many of which we are just discovering today. The most important problem started by the industrial revolution is a significant increase in Carbon Dioxide emission‚ which leads to global warming. Globe warming brings about various natural disasters. The most significant disaster is the rising of sea level. Global warming increases the melting of the polar ice caps‚ which brings about a rise in sea level. As sea level rises‚ islands near sea level sink into the sea. Residents on these islands lose
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SUMMARY Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. It happens when high level of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are trapped in the atmosphere causing a rise in temperature. Although the idea that global warming is similar to climate change‚ there are still some distinctions with these two concepts. As mentioned earlier‚ there is a shift from low temperature to high temperature caused mainly by gases when we speak of global warming. While
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entering a restaurant and begin to engage in a heated discussion. Nicolas: It’s so cold out today‚ I don’t remember it being this cold in the past. John: This climate change will destroy us one day. Nick: What do you mean? Global warming is a myth. How can it be global warming if winter is colder than it used to be? John: Are you seriously asking this? The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves‚ and wiser people so full of doubts. Nick: Are you
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Global warming is one of the most serious issues that the world is facing today. What are the causes of global warming and what measures can governments and individuals take to tackle the issue? You must answer these three things in order to fully answer the question: 1. What are the causes of global warming? 2. What can governments do about it? 3. What can individuals do about it? Example of composition: Probably the most worrying threat to our planet at the present time is global warming
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Impacts of Global Warming in the UK Current data for climate change suggest that global warming is taking place due to the enhanced greenhouse effect. If global temperatures continue to rise it will present a number of challenges in the future. Different countries will experience global warming differently depending on their location and level of development‚ but even within a country‚ there will be ‘winners and losers’. For example‚ in the UK Global Warming is good news for coastal resorts‚ especially
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Sunday 8‚ 2010 Eng - 111 Slowing down global warming Global warming is causing many problems for us such as horrible storms‚ melting sea water‚ and extreme heat waves. Even though we always thought of global warming affecting us‚ we never thought of how we caused problems for global warming. For the past decades we did nothing but cause this major crisis‚ now Is the time we need to help it slow down. Us can be taking in many ways‚ individuals
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Will Biofuels solve global warming? Global warming is caused by greenhouse gasses; these trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere that should escape from the earth. Global warming is causing sea levels to rise and ice caps to melt this could lead to coastal cities flooding‚ droughts in area’s which usually get rain and less crops to list only a few affects. The cause of global warming is “greenhouse gasses” these gasses include nitrous oxide carbon dioxide and water vapour. Cars produce CO2‚ H20 and
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IS GLOBAL WARMING AFFECTING SPAIN? During the last 30 years‚ Global Warming has become in a significant problem that affects all parts of the world either greater or lesser extent. Therefore‚ Spain is also affected negatively by this phenomenon and both humans and animals and plants are the main victims of this situation. The aim of this essay is to prove that this fact is a real problem for Spain by means of an analysis of temperature factor that is closely related to Global Warming. Increasing
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countries are forging new treaties and protocols to create a global paradigm shift in the way we handle climate change. After analyzing the different articles in the reading I noticed a reoccurring theme in most of the articles. With the recent shifts in the weather countries have been coming together more frequently to discuss the issue. This is a positive move forward‚ but it seems that all that comes of the gatherings on global warming is hard promises by countries to cut back on emissions to a
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Global Warming is an issue that the World has been dealing with for many decades. I really did not understand about Global Warming until I enrolled in a Meteorology class at American Public University‚ and it was then that I was introduced to the issue of Global Warming‚ and the damage that is happening to our World. Global Warming refers to the gradual warming of global average temperatures due to the slow increase concentrations of greenhouses gases‚ primarily carbon dioxide. Burning of fossil
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