We have all heard of climate change, either along the absolute denials it is even occurring or the apocalyptic scenarios. At this stage it is an irrefutable fact that climate change is occurring on a global scale, with the effects being experienced everywhere. Ranging from negative effects such as desertification, rising sea levels and numerous others to the occasional positive one such as the warming up of the temperate regions. The causes have been hotly debated in various forums and by people
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1. What is El-Nino and La-Nina phenomena? El Nino is a band of anomalously warm ocean water temperatures that periodically develop off the pacific coast of South America. Extreme climate change pattern oscillations fluctuated weather across the Pacific Ocean which results in fluctuating droughts, floods, and crop yields in varying regions of the world. There is a phase of 'El Nino–Southern Oscillation' (ENSO), which refers to variations in the temperature
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Greenhouse gases, are increasing into our atmosphere causing climate changes. Scientists call this climate change – Global Warming. Sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting, and storms are raging fiercer than ever before such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. As the Earth spins each day, the new heat swirls with it, picking up moisture over the oceans, rising here, settling there. (http://www.nmsea.org) Is the climate caused by things that humans are doing or releasing into
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measurements that indicate climate change is occurring is the National Climatic Data Center; it contains the instrumental and paleoclimate records that will precisely define the nature climatic fluctuations. Other resources are ships, buoys, weather balloons, weather stations and many climate proxy records like tree rings and ice cores. The National Oceanographic Data Center receives the ocean data that can reveal the way heat is distributed and redistributed over our planet. Climate information goes
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topic of much debate, heated arguments and even the creation of environment oriented groups that look to impact the modern industrial world with their views and protest driven rallies in an effort to spread awareness about climate change. Cause and Mitigation Climate change has certainly been a bigger topic of discussion now than it has ever been in the past 10 years. While "some people speculate that the current global warming trend is part of the natural cycle"(Hilderman, 2011, para. 1), there
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This upsets the delicate balance between heat and cold that is usually maintained on earth. It traps more heat inside the earth's atmosphere. Although there are people who argue against it, there seems to be a change in the climate in recent years. Climate change to a warmer climate is the result of excessive global warming. There has been an overall rise in temperature of a little over one degree Fahrenheit during the last century. The figure for this century is
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fossils in order to uncover facts about the different species and organisms that roamed the Earth up to 3 billion years ago. Using this knowledge, scientists have learned more about the geological processes that continually happen today, as well as climate changes from the past and present, the origination and extinction of species, and the birth of certain deadly diseases. It has helped shape the hundreds of hypotheses and theories about the beginning of the earth. A fossil is defined in Clark Larsen’s
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warming. Over the last few decades climate change have lead scientist to develop a theories that human beings are the major contributors to the global warming crisis. Many theories suggest that different types of issues contribute to the warming of the planet but the mitigation strategies to slow this process down vary as well. When speaking of this topic there are two basic types of climate change, natural and anthropogenic. Main contributor in the climate change or global warming can be referred
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I. History of El Niño El Niño is one of the most powerful forces driving global weather. El Niño is a reoccurring phenomenon on earth that alters the climate across half the planet. El Niño was discovered hundreds of years ago off the coast of Peru; "El Niño" means different things to different people. In Spanish, El Niño means small boy or child. In capital letters, 'El Niño' refers to Jesus as an infant was named after the Christ child ("Dictionary.com"), because it usually starts around Christmas
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way that humanity reacts to climate change may do more damage to many areas of the planet than climate change itself, says a new study published in Conservation Letters by Conservation International's Will Turner and a group of other leading scientists. The paper "Climate change: helping nature survive the human response," looks at efforts to both reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and potential action that could be taken by people to adapt to a changed climate and assesses the potential impact
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