Global Warming is an Ethical Issue By Alan AtKisson "Ethics" is a word that does not usually get the blood flowing. It calls up images of Aristotle‚ schoolteachers‚ hearings where political leaders weakly defend their honor after having done something foolish that everyone else understands to be wrong. "Ethical issues‚" as a phrase‚ is even worse. Ethical issues are often precisely the ones we prefer to avoid‚ because they force us to confront the sometimes muddy difference between doing right
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around the world. There are anthropogenic and natural causes which are responsible for this cause but individually they contribute a small amount but are a huge factor as a whole. One of the main problems about the climate change is global warming. What is global warming? It is the increase in the mean temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is said that the temperature has been rising by 0.5° every year and the highest temperature recorded was 47.6° in Faya‚ Chad in 22nd June 2010. This causes
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we have another island to escape to? We are trapped in an island called ’Earth’ with its natural environment threatened by our own results. Global warming is a major fact. What is global warming? It is simply the warmer air getting trapped within our sky limit and in return warms the whole environment. According to several leading scientists global warming can be compared and contrasted in the following manner. For some it causes a change in the climate and environment but for others it’s a total
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to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” (“Text A”)‚ an international newspaper advertisement from Exxon Mobil and “An Agenda for Climate Action” (Text B”)‚ a speech by Eileen Claussen‚ the President of Pew Center on Global Climate Change were both written in 2006 with the focus on global warming. The author in both commentaries strives to bring out the message that as human beings‚ we must take action to stop the worsening of climate change. Text A is a published article by a company that emphasizes that
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The Real Cause of Global Warming There are many scientists who say that humans are the cause of global warming. With all the talk about green house gases going up and the amount of emissions that humans are putting into the atmosphere‚ not very many people talk about the other side of the story. By proving that humans are not the Cause of Global warming people will better understand what really is causing global warming. There are three very important points that one needs to look at when discussing
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Global Warming and Human Influence Global warming can be defined as; “An increase in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution” (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary‚ 2008). According to University of Phoenix Global Warming (2008)‚ the data accumulated from daily measurements indicate that the Earth’s average surface temperature in 2005 was the third highest since the mid-1800s. Apparently
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Global warming and can it be prevented Name SCI 207 Instructor Date Global warming and can it be prevented We have to face the fact that global warming is now a part of the planet‚ and may be due to the actions of humans making it human-caused. One of the causes of global warming is greenhouse-gas effect. It will continue for centuries even if and when greenhouse-gas emissions are stabilized in the future. Humans are helping to cause global warming by "Fossil fuel use‚ agriculture
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Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Globalization is the process of extending social relations across world space. Such extension results in simultaneous development in technology and trade. Some of them cause harm to the atmosphere and invites global warming. The increase in the earth’s average surface temperature due to the effect of green house gases such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels etc leads to global warming. As
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that may affect global warming‚ world leaders must consider key issues such as greenhouse gas emissions‚ carbon dioxide emissions and changes in surface temperature because are these issues that have the most prominent impact on global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions are important to consider when making global warming policies. Greenhouse gases are the cause of the greenhouse effect on our earth‚ which leads to the warming of the earth’s surface over time‚ also know as global warming. Scientists are
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The Future Effects of Global Warming Introduction After several years of scientific debate over the existence of global warming‚ most experts now agree that global warming exists and may have devastating effects on Earth’s climate. Global warming will influence and/or cause heat waves‚ polar ice caps melting‚ flooding‚ extinction‚ and droughts. Social‚ Historic and Intellectual Context of the Study The existing research literature suggests that global warming is going to greatly affect the
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