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    The Threat of Climate Change “Look at climate change; don’t put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources” - Hillary Clinton Climate change limits the opportunities that future generations have, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. It is our duty to change how people treat and use the earth, educate, and get involved in our communities. By being a part of a community ​it can have a huge impact on improving the lives of the vulnerable populations

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    coasts, habitats and an abundance of land, climate change can destroy all of this. Climate change effects not just sea level rises but also weather patterns, global temperature, water quality and ecosystems. The threat of rising sea level is big *gestures towards power point* this image shows the Gold Coast when sea levels rise less than a meter; most of Carrara is underwater, not to mention all the areas where water might flow *power point gesture*. The climate also affect the oceans acidity and temperature

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    Protection Agency has come up with what they call the climate change plan. The plan consists of reducing greenhouse gases. The way to do this would be to shut down all coal powered power plants across the country, but doing this would result in many problems. It is said that energy bills will rise, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and in the end the climate change plan will really have no impact on global warming. The EPA climate plan requires states to shift from coal-power to cut carbon

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    Simran Mann Biology 3000 Negative Position Paper #2 Climate Change Climate can be defined as the mean of temperature, wind patterns, quantity of water vapor in the air, which is humidity and rainfall that has continued from the past up until the present. The cause of climate change was expected to be through natural phenomena’s, for example volcanic eruptions and solar activity. However, the change in climate is not due to the natural effects but solely through human activities. From generation

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    Climate change is one of the biggest concerns of all nations across the globe. Climate shift refers to changes in patterns of weather which can be indicated through global warming, natural disasters and rises in sea level. There is a group of people, climate change skeptics, who argue that climate change is not the result of human activity, meaning that it is naturally occurring. According to World Meteorological Organization, natural factors refer to internal factors, which are the interactions

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    Political Issues on Climate Change In today’s political climate, individuals are more polarized than ever over climate issues. We don’t see much agreement that for whatever the reason, climate change is affecting the Earth. The issues over climate change has hit the media and the environmentalist has done a lot to shined light on the issue as well but, a lot of the citizens still believe that global warming isn’t real. If we are not educated about the issues regarding a sustainable living and

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    The Drastic Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change Air pollution and climate change have an extensive backing from environmentalists and people in general who care about the effects that has on earth. Air pollution is the world 's biggest environmental health risk, with some of the worst problems in developing nations such as China and India. Air pollution is a vast problem which can be fixed, although it will take time. Air pollution kills 3.3 million people a year, including 55,000 in the

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    are using those resources. Over the past few years, with the help of new technology, we can track the climate changes and were able to link them to some of the natural disasters that has happened. In a nutshell; we are cooking up our earth. Not only us, but the beings that do not use coal for generating electricity or gasoline for transportation are also becoming the victims of the climate change. Oceans act as one of the major sinks to store the anthropogenic carbon dioxide that’s left out in the

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    Climate change is a highly talked about topic. Scientist have been studying this for many and many years. There are facts that say climate change occurs from natural things like volcanic eruptions, solar activity, and orbital change. Scientist say that its caused by human activities. This is being sent to you because you need to know that climate change is happening from humans more then other things like natural processes. You have inspired me to try my hardest to get to the top and be my best because

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    In the article “What they don’t tell you about climate change,” authors discuss the issues related to climate change while describing key suggestions to help combat the issue. As stated in the text, there has been a global goal to keep global temperature “well below 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times.” This goal had not been met, while carbon dioxide emissions are simply not enough to “limit the rise in temperature successfully.” Moreover, the authors have claimed that “Stopping the flow of carbon

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