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    Persuasive Climate Change

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    Climate change is a big issue now a day and it is becoming increasingly more dangerous to our world. Climate change affects almost every aspect of our life whether we realize it or not. Over the past few years, we as a planet has suffered many devastating natural disasters struggles with our health, and overall a struggle to adapt to our ever-changing environment. Many people know that climate change is an issue, but they fail to realize what the effects are of climate change. This is something that

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    Sheilah Otieno Professor Hax T-Sem 102-65 April 4, 2017 Reflection paper This paper will reflect on the readings that we have done thus far, as well as ask the important question of how our daily lives, the things that we buy, use, and throw away, are all intertwined and built to impact climate change. Readings such as: Poverty, the environment, and the market, Tangled routes, the story of stuff, and This Changes everything gave us a glimpse into how humans are the primary contributors to climate

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    prominent natural disasters that this area experiences. Due to the fact that these natural disasters occur so frequently, mitigation plans have been implemented to decrease the potential damage. In order to efficiently detect oncoming disasters, weather radars have been utilized to track high precipitation that may lead to floods. In addition, hurricane experts study the past hurricanes that passed through to get a better understanding of when a hurricane may strike. Other strategies to track future

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    Black Ice Collapse

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    During the late fall and sometimes into the first few weeks of winter, there is little appreciable snowfall except for a few occasional snow flakes. However, this time of year is quite hazardous and possibly more so than winter. The reasons: the temperatures sometimes dip below freezing, the roads are untreated, and motorists are still driving as though it were summer. These three factors can add up to unexpected accidents and even pileups. Here are two typical accident situations: Black Ice Formation

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    The Anemometer by; Chase Hess People in 1709 also said that wolfius invented it. It was originally driven The anemometer is a very big part of science. Meteorologists have been using anemometers for about 550 years.550 years ago they did not use the term meteorologists They just said scientists and that was it. It is important because it is used to tell wind speed and jet stream. (anemometer) The anemometer has changed not that much in all of that time. But there is over

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    Also, the modeling tool tells us that storms 2 and 3 had all the same factors ( water vapor, troposphere temperature and surface water) but, the parcel temperature, was higher in storm 3 which caused it to have more rain. Lastly, the reason why the weather has been acting up is the new lake. The lake is causing more evaporation (the process by which a liquid changes into a gas). This is important because the more evaporation there is, the more condensation (the process by which a gas changes into a

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    A climate change a change in global or regional climate radiation diagram , in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th hundred onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuel .. climate change has been found in many countries and regions like Uganda, The Alps, Australia and many more. but our focus here is on the climate change in Australia. Climate alteration has been a major issue in Commonwealth of Australia

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    Effects of climate change The Murray–Darling Basin is facing the challenge of climate change, including estimated increases in temperatures and evaporation, and a reduce in precipitation and runoffs to the rivers and wetlands, particularly in the southern MDB (Dunlop and Brown 2008). A projected model that makes a comparison between the historical climate change and the 2030 expected figures conducted by The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) suggests that, water

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    To build a fire is a short story written by Jack London. It is a story about an individual’s choice. The main character’s self-centeredness overcomes him, as he tries to survive the wintery weather in his travel in the Yukon Trail. He made a choice of ignoring the weather warnings, which evidenced danger in his journey. There were warnings like the absence of fellow travelers due to the cold season, but his egoism made him still embark on the journey alone, despite the warnings. The protagonist’s

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    All that needs to be done for a person to see that climate change is upon the world is to look outside. The seasons that used to be defined by their drastically different weather have started to blend into a year-long battle for hot and cold, along with unusual rainfall during typically dry spells. Climate change is the change in global or regional climate patterns. Global warming is the idea that the world is being heated by a few degrees every year brought on by an increase in carbon dioxide levels

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