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It seems that climate change may be partly responsible for California’s crippling drought. A new study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , found that global warming, caused by human emissions, has intensified the drought during the period between 2012 and 2014 by 8 to 27 percent. The study also suggests an increased likelihood of future droughts due to climate change, posing a serious threat to California’s farming and agricultural industries. A Natural Disaster, Made Worse

Due to recent increases in the Earths average temperature Climate Change has become a highly discussed topic in society. This has caused individuals to solely focus on the increasing temperatures of today and completely neglect temperatures that the planet has experienced in the past. When looking at paleoclimate data one can clearly see the fluxuations in the ice age cycles (periods of cooling and warming). Ice age cycles are amplified by positive feedback systems that make the earth cooler or

It takes 1 tree to make 8,333 sheets of paper. So, if the average novel is about 1,000 pages, it take 1 tree to make 8 books. Trees are a crucial factor not only because they produce paper, lumber, and chewing gum, but because but because they serve an important role in the carbon cycle. There are many consequences of getting rid of trees. The lifeless soil and filthy air are few of many possible outcomes of getting rid of trees. Without trees, the air would be unsuitable for breathing and humans

Observerved impacts of climate change With the world’s fifth largest , both by geographical area and by population (now exceeding 190 million people), Brazil emitted 14.5 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq) per capita in 2004 (Climate Action Tracker Partners, 2015). Brazil has a large share in CO2 emission affecting climate change on a global scale. Brazil has also had its share of impacts due to climate changes. From 1960 to 2010, northern, eastern and southern regions have had increased

The reason inuits have such a strong bond is because they rely on each other to provide food, water, clothes, but also because they care about one another and are family. An unbreakable force.The video says, “We the inuits, are part of one big family.”(28.35)They love and care about everyone and and just like us, their family is the strongest bond they have.The inuits rely on each other to provide and love each other. The Inuit would need to know the natural patterns of the arctic wildlife because

With global temperatures increasing simultaneously with increased liberation of cross-border trade, one cannot help but question whether the two are interrelated. Phillipe LeGrain, author of ‘Open World: The Truth about Globalization’, states that the world consumes roughly 70 percent more energy than three decades ago with consumption steadily increasing. Critics of globalization assert that government reduction of trade barriers are the main culprit behind global warming, at first glance this may

The Chemours Company, an off shoot company of du Pont, currently owns the trademark Freon, which it uses in its halocarbon products. Freon exist as a slightly toxic gas or liquid which is non flammable. Freon is a brand name which encompasses a number of chlorofluorocarbons. However, a number of chlorofluorocarbons exist outside of the Freon brand such as R22. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) including Freon have been primarily used as an aerosol propellant in the past, and now primarily refrigerant. The

Aim: To implement certain planetary boundaries which cannot be transgressed which can help/stop the consequences of human actions on the environment. There is an urgent need for laws (boundaries) to be implemented to protect the environment to ensure the continuality of a safe operating space for humanity. Earth has been in a period of stability, known as the Holocene era for the last 10,000 years. This period saw the development of humans and the ability to thrive and develop into the society

Climate change is a global issue that is under an endless debate for its causes. The increase in the global mean annual surface air temperature in the previous century by 0.75C (IPCC 2007) in coincidence with the excess of the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere from 289 to 353 ppm (Lean et al. 1995) by burning fossil fuels support the human-induced hypothesis of climate change. On the other hand, the protestors of the natural origin of climate change build their argument on the

How can Andrew Bolt point to a graph as showing a "pause" in global warming, when it unequivocally shows the opposite? He's a propagandist of the highest order. It’s official: Andrew Bolt has lost the plot. On his blog on Wednesday, he presented the following graph (using UAH satellite data) as evidence of how “the pause in global warming continues”. No intelligent person could look at these figures and see anything but a trend towards global warming. Before 1997, world temperatures were predominantly