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    One of the most challenging global issue facing today’s society is climate change, it is affecting all regions across the globe, with some areas experiencing extreme weather events and heavy rainfall, whereas other regions are hit with droughts and heat waves. Climate change can be defined as a “large-scale, long-term shift in the planet's weather patterns or average temperatures.” (metoffice). Consequently, a range of challenges are occurring to not only human settlements, but more importantly to

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    population growth. Factors like, globalization and urbanization can be contributed to such changes. However, climate change is one of the unpleasant surprise that can be credited to the degraded acts towards the environment due to deforestation, burning of fossils and fuels, industrialization and many more. Vector borne diseases, are one of the most known diseases that can be credited to climate change. Change in the environmental patterns introduce human diseases that could have not been a problem

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    The climate and weather are something that the Energy Sector and its partner cannot change or avoid. At the moment, “energy production and distribution systems are designed to respond to weather variability” for short interval such as day to day, week to week, month to month, or year to year (U.S. Department of Homeland, n.d.-r). Any large-scale disaster may cripple the short-term supply of energy as it stands for the current situation (U.S. Department of Homeland, n.d.-r). To remedy such an issue

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    projected areas to assess future coastal submersion of New York City. New York is very susceptible to the impacts of sea-level rise, including storm surge and coastal flooding. Many scientist deem man-made creations the cause of changes to the world’s climate and are promoting dramatic swings in the weather, such as, more floods, hurricanes, droughts, hurricanes, and heat waves. Rising sea levels are anticipated to worsen storm flooding in low-lying coastal areas, and permanently engulf some parts. Receding

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    Climate change is one of the most important challenges of humankind in this century. The ability to adapt, mitigate and reduce carbon emissions will be decisive to preserve the world for future generations. The last IPCC report has provided more evidence regarding the rise in temperature and sea level. Apparently, additional 2°C above the pre-industrial average temperature levels is unavoidable, and it will continue at that level due the accumulation of gases in the atmosphere (Solomon 2009). Climate

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    rainfall, other elements of the weather, toward longer-term trends that can affect the entire Earth, se long-term (typically 30-year) weather trends are called "climate." It is therefore important understand the difference, as well as the relation, between "weather" and "climate." An example of the relationship between weather and climate is El Nino, which is weather with local, short-term consequences as well as with global, long-term importance. In the ort-term. El Nino can bring a dry summer for

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    Natalie Sesco English 1 Uri Hertz May 17, 2012 Environmental Issues 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

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    Climate change and its effects The most significant event to indicate climate change is the melting of the polar ice caps. The area of sea covered by the Arctic ice at the North Pole has shrunk by 10% in recent decades, and the thickness of the ice above the water has decreased by about 40%. On the other side of the world, the ice sheet above the Antarctic continent has become unstable. Glaciers are retreating all around the world. Since 1979, glaciers in the European Alps have lost about one-fifth

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    Human activity that impacts climate change is the main argument in the debate regarding the reality of climate change. A consensus agreed upon many scientists is that Earth’s climate is changing tremendously and humans are to blame for the change. The scientific evidence supporting these claims has grown and become reinforced in the past fifty years due to the arrival of computer models, ice core samples, and years of research to the causation of climate change (Rich and Warhol 2). “According

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    Introduction The earth 's climate is usually outlined because the average weather over a protracted amount of your time. An area or region 's climate is set by each natural and phylogenies (human-made) factors. The fast increase of population of the planet is because the energy needs of individuals are increasing bit by bit. The most a part of the planet naturally and typically folks burnt fossil fuels adore (coal, oil, inexperienced homes gasses) to satisfy their energy desires that unleash greenhouse

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