...Our planet has a problem that it is getting warmer. Most of the scientists agree that this climate change is threatening our earth; human beings can be extinct probably in the near future. The cause and effects of this phenomenon has been studied which is greenhouse effect. The whole world is getting involved in this issue and looking for solutions. Greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that increases temperature of the earth’s surface (Australian government). However, according to the investigations, human activities enhanced the greenhouse activities, making it worse. So our climate change is due to the increasing human activities, global industrialization which ejects huge amount of carbon emissions. Human activities enhance greenhouse effect that causes widespread heave rainfalls in the northern Hemisphere during the last 50 years (Minetal, as cited in Allan, 2011).The rising temperature is disrupting every aspect in our life and the whole ecosystem. This climate change affects atmospheric and ocean circulations and brings many hazards to the earth, such as widespread drought, flood and tsunami. As we considered climate change, we need consider the common good for all the humans on the earth. The common good refers to the total living conditions which can enable individuals to get the achievement which enables people to achieve humanity (google), whereas climate change is a serious issue that is eliminating human living resouces in many aspects. As we mentioned above...
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...Our planet has a problem that it is getting warmer. Most of the scientists agree that this climate change is threatening our earth; human beings can be extinct probably in the near future. The cause and effects of this phenomenon has been studied which is greenhouse effect. The whole world is getting involved in this issue and looking for solutions. Greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that increases temperature of the earth’s surface (Australian government). However, according to the investigations, human activities enhanced the greenhouse activities, making it worse. So our climate change is due to the increasing human activities, global industrialization which ejects huge amount of carbon emissions. Human activities enhance greenhouse effect that causes widespread heave rainfalls in the northern Hemisphere during the last 50 years (Minetal, as cited in Allan, 2011).The rising temperature is disrupting every aspect in our life and the whole ecosystem. This climate change affects atmospheric and ocean circulations and brings many hazards to the earth, such as widespread drought, flood and tsunami. As we considered climate change, we need consider the common good for all the humans on the earth. The common good refers to the total living conditions which can enable individuals to get the achievement which enables people to achieve humanity (google), whereas climate change is a serious issue that is eliminating human living resouces in many aspects. As we mentioned above...
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...INTRODUCTION A Climate Repair Manual Global warming is a reality. Innovation in energy technology and policy are sorely needed if we are to cope BY GARY STIX Explorers attempted and OVERVIEW ❊ New reports pile up each month about the perils of climate change, including threats to marine life, increases in wildfires, even more virulent poison ivy. ❊ Implementing initiatives to stem global warming will prove more of a challenge than the Manhattan Project. ❊ Leading thinkers detail their ideas in the articles that follow for deploying energy technologies to decarbonize the planet. 46 mostly failed over the centuries to establish a pathway from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the icebound North, a quest often punctuated by starvation and scurvy. Yet within just 40 years, and maybe many fewer, an ascending thermometer will likely mean that the maritime dream of Sir Francis Drake and Captain James Cook will turn into an actual route of commerce that competes with the Panama Canal. The term “glacial change” has taken on a meaning opposite to its common usage. Yet in reality, Arctic shipping lanes would count as one of the more benign effects of accelerated climate change. The repercussions of melting glaciers, disruptions in the Gulf Stream SCIENTIFIC A MERIC A N and record heat waves edge toward the apocalyptic: floods, pestilence, hurricanes, droughts— even itchier cases of poison ivy. Month after month, reports ...
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...expectation. It results in not only the ecological problems, but also the social problems. Despite the fact that technological solutions serve humanity, assisting them to alter the natural environment, technological solutions have not achieved the capacity to solve all the problems absolutely in current society. Consequently, this essay holds the view that technological solutions cannot adequately address both the ecological problems and the social problems for the reason that technological solutions are just the makeshift methods to alleviate the exterior problems, and have not raveled out these problems from the fountainhead. Technological solutions only can try to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions, but cannot completely cope with global warming at the background of global motorization, which is the deniable fact. Apparently, it is unfair and unpractical for developing countries to limit the carbon emissions. According to Huimin Li and Ye Qi (2012), the carbon emissions have positive correlation with the increasing of GDP. Hence, it is no denying that developing countries like China have tremendous demanding for boosting the industry and the manufacturing. For instance: Developing countries widely use fossil fuel to produce electricity. In this circumstance, it will inevitably cause the carbon emissions. In Gonzalez’ article (2005), the WBCSD provides reforms including the development and application of technology, administrative schemes and the use of paperless. However, these...
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... Fossil fuels provide 85% of the energy used in the United States. At the same note, fossil fuels also cause 80% of the global warming pollution in this country. Therefore, there is no doubt that the United States should seek other energy sources. I believe harnessing the unlimited power provided by the wind and the sun is our best recourse. Some people would debate that these projects would be expensive. On the other hand, I think these will be cost effective, as trying to clean up the air, sea, and land from pollutants produced by coal, oil and petroleum, is even more expensive. If we are to spend money on finding other energy sources, rather than finding oil sources in the country, we might as well invest in technology to harness wind, solar and geothermal power. Sadly, some politicians do not support this idea because of vested interests. Oil and gas companies have donated $238.7 million to candidates and parties since the 1990 election cycle. Greenpeace, an independent environmental organization, states in their website that with the current technology, renewable energy sources like wind, solar and geothermal can provide 96% of our electricity and 98% of our total heating needs. Business companies can begin transitioning into using clean energy sources and should educate themselves about the different incentives at the local, state and federal levels. Greenpeace further stated that investing in these projects will help boost the economy by providing jobs that...
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...organizations put technology forward as the most efficient and economically feasible approach. This essay will outline how urban sprawl results in these problems and point out the risks of depending on technologies to address environmental issues as well as its limitation to solve the social ones. In many countries in the world, urban sprawl imposes great stress on both of ecological and social well-being. In the first place, urban sprawl causes a lot of environmental problems. One of the burning issues for the international community is global warming. In order to support the running of current transportation, the utilities to warm or cool spacious houses and household appliances in neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities, energy mainly created by fossil fuels becomes greatly demanded, thus giving rise to higher emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, which is considered as one of the arch-criminals causing global warming (Gonzalez, 2005). Besides climate change, other environmental problems, such as loss of forests and farmland, loss of architecture diversity and higher levels of noise, also result from the over expansion of cities. In addition to ecological impacts, urban sprawl arouses quite a few social conundrums like social inequality. For the urban sprawls with the improvement of mobility, in some motorized countries...
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...Chapter 5 Homework 1) How does environment analysis at the domestic level differ from global analysis? Although there are many parallels between domestic and global analysis, there also some difference between them. The important of these differences mainly depend on the complexity of analysis required. In terms of the remote environment, a global entity need stimulate the asset multiple, ever-changing political, economic, legal, social environments and so on. At the domestic level, firms usually conduct an analysis in a relatively stable political, economic and legal environment. Besides, in the operation environment, geographic dispersion gives the competitors a greater challenge to global firms. Third, in the industry environment, the forces driving competition tend to more extreme for global firms. They may face a greater number of barriers such as limit of the market, prohibition form the government policy. So at this time, the firms need the global analysis rather than the domestic analysis. 2) Which factors complicate environmental analysis at the global level? Which factors are making such analysis easier? As pointed before, the multiple political, economic, legal, social, and culture environments are faced by the global firms, which complicated the environment analysis process. It is so difficult for the firms to monitor the constant changes. Besides, the data before may not available and the reality of the available data may questionable. 3)...
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...Energy Policy and Sustainability Introduction Global climate change due to human activity is a major concern to millions of informed citizens. The U.S. government and scientific community have acknowledged the threats posed by global warming are real and stem from the unprecedented emission of greenhouse gases such as C02 and methane in the last 75 years (U.S. EPA, 2013). The United States is a major source of world greenhouse gas emissions including CO2 (U.S. EPA, 2013). The specific effects of climate change on human health and safety are numerous including access to food, housing, and changes in patterns of disease transmissions. The worldwide scale of the pollution issue complicates protecting public health and safety against the dangers of global climate change (U.S. EPA, 2013). In the past 20 years, the government has begun to put forth regulations addressing carbon emissions and global warming. While C02 emissions and connection with global climate change may be more difficult to grasp for many people than sewage spills, the connections are very personal including where we live, the car we drive, and foods we choose to eat. DISCUSSION The government has a responsibility to act to protect its citizens from the dangers of global warming. This reasoning has proved to be the basis for past and present regulatory schemes from banning some greenhouse gases to cap and trade systems to limit our nations toxic emissions. Because individuals and households contribute to our...
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...An analysis of two of the main environmental impacts of global warming and an evaluation of two recent solutions to this problem. Contents page Introduction- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Causes of global warming- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Environment impacts- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 Increasing cyclones and flood risks- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 Changing marine biodiversity- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -6 Other impacts- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -10 Latest solutions- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -10 CO2 absorption- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 Renewable energies- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11 Other solutions- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -12 Evaluate the two latest solutions- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 13 Summary- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -13 Reference list- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 15 Introduction Global warming has become one of the most challenging problems in the world today. This is the observed...
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...Marktonderzoek 2013-2014 Terry Lavrijsen Inleiding EAC (European Automobile Concepts) is een nieuwe divisie van een grote autofabrikant, Bavaria Motorenwerken. EAC werd in het leven geroepen om automerken te vernieuwen door reengineering van de bestaande auto modellen. Walter, CEO van European Automobile Concepts ( EAC), is goed op de hoogte van diverse ontwikkelingen rondom EAC, hij speculeert dat de teruggang van EAC te wijten is aan de populariteit van buitenlandse merken. De vraag voor Walter, is welke koers hij moet varen. Kleine en zuinige modellen of modellen die grote, luxe en minder zuinig zijn. Walter overweegt eerder naar de kleine en zuinige modellen, omdat de olie prijzen momenteel hoog liggen. Maar dit kan over een aantal jaar weer verbeteren, waardoor mensen dan eerder kiezen voor de luxe modellen. Maartje Glas is een werknemer bij EAC. Maartje heeft zich verdiept in de toekomstige autobehoefte, waarna ze een aantal opties heeft geschetst. Waaronder hybride auto’s een optie is, i.v.m. brandstofkosten en het minimale geluidsoverlast. Het probleem bij elektrische auto’s is de slechte infrastructuur die er momenteel is. Het zal jaren duren voordat de infrastructuur voor elektrische auto’s genoeg is uitgebreid, zodat het grote publiek er werkelijk iets aan heeft. Auto’s dragen bij aan milieuvervuiling, bijvoorbeeld door CO2-uitstoot. Met nieuwe technologieën en ontwikkelingen, zoals elektrisch rijden, kan autorijden milieuvriendelijker worden gemaakt. In...
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... lifestyle or about living environment. The words of Phinazee also portray the image of change, specifically in Mother Nature. She conveys her love to the greenery, the beauty of ocean, the openness of mountain peaks and valleys. Sadly, these generosities of nature are some footprints of past times. Today, the world is facing major behavioural change in natural environment. The crisis has started to affect even our future generation. It is undoubtedly a threat to our existence. One of the major issues responsible for the crisis is global warming. Global warming is the gradual yet constant increase in the earth’s overall temperature mainly associated to increased level of greenhouse gasses and other pollutants (Oxford Dictionaries, n.d.). The front scene indicates human activities as the main culprit of global warming but the facts behind the front scene should also be considered to get the whole picture. As these facts identify global warming as partially a natural occurrence, change in global climate pattern must not be considered as a result of human activities though the anthropocentric growth in industrialization, agriculture sector and deforestation has been argued as substantial causes of climate change. According to the environmentalists and scientists, growth of industrialization is a major reason for emission of greenhouse gas in our environment. As a result, human activities like burning fuel, building...
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...Fossil fuels come in three different forms, coal, oil and natural gas. This is a result of fossil remains of prehistoric plants and animals that have been in place for millions of years and trapped in sediments and rocks well below the earth surf. The leading exporting of crude oil are Canada, Mexico, ……..(Name top 5) Alternative/renewable energy are common “water cooler” conservation at work and dinner parties, they were also major discussions about alternative/renewable during the last presidential race. As we go about our everyday lives we constantly hear about the subject, from the evening news and our local to national print media. The increased use of alternative/renewable energy can ease the dependency on foreign oil from unstable counties and improve national security. Alternative/renewable would play a key in our efforts to also aid in reversing our global warming trend by reducing green house gases. If funding is increased for research and development it would eventually open new sectors in manufacturing, sales and service and the creation of thousands of green jobs. These get the US energy healthy and have a positive impact on the U.S economy. In short, alternative/renewable energy could have a major impact on global...
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...desirable. However, when a product is so widely used, its faults can add up to massive unwanted side effects. For example, global warming is one of the side effects that motor vehicles play a major part in what scientists call the most serious environmental problem the world faces which is the carbon dioxide (CO2) that emitted as the engine burns fuel. However, people might argue that greenhouse gas pollution which causes global warming comes from numerous sources that any single contribution seems small in proportion to the world total; collectively it becomes a vast problem especially automobile is everywhere around the world. To address a problem of such scale requires international agreements and national, states and local policies. However, making good on such commitments will require changes in how we manage every activity that contributes to the problem. For example, how much should we cut and where, and/or promo what programs to save ourselves? To answer this question, we need a clear picture of which sources contribute most to global warming. And from that point onward, we can discuss the significant of switching from automobile to public transportation. Afterward, we will be able to solve the question – is it better by just switching? What Costs Global Warming? How Damage Right Now? First, we need to understand what is global warming especially it roses up...
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...Is Global Warming Skepticism Just Smoke and Mirrors? Dependence of Man on the Environment Greenhouse warming has always been a talk of the future and the talk of skeptics, well it is happening now. Representatives from countries all over the world will meet in July, 2011 to discuss slowing down global warming by setting the limits on the countries' greenhouse gases emissions, which include the emissions of carbon dioxide the industries, machines, and cars produced. (Reis, 2011). Despite of the current evidence of global warming, people still believe that this is something that is completely made up and blown out of proportion. Global warming has a direct affect on everyone and everything on this planet. Global warming affects not only our weather when it comes to heat but also precipitation to include snow, rain and hail. Global warming also causes a negative effect on animals. Animal species have no longer populated certain areas due to the climate change and in due to the climate they need to survive are migrating to where they can get that. Scientist and professionals say that the sea levels have increased due to the melting of the glaciers. (Cunningham & Cunningham, 2009, p. 207) Global warming is commonly referred to as an increase in the temperature of the lowest layers of Earth's atmosphere. Global warming has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences, but the term is most often used to refer to the warming predicted to occur as a result...
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...that most of the warming observed in the last 50 years is due to human activities. While climate change is a global issue, it will affect us all. Climate change has the potential to adversely affect our environment, our communities and our economy unless we take action now to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for the impacts. Climate change will alter global and local climates. In Victoria, this means a warmer and drier future, with an increasing likelihood of more extreme events such as heatwaves, bushfires and storm surges. Climate change is the greatest threat facing our planet today. A warming planet alters weather patterns, water supplies, seasonal growth for plants and a sustainable way of life for us and the world’s wildlife. Climate change has already started, but it’s not too late to take action. There’s still time for us all to be part of the solution. A continuous flow of energy from the sun heats the Earth. Naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere, known as greenhouse gases – this includes carbon dioxide (CO2) - , trap this heat like a blanket, keeping the Earth at an average of 15 degrees Celsius – warm enough to sustain life. The overuse of fossil fuels is increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, trapping more and more heat and warming the Earth. As a result, we’re seeing more dramatic weather patterns across the globe resulting in devastating natural disasters and shrinking the world’s ice shelves and glaciers due to warming sea water. Because...
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