Air Conditioning and Global Warming Air conditioning systems use energy to remove heat from a given location‚ transferring it to the exterior in the form of exhaust. Some of the energy is invariably wasted as heat‚ and this additional heat must also be exhausted. Thus‚ air conditioning results in net heat release to the environment. The warming effect is aggravated‚ moreover‚ because higher forms of energy such as electricity are used to power air conditioners. Generating and transmitting this
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Global Warming and Acid Rain INTRODUCTION The phrase Global Warming has become familiar to many people as one of the important environmental issues of our day. Many views have been expressed concerning it‚ from the doom-laden to the dismissive. There is little debate that the earth is undoubtedly warming. It has been the subject of intense debate for decades now. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and industrial gases from fossil fuels play a huge role in why our environment is changing
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A GLOBAL PROBLEM: RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE Climate change is a tangible problem and its existence can no longer be denied. It is one of the most important scientific‚ economic threats facing to the earth. There are many factors lead to climate change‚ such as greenhouse gases‚ carbon dioxide‚ fossil fuels. Although it would be self-deception to believe that humans had nothing to do with it‚ the fact is that human activities caused negative effects on climate change. More people exploit
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CHAPTER I The Problem and Its Background Introduction The Philippines is now on the edge of great struggle on keeping up on climate change. Not enough technologies‚ corrupted funds for problems related to climate changes‚ ignorant citizens who don ’t care about the effects of these Global phenomena’s. What lies on this country? How could we survive? Would it be the last of our kind? Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environments‚ social and economic threats
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Final Project January 19‚ 2010 By Robert Reightler For Undergraduate Program Kaplan University Instructor: “HU345-01: R. Dean Davenport‚ Ph.D.‚ J.D.” Global Warming Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? 2 Global Warming is the hottest topic of the global environmental movement in the last decade. While warming trends have affected weather patterns causing drought conditions‚ polar icecap meltdown‚ and severe storm cycles like those that spawned hurricane Katrina in 2005‚ scientists
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In the mid-twentieth century the earth’s average temperature is increasing due to the fact that global warming is taking place. Global surface temperature has increased about a degree in the past century. The progressive gradual rise of the earth’s surface temperature thought to be caused by the greenhouse effect is responsible for changes in global climate patterns. An increase in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures is widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse
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GLOBAL WARMING AND IT’S EFFECTS ON GLACIERS Global Warming The average global temperature has raised more than expected in the past few decades. Many prefer to use the milder term ’climate change’ instead of the harsher ’global warming’ to describe this change in average global temperature. The main cause of global warming is thought to be the ’greenhouse effect’ that is mainly caused by us humans. With an increase in temperature glaciers worldwide are melting faster than the time taken for
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Global Warming (A False Ideology) Global warming is defined by Google as “A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide‚ CFCs‚ and other pollutants”. The “greenhouse effect” is essential to life on Earth. If there were no greenhouse gases‚ the temperature of the air would be about 32°F or 18°C colder than it is now. The earth would pretty much be a frozen wasteland. We need greenhouse
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Global warming is currently the most controversial issue.The debate over global warming has been going all around the world and it seems endless. Depending on one’s political view‚ whether a person is a liberal or a conservative may consider global warming as the biggest challenge facing humanity or one may dismiss‚ saying it is not real or may simply claims global warming is a hoax. However‚ there are strong‚ credible evidences that indicate the extreme and unpredictable weather pattern we have
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temperature of our Earth has increased by about 4.5 degrees (Guggenheim). This may not seem like a lot‚ but on a global scale‚ it can have a huge impact. Global Warming is a serious problem‚ and it should be taken very seriously. Unless we take action now‚ we will have major consequences to deal with later on. These include‚ but are certainly not limited to‚ extreme weather‚ a decline in polar life‚ and effects on human health. It seems like Global Warming has become such a political issue that people
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