you opened the car door, you must have felt currents of hot air blowing past you. The moment you sat down, you might have felt as if your car was burning the heat! This is a small, yet effective example of a process called the GREENHOUSE EFFECT. This effect involves a certain body of matter, be it a car, or a green house in which plants are grown, or the earth itself GRIPPING heat or radiation from another body, in our case – the sun. In case of the car, the glass enables the assimilation of
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Global Warming Did Humans start it and can it be stopped? SCI 207 Stacy Murphy October 8, 2012 Global Warming: Did humans start it and can it be stopped? Humans have used planet Earth and its resources like they had no end. But for the few years they have started coming to realization that Earth and the people on it cannot survive for much longer, if they don’t change the way they are living. Now that it has come to this, they are trying to strategize and come up with ways to try and save
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Global Warming Mitigation Strategies and Solutions David Zavala University of Phoenix/Axia College Our atmosphere took billions of years to develop into what we know today but technological advances have given today’s society the power to change the atmosphere in less than a century. The revolution that began in the late eighteenth century made it possible for inventors to create many energy-saving machines. The only energy these machines save is human energy and time because these machines
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Global Warming When we think of Global Warming, we tend to think of ice melting or the sun burning so brightly that it causes massive breathing problems or sun burns. What is global warming though? Global warming is also known as the greenhouse effect. It’s called this because what happens is that the earth’s typical temperature rises because gases like carbon dioxide that is created by fuels burning, or from large areas that have had trees and wildlife cut down to make room for cities and roadways
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窗体顶端 窗体底端 The global warming speech you will find below discusses a topic close to the hearts of many of us. In fact, it's a topic that is likely to remain current until measures designed to protect the environment are seen to be having a positive impact. Beginning of Global Warming Speech "That so many of us are here today is a recognition that the threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing. Our generation's response to this challenge will be judged by history
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Global Warming: A Serious Problem for our World Trey Lee Northeastern State College Intro to Environmental Global Warming Global warming is a serious problem for our world. Global warming is an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. 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
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is limited. Thank you for using WritePoint. The Greenhouse Effect on Global Warming By: Crystol Woodfin Pollution in our [Use "we," "us," or "our" to mean yourself and coauthors, not general humanity (or yourself and the reader)] world is leading to increased Global Warming. This Global Warming is a problem that if it doesn't effect us, it will effect [Check spelling--"effect" is a noun, the result of some action (The effect of the weather can be mood changes); "affect" is a verb--it acts
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Global Worming Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. The global average air temperature near the Earth's surface raised 0.74 ± 0.18°C during the last 100 years. The delay in reaching equilibrium is a result of the large heat capacity of the oceans. Increasing global temperatures will cause sea level to rise, and is expected to increase the intensity of extreme weather events and to
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Global warming is a very sensitive topic and one of the biggest troubles facing the world nowadays. Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperatures of the air and sea at Earth’s surface and the climate change. Over decades, scientists and researchers have made plenty of researches and decided that the temperature of the world is rising. However, this increase in temperature is mainly due to human activities on the Earth’s surface. In its recently released Fourth Assessment Report
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Melting Point: The Issue of Global Warming What is Global Warming? Well, it is just that, our planet is getting warmer. Due to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in our atmosphere, we are retaining excess heat that usually is radiated into space. This excess heat that is being captured by our CO2 enriched atmosphere is now causing a rise in temperature that could affect nearly every aspect of life. If we do not stop our excessive carbon dioxide output, major changes could happen to our environment
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