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    to Climate Change are constant, not ceasing or slowing down. Most anything in the modern society has made a contribution, whether it be the technology being used or the cars being driven. Climate Change is the changing of global weather and temperatures at an abnormal rate --- that many choose to ignore, proceeding with their everyday activity. Meanwhile, on a global scale, the rate of these changes is detrimental to life on earth. NASA explicitly addresses that these fluctuations of climate are

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    For the last decade there has been a topic that everybody has either something positive or negative to talk about, and that would be climate change. It is something where people are trying to figure out the main reason that is causing climate change. One of the main reasons that people believe is the problem are big corporations. Some of the worst companies from an article by business insider are Archer Daniels Midland, AES, PPL, Progress Energy, Duke Energy, FirstEnergy, Southern, Bunge, American

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    called “Love and Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed and What it Means for our Future”. The lecture was given by Dale Jamieson. He teaches at New York University and has been funded by many big environmental agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency. In his lecture, Dr. Jamieson wanted to answer the question, “Why have we failed to take evidence-based action when it comes to climate change?”. It is especially astonishing the stance that some of our country’s

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    Climate Change Is False

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    Due to various theories, many people believe climate change is false, yet, there is a wide range of evidence proving this worldwide issue is in fact true. To begin, the temperature of nearly every body of water on Earth has increased. In addition, the average amount of precipitation has decreased in the northern hemisphere. Besides this, many animals are being impacted by climate change. First of all, the world’s oceans have increased in temperature. According to www.nasa.gov, the “Ocean (has warmed

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    English 1A December 1, 2017 Climate Change Introduction As climate change and global warming remain some of the most debated topics in the contemporary social and political spheres, there is need to establish the leading causes of these global phenomena. To date, climate change scientists have differed on the causes of climate change, with one faction holding that climate change is natural and another one arguing that human activities are the primary drivers of climate change (Crowley, 286). More recent

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    For climate change day, I went up to the capital to listen to Governor Dayton speak about the topic, and what is in the future. Governor Dayton talked about the goal for Minnesota to become 50% renewable energy by the year 2030. People listening had a chance to ask him questions, and one of the questions that really made everyone agree with was, “If Minnesota eventually wants to become 100% clean energy, why are we still allowing oil companies on our land to pump oil, the shipment of oil products

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    Introduction The world continuously faces a variety of threats every day, from natural disasters to terrorist, but one threat that society predominately contributes to all on their own, is climate change. There are many feasible explanations for the global threat of climate change. These explanations include but are not limited to, the act of deforestation to the rainforest and other trees, green house gas emissions, and sulfate aerosol, which cause poor air quality. It is reported that nearly

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    Katherine Suarez Bio. Professor Agostino November, 29 2016 Global Warming/ Climate Change Global warming or also known as climate change refers to the increase heating of Earth 's surface, oceans and atmosphere and its effects. It is unknown who was the first person to point out the term “Global Warming”, but since the late nineteenth century geologist started talking about that increasing carbon dioxide by combustion, which could be the cause of rising temperature. But if talk about 55 million

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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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    Climate Change Sense 1998, the Earth has produced over 2.5 billion atomic bombs worth of heat because of an event that can occur called climate change. Climate change is the change of global or regional climate patterns that usually occur because of the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although many people disagree about climate changes existence it can be proven as a reality when the statistics are shown on how climate change can begin, how climate change is affecting our daily lives

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