I. WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING? Global warming is the gradual increase of the Earth’s average measured temperature overtime. This measured average temperature is derived from both the near-surface air as well as ocean waters. Scientists began measuring this temperature beginning in the mid-20th century and have continued to monitor fluctuations and deviations in measurements ever since. The average global temperature increased approximately 1.33°F over the past 100 years ending in 2005. This led the
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Global Warming In 1995 a popular science fiction movie called Water World‚ starring Kevin Costner came out. The plot of this movie is based on a distant future where the polar ice caps have melted‚ and the sea level has risen hundreds of meters covering all the continents and humanity is forced to live on abandoned ships and floating fortresses scavenging for supplies. Of course‚ this was only a science fiction movie‚ and in 1995 the idea of the polar ice caps melting was too far for society to
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Global Warming “The Earth ’s climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650‚000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat‚ with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7‚000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.” (NASA.GOV) Going through the history in our planet’s
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Abstract This report studies secondary research to discover the effects of global warming and the consequences it has on sea levels‚ ice melting and the polar bear. Websites researched were NASA‚ ICUN‚ National Geographic‚ BBC News‚ The Independent‚ IPCC‚ Arctic Council‚ National Resources Defense Council‚ UN News and D.V.D. called ‘An Inconvenient‚’ truth. Evidence researched supports the conclusion that scientists believe global temperatures have been rising and that human activity is a significant
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THE EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING Introduction One of the most agent controversial topics that are discussed in the world is global warming. Global warming and its effects are real and various scientists unlock the past mysteries and analyze today’s activities‚ they issue warnings that the future generations will be in jeopardy. Overwhelming evidence that the world’s climate is changing due to various human activities exists. Since the industrial revolution‚ various human activities such as agriculture
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Global Warming Throughout the years‚ many topics have been brought to attention and have caused many controversial discussions. Being one of them‚ Global Warming has been the number one controversial topic for decades. One main subtopic talked about has been the different types of “effects” Global Warming has caused on this Earth to go through. One effect is Greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years
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Global Warming Essay July 11‚ 2011 Sci 256 Many people today believe that global warming is still nothing but a theory discussed by some weird scientists because they just want to scare us. But in reality there are many climate issues happening and people are very confused on what is really happening. Some theories of global warming are the “Green house effect”‚ changing sun‚ ash from volcano and natural variations in climate such as El Niño. Most scientists agree that global warming is caused
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(January/February 1999 issue). Also available as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report No. 42580. Climate for Change An Actuarial Perspective on Global Warming and its Potential Impact on Insurers By Andy Peara and Evan Mills As the debate over global warming rages‚ actuaries may be able to play a greater role in evaluating the merits of the opposing views and contributing to climate research itself. Since hurricanes Hugo and Andrew‚ insurance companies have had to fundamentally rethink
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Global warming From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For scientific and political disputes‚ see Global warming controversy‚ Scientific opinion on climate change and Public opinion on climate change. For past climate change see Paleoclimatology and Geologic temperature record. For the Sonny Rollins album see Global Warming (album). Line plot of global mean land-ocean temperature change from 1880-2010‚ relative to the 1951-1980 mean. The black line is the annual
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Through the eyes of most scientists‚ global warming is seen as a very serious and severe threat. The actions taken by humans‚ such as industry and consumption of fossil fuels plus the increase in population and agriculture have played a big part in global warming. If something is not done soon the results could be very bad. By the middle of the twenty first century‚ there is evidence that the Earth will be warmer than it has been at any time in human history‚ and quite possibly since the
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