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Activity 1: An opinionative essay on climate change – a truth or just an inconvenience? Theme The students will research and write an opinionative essay presenting a point of view about climate change. Key learning/Subject areas/Year level(s) ▪ Personal Development ▪ Health and Physical Education ▪ Science ▪ Studies of Society and the Environment ▪ English/Literacy ▪ Personal Learning (Detailed curriculum links are included at the end of this document) Possible
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Climate Change Versus The Kudzu Problem: How Kudzu Will Survive The Climate Change Apocalypse December 7‚ 2012 Abstract The kudzu problem‚ also known as the invasive species Pueraria montana var. lobata‚ currently rages across the Southern US‚ drowning out the native vegetation and covering anything in its way‚ including human architecture. However‚ the kudzu faces the same upcoming trials as we do—climate change. Will the kudzu‚ having already stood the test of migration‚ handle the coming
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Climate Change Regulations SCI/362 August 09‚ 2012 Climate Change Regulations Anthropogenic climate change is an establishment phenomenon. Within the scientific community‚ the question is no longer whether climate change will occur‚ but at what rate‚ with what effects‚ and what‚ if anything‚ we can do about it. The biggest culprit in climate change is an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide‚ which is generated primarily through burning fossils. Earth’s average temperature is based on
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Ori Malul Climate Change Climate change means any significant‚ long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region‚ or even the whole world over a significant period of time. It describes changes in the state of the atmosphere over time‚ scales ranging from decades to millions of years. Data shows that earth’s average air temperature has changed by about 1.4 degrees fahrenheit (Citation). Climate change is about abnormal variations into the climate‚ and the effects
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famously quoted‚ “The art of prophecy is very difficult- especially with respect to the future”. Simon Caney describes how the earth’s climate is enduring profound changes which to a large extent are caused by human activity‚ resulting in undesirable effects on people’s standard of living especially the weak and vulnerable. (Caney‚ 2010) Scientists claim that climate change heralds unpredictable weather events like raised sea levels‚ that causes floods and in some cases greater risks of ‘storm-surges’
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The earth has endured periodical cycles of warming and cooling‚ but how much of the modern climate change is in fact natural? In the last 650‚000 years‚ the earth has gone through several major changes in temperature‚ caused by an array of natural effects. Many things contribute to the change in temperature‚ including the earth’s orbital change‚ the slight lean of the earth’s axis‚ and the natural change in atmospheric composition. Although‚ since the industrial revolution in the late 1800’s‚ the
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TRINITY COLLEGE L6 SCIENCE GEOGRAPHY CLIMATE CHANGE: NATURE OR NEGLIGENCE The climate of our world is changing‚ but why? There is a great debate going on in the scientific community on whether our current climate change crisis is a natural occurrence over millions of years – as what has happened on the planet of Mars – or this natural process is being accelerated by man’s negligence. But first we must establish what is climate change? Climate Change is a long-term shift in the statistics of
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Climate Changes The world’s climate is not so good‚ in the article wrote by Thomas L. Friedman “Stuff Happens to the Environment‚ like Climate Change” (The New York Times) where it is explained how climate change is taken differently by all the large industrial economies‚ including United states. Friedman’s claim is that some candidates running for presidents do not pay attention to the severity of these problems and why voters should not vote for them‚ which is a good start to address climate problems
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Consensus on Climate Change” written by Naomi Oreskes is intended to let the readers understand that there is a consensus that anthropogenic global climate change is occurring. In her essay‚ Oreskes states that although some groups claim there is not substantial evidence that Earth’s climate is being affected by human activities‚ overall‚ the scientific community is in agreement that evidence is quite clear. “IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth’s climate is being
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