Climate Essay

Everyone talks about climate change and how the Earth is slowly deteriorating, but no one seems to have specific examples. In Linnea Saukko’s “How to Poison the Earth,” she does use specific examples of what is causing climate change. She uses satire with a hint of sarcasm in her essay. She gives the reader specific examples of how to poison the Earth, but not really wanting to poison the Earth. Gretel Ehrlich writes her essay, “Chronicles of Ice,” a little differently. She uses personal experiences of visiting a glacier and the way that it is falling apart to explain climate change. She uses detailed, sensory description to explain

In 1985, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) evaluated the Silver Creek Wetland, and qualified it for environmental protection. A re-evaluation was done in 1995, and a decision was made to combine three areas into one complex. The provincially significant wetland is listed as “unimpaired” and protection was recommended in 2000 by Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority’s watershed health monitoring summary. As the area provides vital biological, social, and hydro geological functions, protection is crucial. Not only does the area act as flood control, water purification, and sediment containment, it is a prime fishing location for locals as it provides a cold-water habitat and spawning grounds for several varieties of game fish such as brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Numerous species of birds, such as the Caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia), the great egret (Ardea alba), the black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), and other waterfowl also favour the staging and feeding grounds that the

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. About half of the Bay’s water volume comes from salt water from the Atlantic Ocean. The other half drains into the Bay from its enormous 64,000-square-mile watershed. Estuaries are among the most productive environments on earth, creating more organic matter each year than similarly-sized forests and agricultural areas. Estuaries also provide diverse habitats for wildlife and aquatic life, protect our communities against flooding, reduce pollution of waterways, and support local economies through commercial and recreational activities. Thousands of species

East Turkey Creek is located in southeast Arizona in the Chiricahua Mountains along the New Mexico border. The Chiricahua Mountain Range is one of the largest Sky Islands in the Sky Island region of the United States with a total area greater than 140,000 ha and elevations ranging from approximately 1,100 to 2975 m. East Turkey Creek is located on the eastern side of the Chiricahua Mountain Range and flows northeast from its spring source in Rustler Park towards the town of Paradise, AZ before fully infiltrating. Stream flow near the source is perennial, whereas most of the stream is characterized by intermittency, usually drying up to remnant pools in late May or June. The flow itself is driven in part by spring source and in part by early spring snowmelt, with peak flows occurring in July and August during the monsoon season. The nearest climate station is in Paradise, AZ. The average minimum temperature is -4.2°C and occurs in January. The average maximum temperature is 31.2°C, occurring in June. Mean annual precipitation is 486 mm (Western Regional Climate Center, Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary, www.wrcc.dri-edu).

The Moccasin Creek Hatchery will continue trout plants in all major forks of the Stanislaus and Tuolumne River system. Some smaller stream plants have been suspended, such as Herring Creek and other small feeder streams. Pinecrest Lake and Lyon's Reservoir will continue to receive plants, but in smaller numbers, thanks to State budget cuts before the season. Beardsley Lake was planted recently while the water level was still up on the launch ramp. With the smaller numbers of fish available, plants will be concentrated more in campground areas such as Frazier Flat, Clark's Fork, Dardanelle, and Kennedy Meadow.

These creatures specifically prefer have environments such as small springs to splash around and wade in (Martensen, par. 6); however, they tend to live in dry glade areas. This ecosystem consists of a wide variety of abiotic and biotic features. The abiotic features of glades generally consist of little soil content, high amounts of bedrock, and annual average rainfall amounts around 42 inches (“Outline: Missouri Ecosystems, par. 2). In terms of biotic features, the glades holds a variety of reptiles, insects, forbs, and grasses (“Outline: Missouri Ecosystems, par. 2-3). In terms of their direct effects to their respective ecosystems, there is a large impact on most of the ecosystem’s energy

In Long Island, the marshes are wetter and vegetated areas are shifting from high marsh to low marsh or to mud flat, which are far less productive and give fewer services than the salt marshes and other high marshes that are supposed to be there. (Kirwan 2013

A tidal salt marsh is a community of plants and animals that thrive in wet saline conditions (ADBC, 2010), which rely on the tides to bring nutrients, such as oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorous. As the tide leaves the wetlands, pools are exposed which shorebirds can feed on larvae without competition from fish that was impossible during the time period of water diversion and dam construction. The land became baron; an area of waste land, until 1967, when the water originally diverted for irrigation of fields, was redirected to the lowland area. In 2006, a tidal inlet was successfully opened after 107 years, allowing the tide to flow to various parts of the wetlands which had previously been closed off (ADBC, 2010).

Climate change is a rising issue of importance in our day and age, and one that is threatening our global society on many levels. In the past few decades, scientists have discovered that our planet’s climate has been changing at an alarming rate. The way in which we have changed the land to

Thermal stratification of lakes refers to a change in the temperature at different depths in the lake, and is due to the change in water's density with temperature. In temperate regions such as Illinois where lake water warms up and cools throughout the year,lake overturn occurs. Lake overturn is a cyclical pattern that is repeated from year to year as the cold dense water at the top of the lake sinks. In Illinois we would have overturn when spring starts throughout summer and through the beginning of the Fall season. Another topic related to Lake stratification and overturn is winter and summer fish kill. Fish kill is whenever a large amount of the fish population dies at one time. Winterkill is the result of a significant decline in oxygen during a long period of ice cover. As long as the body of

NGS integrates greenhouse into other major policy initiatives, such as the Natural Heritage Trust, and launches new measures to increase greenhouse emission reduction activities across the Australian community. It provides the strategic framework for an effective greenhouse response and for meeting current and future international commitments. It will provide a fresh impetus for action by governments, stakeholder groups and the broader community and set directions for that action into the next century.

The physical structures of wetlands are shaped by geomorphological processes, which involve the movement of mass and fault movement.The Gwydir Wetlands are part of a wider area of wetlands which originally covered over 200,000 ha but has been reduced to just over 100,000 ha in the upper parts of the Murray-Darling Basin.They are the most significant inland wetlands systems in New South Wales.When flooded they form an important site for breeding waterbirds

Vegetation covers more than half of the Stumer Creek catchment (52%), although urban areas (41%) are rapidly gaining as many new housing estates are under construction or planned. All other land uses account for the remaining 7% of the land area. The vegetated areas of the catchment are concentrated in the northern half, with the southern half being almost entirely urban. The mouth of Stumer Creek is constrained in a relatively stable position by outcrops of organic sand rock under the beach.

The purpose of this report is to introduce the model of the Earth's climate system. By discussing the importance of sustainability and the change of variables in the system. Environmental sustainability is the ability to preserve an ecological balance by preventing overuse of natural or non-renewable resources by maintaining the rate of use of renewable resource and the pollution creation. Therefore modeling a system can help engineers discuss different system designs and indicate the advantage and disadvantage of the system also list out the problems and the solutions to provide a project which suits the rule of sustainability.

U.S. Conditions like Florida and other states with a high range of hot spells are perfect