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    Global warming, also referred to as climate change, has become a major political topic within recent years. Essentially, a controversial debate exists regarding the causes and subsequent impacts of global warming. Nevertheless, the current consensus by most experts is that evidence unequivocally supports the measurable impacts of global warming, such as increased temperatures, melting ice, etc. A literature review will be conducted in order to present scientific evidence that illustrates the impacts

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    Humans Are Influencing Climate Change The issue is simple and rather obvious; climate change is real and a problem. With a changing climate comes rising sea levels, hotter days, and stronger and wilder storms, and long painful droughts. What most people can’t seem to agree on is whether or not human activity is playing some role in it. From media outlets to internet forums, the debate is being fought on all fronts. Most of these arguments, however, are just personal opinions and poorly-made observations

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    The study of the distribution of weather over periods of time is called climate change. This period of time may be more than a decade of length. To perform studies on climate change is very important for increasing yields and for insuring the crops for the farmers of the modern day. These studies were used historically too and have helped the agricultural community to grow crops over the same land decade after decade. At present the earth’s average temperature continues to increase. One reason for

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    The Drastic Effects of Climate Change In this paper, some of the growing threats to the environment and ideas of achieving sustainability is introduced. The threat arising from human induced climate change, summarizing its scientific basis and the most significant impacts is broken down into detail. The information proceeds to outline the action that is necessary to halt climate change especially in the energy sector. Overall, the information provided puts emphasis on the moral imperative for action

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    The Change Is Everything: Capitalism Vs the climate Naomi Klein 's "This Changes Everything" is an insightful detail about the discussion of an approach and method for climate change. Klein has mentioned a lot of importance issue demanding the climate change. The factors affecting the climate changes are the social force, which has a hand in contributing to the problem. It is about an analysis of contemporary capitalism and its hugely impact that has left on the environment. The book divided into

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    This essay and its contents is designed to define and discuss the concept of my position on the following statement: “Human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels. It also answers inquiries of; is it a major contributor to climate change? Do I agree or disagree? From my research and readings, I‘ve concluded that, the foremost effect that burning fossil fuels has on our environment is the greenhouse effect, also known as global warming. Carbon dioxide, which is also known as greenhouse

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    The Impact Climate Change Has on Planet Earth In the last few decades, climate change has been a significant scientific and economic controversy for major debates. Some scientists believe they have already given enough research and proof to justify climate change as being a real, prevalent issue while other scientist and politicians thoughtlessly reject the theory altogether. This problem is very important for a few reasons; climate change could potentially define the fate of the entire human race

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    Global climate change, something that most people in the world are not taking as seriously as they should. Many people believe that climate change is a phenomenon; a conspiracy theory to engage people into spending more money. When the world became industrialized, we lost our way on protecting our Earth, our only planet. Industrialization is why our environment is in critical condition. Advocating and government officials are necessary for a decrease of Greenhouse Gas emissions into our atmosphere

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    The oceans is an essential component to surviving, but it’s also one of the most affected by the climate change. According to the EPA website, the greenhouse gases emitted trap heat and this heat is increasing the temperature of the oceans around the world. Over the past three decades, the surfaces temperature of oceans has been increase higher than any other time period. The oceans are a vital part of surviving; it provides 50 percent of all the oxygen in the world. However, with surface temperature

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    extreme climatic events are increasing more severe and frequent due to the climate change. The climate change is a global scale, the mean annual surface temperature has increased over the past century by 0.6°C (IPCC, 2007).Climate models and theoretical arguments further indicate that extreme precipitation events will continue to increase with rises in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations (Min et al., 2011). Climate change will have significant impacts on precipitation patterns, overall increase in

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