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What is global warming?

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 13:12 in What is Global Warming? | viewed 283,225 times | 1 Comment
What is global warming?

While some would call global warming a theory, others would call it a proven set of facts. Opinions differ vehemently. Let us consider global warming to be both a premise that the environment of the world as we know it is slowly, but very surely increasing in overall air and water temperature, and a promise [...]... (Continue reading)

Causes of Global Warming

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 13:11 in What is Global Warming? | viewed 189,918 times | 3 Comments

Let us start our examination of Global warming with a study of its causes. Global warming is an overall state of existence that is the cumulative effect of hundreds of environmental factors. All of these join together in both a linear and random model to show global warming as a chain of events. Most modern attention [...]... (Continue reading)

The Greenhouse Effect

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 13:05 in What is Global Warming? | viewed 82,753 times | 4 Comments

Anyone who has either spent time in a greenhouse for plants or simply gotten into a car on a hot summer day has personally experienced the greenhouse effect. Heat enters an enclosed area and then reflects back and forth building upon itself. While the ambient temperature outside might be 85 degrees Fahrenheit, inside an automobile [...]... (Continue reading)

Global warming as a chain of events

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 13:03 in What is Global Warming? | viewed 58,008 times | 0 Comments

Once again remember we are attempting to define global warming as a chain of events. The first several of these links is an over abundance of solar radiation absorbing gases and other particles floating about in our atmosphere. The next grouping of events concerns what happens when the small percentage of increased heat on our planet’s [...]... (Continue reading)

Primary effects of global warming

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 12:55 in What is Global Warming? | viewed 88,209 times | 0 Comments

The effects of global warming are in some ways less definable than the causes. It seems odd that such huge manifestations of change such as rising sea levels, glacier retreat, and Arctic shrinkage somehow manage to filter down so that when members of western civilization safely tucked away in homes and apartments look at the [...]... (Continue reading)

Secondary effects of global warming

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 12:43 in What is Global Warming? | viewed 44,392 times | 3 Comments

All of the above initial effects of global warming set into motion the following more directly adverse effects. Every human being, animal and plant on planet Earth feels these second tier effects. Decreased crop yields For a short time it was hoped that a byproduct of global warming would be increased yields of agriculture. The obvious conclusion [...]... (Continue reading)

Summation of effects

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 10:59 in What is Global Warming? | viewed 23,178 times | 0 Comments

The effects of global warming are beginning to manifest themselves. While the greatest threat still lies at a point perhaps some fifty years forward, the current problems and predicaments are more than a harbinger. Global warming has already diminished the quality of life for the world’s poorest peoples. Hunger and starvation on the African continent [...]... (Continue reading)

Global warming vs. unemployment

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 10:54 in Global Warming News | viewed 6,752 times | 0 Comments

Congress is gearing up for another run at a cap-and-trade law and opponents say it will cost too many jobs. Are they right? NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Get ready for fireworks. As congressional Democrats begin drafting another bill regulating greenhouse gases, opponents are already saying it would cost millions of jobs amid the worst recession in [...]... (Continue reading)

Five places to go before global warming messes them up

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 10:53 in Global Warming News | viewed 4,931 times | 0 Comments

(CNN) — Scientists expect some great travel spots to be altered or ruined by global climate change. Some of the changes are already taking place. Others are expected to be seen in coming decades. There are two ways to look at this: Either stay home (which might be less depressing and won’t add more airline emissions) or [...]... (Continue reading)

Why Global Warming May Be Fueling Australia’s Fires

Written on 15 Mar, 2009 at 10:51 in Global Warming News | viewed 7,951 times | 0 Comments

The raging infernos that have left more than 160 people dead in southern Australia burned with such speed that they resembled less a wildfire than a massive aerial bombing. Many victims caught in the blazes had no time to escape; their houses disintegrated around them, and they burned to death. As firefighters battle the flames [...]... (Continue reading)

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