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    For centuries the United States Military has addressed the many challenges of national security, from fighting for the foundation of America in the Revolutionary war, to the containment of terrorism and Islamic extremism in recent years, but now global climate change presents a new and very different type of challenge to national security. The stability of the world’s climate that has enabled human civilizations to grow and flourish over the last five thousand years is changing, causing environmental

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    For centuries the United States Military has addressed the many challenges of national security, from fighting for the foundation of America in the Revolutionary war, to the containment of terrorism and Islamic extremism in recent years, but now global climate change presents a new and very different type of challenge to national security. The stability of the world’s climate that has enabled human civilizations to grow and flourish over the last five thousand years is changing, causing environmental

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    species survival, whether there will be another mass extinction like the one 65 million years ago. The question is “How might the breaking up and melting of continental ice in Greenland and the Antarctic affect Canada’s coastline?”. In the following sections, we have gathered an abundance of information from a variety of sources from which we will discuss, and analyze. We will find out how this data can help us understand the effect of melting glaciers on Canada’s coastline, as well as how and what

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    the world, as well as the human race. All of the four previously mentioned problems can cause environmental destruction. For example; pollution causes global warming, and the warmer weather from global warming causes the glaciers and polar ice caps to melt. The melting of the glaciers and polar ice caps make the water levels rise, and when the water level rises, people 's homes get destroyed, so then more people have to move inland. With more people inland, there becomes more overpopulation, pollution

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    animals and species, human life is trying to contain and control the inhabitants of the earth but human life cannot control and manage something that they don’t know exists or how do they know something hasn’t gone extinct. How can human’s sustainably balance the life of nature without any records? Which brings the question of how can we study if they are going extinct? 233

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    environment boosts due to global warming, the ability for the ocean to hold carbon dioxide directly determines the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. Since carbon dioxide itself allows to absorb great quantity of infrared radiation, so glaciers, ice caps and snow on the top of the mountain will melt due to greenhouse effect. Progressively in level of water negatively affect the human life because countries like Jordan, Israel, and Syria which are all 200-400 metres below the sea level

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    In the UK alone, 10% of total employment is in the tourism sector. People who have employment within the UK usually earn a high salary compared to the rest of the world and people consider that they must strike a work/life balance and hence spend more time on holidays. The UK has seen a greater increase in car ownership since the 1950’s when in 1951 only 1 in 20 families’s had a car, by 1996 this figure had risen to 71% of all UK families owned at least 1 vehicle

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    The Myth Of Global Warming

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    There are many facts to prove the people are not noticing the harm we are undertaking towards earth. The earth has many changes that have occurred in the past and some that are going to transpire in the future. One could notice changes such as “Glaciers melting, plants

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    Nuclear plants; even though they create a power source for our daily life’s, it also produces mass pollution that affects our climate. Climate change can be caused by many different things for example, the differences of solar radiations that’s received by the earth, volcanic eruptions, plate tectonics and human activities have also influenced climate

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    The earth temperature depends on the balance between energy entering and existing. When solar radiation from the sun is absorbed by the earth atmosphere, the earth warms up. Some get reflected back into space. The land and ocean than absorbs the energy and radiates in the form of heat back into space. But some of the heat is trapped by Green House Gases (GHG) enable earth to keep warm to sustain life.Human activities such as burning fossils fuel, farming, deforestation, industry, waste breakdown

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