditions at the worksite that have a direct bearing on how well they do jobs today. As seen below you can see how climate and culture are contrasted. 6. Discuss the practicality of changing an organization’s culture. Do you think it’s possible? What are some of the issues and difficulties? It is possible to change an organizations culture it is hard and requires a lot of work especially when there are many people who are accustomed to doing things in certain ways and don't like change. The more rigorously the culture is applied the more the concept of organizational culture gains in interpretative power and the more it loses in practicality. 7. Using Hofstede’s conceptualizations of culture described in your textbook, discuss an example of a “cultural conflict” you have observed or read about. Hofstede concept of culture involved power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity, and long-term orientation. To me anything that deals with people of different cultures and the way they live are...
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...Anthropogenic Climate Change B M B PHI 103 Barri October 29, 2015 In this paper we will discuss the topic of Anthropogenic Climate Change, which is also known as global warming. Is anthropogenic climate change a problem that needs immediate and/or long term attention? The answer is becoming more evident as the years pass, but in short, it is yes for both immediate and long term. Anthropogenic climate change is having a substantial effect on natural and biological organisms on a global scale, and is considerably more severe in some continents. Below I will state my argument on how we need to do something now and for future generations. “Anthropogenic climate change refers to the production of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity” (Anthropogenic, 2012, Para 1). Anthropogenic climate change is in fact becoming more obvious even to people who usually do not have a concern about climate or geological systems. Walter, and Schönwiese state that “an anthropogenic induced climate change is already observable in climatic variables, e.g. near-surface air temperature” (Walter, A., & Schönwiese, C. D, 2003). Maxwell tells us that “eminent climate scientists have come to consensus that human influences are significant contributors to modern global climate change” (Maxwell, 2008). Some of the fundamentals of this anthropogenic climate change come from high levels of Carbon Dioxide or CO2 which is mainly generated from humans using fossil fuels as an energy source...
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...significant reasons I am against the Dakota Access Pipeline. For instance, our president Donald Trump has had stocks in the pipeline, and sold them off last summer to avoid a conflict of interest. However, the chief executive Kelcy Warren, of the pipeline company, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), has made generous contributions to his political campaign. It appears Trump deliberately made the stocks for this company soar (Mufson, 2016). Secondly, the pipeline runs through sacred land according to the Sioux tribe and there are concerns it will contaminate their drinking water (Worland, 2016). Many protesters were arrested for their diligence in standing with the Sioux tribe in Standing...
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