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    Environmental change on the planet can be caused by different exercises. At the point when environmental change happens; temperatures can expand a significantly. At the point when temperature rises, a wide range of changes can happen on Earth. For instance, it can bring about more surges, dry seasons, or extraordinary rain, and in addition more continuous and extreme warmth waves. Seas and icy masses have additionally encountered a few changes: seas are warming and ending up more acidic, ice sheets

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    Throughout the history of the earth, there has been a continual change in the climate of the earth. According to Nasa, there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat within the last 650,000 years. One of them being the last ice age that abruptly ended about 7,000 years ago which marked the beginning of modern civilization. The changes in climate are normally caused by slight variations in the orbit of the Earth around the Sun which causes there be an increase or decrease in the amount

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    environmentalists is going to come and try to convince us that we are all doomed because of the poles melting. Instead, we should listen to God’s word and believe that his word is true. According to the dictionary, climate change is the change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular, a change clear from the mid to late 20th

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    Human Activity and Climate Change Natural atmospheric greenhouse gases, which predominantly consist of water vapor, and minor parts of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane, are vital in balancing Earth’s surface temperature to a life-sustaining average. Indubitable, global warming and cooling has occurred naturally; however, data indicates that the sun’s energy distribution has virtually been constant within the past century. Furthermore, evidence indicates that the balance in greenhouse gases

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    Introduction “Climate change will force millions of people to flee their homes over the coming century” (Docherty & Giannini et al. 2010). Global climate change has become an undeniable and unavoidable reality. In its latest assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international body that provides the most comprehensive reports dealing with the science of climate change, has established that warming of the climate system is ‘unequivocal’. Additionally, it concludes that

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    neutrality: one solution to climate change Introduction Climate change is a major concern of the global community. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4) stated that global surface temperature have increased by about 0.74 ◦C between 1906 and 2005. Extreme high temperature events have become more frequent and more intense in recent years in some regions. Many organization and individuals are highly concerned about climate change and want to make their

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    Research on Climate Change 1. Weather and Climate are two completely different earth behaviors. Weather is an occurrence that happens to the atmosphere over a short period of time. For example in Indiana it may be really warm one day, but the next day it could snow. Climate is an occurrence to the atmosphere that happens over a long period of time. For example it has been show that over long periods of time the earth seems to be warming more and more each year. 2. According to my research, many

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    personal effort and voluntary behavior. The biggest challenge emerging in 21st century is of the Climate change. Climate change poses a threat to our future generations because it has a devastating effect on air, water,shelter and security. The leading cause of climate change has been internationally recognized as the accumulation of green house gases by the First Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)Report

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    responsible for global contamination/global warming. A slight change on temperature can cause a big change on the earth’s weather and environment (i.e. ice caps melting or long droughts in California). According to Pete Spotts in Climate Change: Scientists Now 95 Percent Certain We Are Mostly to Blame, “Since 1951, Earth 's climate has warmed by about 0.6 degrees Celsius, and researchers assessing … the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are 95 percent certain that more than half of the

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    Climate Change: Human Activity is to Blame Climate change is an extremely serious threat because it affects every living thing on the planet. Climate change can have destructive effects like causing extreme weather events, ocean acidification and increasing global temperature. These are only few of the effects of climate change and if it continues can even cause the extinction of humanity. Much of the scientific community agrees that our use of fossil fuels is the cause and our continued dependency

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