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Climate change is a global issue that is becoming more and more dominant in the world today. According to the Met Office, climate change is wide scale issue that is caused by a shift in Earth’s average temperatures. (Unknown, 2015). The potential impacts of climate change can be separated into two different categories; direct impacts and indirect impacts. The indirect impacts are knock-on effects that are controlled by the direct impacts. These indirect impacts can be as severe as the direct impacts. For example, sea level rise is just as major as the flooding that may come as a result of the rising sea level. If people start to realise the impact that climate change is having on the world (both socially and environmentally), then the effects of climate change may be reduced slightly. In this essay, a variety of direct and indirect impacts will be described and how they affect both Newcastle Upon Tyne and Sunderland.

Arguments on the veritable source of action outlined in the paper are the sun, the long-term quazi-periodic process, the urban heat-island effect, and the greenhouse effect. Most of the cases on the natural force have been rejected or eradicated, such as the sun, due to contradicting evidence found by further research on the hypotheses stated. The most

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Climate change is a issue that widely talked today. As the National Weather Service reports, the hottest temperature records are extending all over the United States since year 2010 (Schlesinger, William H, 2014). It is obvious that our world is heating. Global warming become more and more seriously. With the increase of temperature, many environment problems occur to have huge impact on our urban life, including: the sea level rise, air pollution and drought. These environment problems also endanger our area in a large part.

Reviewing the requirements for a hotspot makes the fact that the North American Costal Plain is 1 of only 36 hotspots in the world makes this fact so much more aspiring. When looking at a map it is clear that the North American Costal Plain starts in Mexico and goes all the way up into Massachusetts, and Louisiana is completely nestled into this plain. Looking closely into different regions of the North American Costal Plains shows that even though these regions are all a costal plain they each have their own setting and unique characteristics. To reflect on why the biodiversity varies, this paper will explore some of the North American Coastal Plain briefly.

My favorite non-fiction piece is The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, which tells the (mostly) true story of how a case of hemorrhagic fever spread as well as the extensive process involved in finding and implementing cures. Growing up with two parents involved in medicine left me assuming that I knew the expanse of every field. The areas of pathology and epidemiology, however were completely new to me. The realization that the monstrous disease was based on something real was a wake up call of sorts that inspired me to delve into epidemiology and public health. I had never truly felt passionate or even remotely confident about my plans for the future, but this new knowledge gave me a foundation to build on. Of course the book was entertaining

Climate change is defined as long-term transformation in weather conditions behavior in excess of durations which cover anything from many years to millions of many years. The changes can be modifications in environment measured by change in temperature, precipitation, sea level, humidity and wind pattern. Human activities are the major cause of climate change as these are increasing the amount of greenhouse gases which results into rise in temperature, evaporation etcetera in many cities of the world. One of the cities of Australia, Brisbane, is especially vulnerable against atmosphere change due to its increasing population and waterfront area. Human settlements, biological communities and commercial enterprises all face dangers from compelling

Heat waves are often overlooked as an important natural disaster because they do not have the immediate effects of other disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes. However, over the last fifteen years, more people have died from heat waves compared to all other weather-related disasters combined (Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, 2005). Heat waves are more dangerous in cities like Chicago because the buildings and paved roads stores heat and it dissipate very slowly (Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, 2005). The Chicago heat wave resulted in temperatures of 106 degrees and the actual heat index was almost 126 degrees. As a result of these high temperatures and humidity, over 700 people were left dead in

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges that we currently face. With the ever-increasing uptake in the usage of fossil fuels, and getting ever closer to reaching peak oil, it is becoming of increasing importance to reduce our consumption of these non-renewable resources. The United Kingdom (UK) has been set a target to reduce its CO2 output level by at least 80% by 2050, in comparison to a 1990 baseline (Climate change act (2008)). This is a great challenge set by the European Union (EU) that UK is legally obliged to commit to. A large proportion of this CO2 output can be attributed to the UK’s housing sector, which currently accounts for 27% of the UK’s total CO2 level (Davies, P. and Osmani, M. (2011)). Clearly,

This would be an interesting question because with the statistics related to this, we could then extrapolate on where the wind is coming from and the composition of green house gases in the areas where the wind is coming from. Once origin of the green house gases is established I could hypothesize on the industrial or natural reasons for such differences. The addition of surface temperature would allow us to see how the proportions of green house gases effect temperature. Such a project could lead to identifying model cities or destructive cities to our goal of minimizing the effects of climate

Whereas, Singapore is obtaining winds from the south equatorial current carrying warmer temperatures towards the equator. Another climate control is land and water contrast. “A land surface heats up more rapidly and reaches a higher temperature than a comparable water surface subject to the same isolation. In essence, a thin layer of land is heated to relatively high temperatures, whereas a thick layer of water is heated more slowly to moderate temperatures” (Hess, 2011, p. 82).

One of the novel’s greatest faults and strengths lies not specifically in its content, but in how the content is laid out for the reader. He starts off the novel with what is likely his own imaginings of the details surrounding the death of Charles Monet, our Marburg patient zero. Given the circumstances of Monet’s death, there was no way that he could have given, in such great detail as Preston provides, a recounting of the events that took place in days prior to his arrival at Nairobi Hospital. With that obvious fact in mind, these first few chapters must be taken with a grain of salt. They are wonderfully descriptive, Preston leaves nothing to the imagination, and are probably some of the best chapters in the whole book for that reason. Yet descriptive as they may be, they obviously serve another purpose: to incite fear in the reader.

The weather gets the cold element from the mountains surrounding the area and the warmness from the currents of Pacific ocrean. However, the city is known to be one of the warmest cities of the country. Though being famous for rains, the city is ranked as 9th in the country for rain. (City of Vancouver - Weather)

In Calgary, the climate is very humid and it averages daily temperatures of 16.5 °C in July to −6.8 °C in December. In contrast, Makkah has a hot desert climate and it maintains its warm temperature in winter, which can range from 18 °C at night to 30 °C in the day. Summer temperatures are extremely fiery, often being over 40 °C during the day and 30 °C at night. Climate, affects things such as clothing, sports, cars, and houses. In Calgary, the climate fluctuates quite a lot, but around summer time most people will be wearing t-shirts and shorts whereas in winter they would be covered up with a warm jacket, mittens, toque, a scarf. Furthermore, in summer the soccer season would be played outdoors but because of the climate in winter we have indoor soccer season. In addition to that, the cars that are on the streets during the summer are usually sedans, but in winter people are driving huge trucks. Also, in Calgary the houses are very insulated because it can get very cold outside in winter, since the houses are insulated the people don’t feel how cold it is outside at all. In addition to that, the houses have double garage doors showing the significance of a car. On the other hand, in Makkah, the temperatures remain warm so people usually wear quite thin clothing. Sports in Makkah would be played outside because there is no need to go inside. The cars that are on the roads in Makkah stay the same because there is no change in the seasons besides the temperature. The houses in Makkah are concrete and not insulated because it is already warm. In summary, we can agree that climate affects how people

To be precise, there are two kinds of human's sources such as heat and gases emission that produce from the buildings and the greenhouses and heat loses that come from the power plants and factories. The buildings and greenhouses emissions are heat and gases emit from any buildings and houses activities like air-conditioning, using gas for houses and buildings activities, the radiations that come from the electrical equipment. All these reasons have largely impact on earth's weather due to increasing the proportion of Carbon dioxide (Co2). Many researchers may argue that the building and the greenhouses emissions get the great benefits to earth's weather and environment because they believe that these emissions have small weight in earth's atmosphere and keep the balance of weather in earth (1). The air-conditioning systems in summer absorb hot air from the buildings and the greenhouses and reject it directly to atmosphere. Moreover, during the winter seasons, many people use wood, fuel, and electrical power for heating. Because of many reasons, the buildings and the greenhouses lose large amount of heat energy by the walls, the windows, and the ventilation systems. In fact, the effects of air-conditioning systems represent (18%) of the total amounts of Carbon dioxide (Co2) emissions come from the