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Global warming is not good and I think people should try to prevent.

1. The primary greenhouse gas responsible for global warming is carbon dioxide. The U.S. is responsible for 19.91% of the carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. 2. Since 1990, yearly emissions of carbon dioxide have gone up by about 6 billion metric tons worldwide, which is more than a 20% increase. Almost all of that increase is due to human activities. 3. Carbon dioxide takes 100 years to disperse in the atmosphere. Even if emissions are stopped today, we will still feel the effects for years to come. 4. During the 20th century alone, the average surface temperature of the world has increased by 1.2 to 1.4°F. 2000-2009 was the hottest decade on record, with eight of the hottest 10 years having occurred since 2000. 5. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment has concluded that in the past 50 years, the average temperatures of Alaska, eastern Russia and western Canada have increased as much as 7°F. This rise is almost twice the global average. 6. Extreme weather doesn't just mean high temperatures. Global warming is causing more intense rainfall and droughts at the same time across the world. 7. Sea levels have risen between 4-8 inches worldwide during the last century, and experts predict they could rise as much 2 feet in the next 100 years. 8. The World Health Organization blames 150,000 deaths per year on the effects of global warming including extreme weather, drought, heat waves, decreased food production and the increased spread of diseases like malaria. 9. At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, migrating north to escape rising temperatures. 10. Coral reefs are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature. Scientists say if current CO2 emission trends continue, the world's coral reefs could be virtually destroyed by 2050. 11. Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit 12. The last Ice Age began to recede about 20,000 years ago.

13. The agricultural revolution, where humans converted forests and rangelands into farms, began to develop about 10,000 years ago. 14. The concentration of carbon dioxide increased 2.87 ppm in 1997-98, more than in any other year of record. 15. 75% of the annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is due to the burning of fossil fuels. 16. Deforestation accounts for nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas 17. The Amazon is a huge brake on runaway climate change 18. Forests once covered half of the Earth’s landmass. 19. temperature can change in a way that helps us. 20. without the green house effect it would be freezing or burning hot. 21. Global warming makes the sea rise 22. In 1999 the death of the Golden Toad in Central America was the first documented species extinction from climate change. 23. Because of melting ice polar bears may be gone from the planet in 100 years. 24. In the tropics increased sea temperatures are causing coral reefs to bleach as the heat kills algae that are necessary to coral health and survival. 25. U.S. states may lose their official birds because they head for cooler climates including the Baltimore oriole of Maryland, black-capped chickadee of Massachusetts, and the American goldfinch of Iowa. 26. **Britain **is one degree Celsius cooler now than it was at the time of the Domesday book **27.Greenland **got its name from the verdant pastures that attracted the Norse settlers under Eric the Red in 986. They carried on their normal way of life for 300 years until the Little Ice Age, when they were driven off by the encroaching ice and the Inuit took over. The ice and the Inuit are still there. **28.Carbon dioxide **is a minor greenhouse gas. In the atmosphere there is over a hundred times the concentration of water vapour, which is the dominant greenhouse gas. 29.Without the **Greenhouse Effect **there would be no life on Earth. **30.Temperature measurements **by satellite, radio sonde balloons and well maintained rural surface stations in the West show no significant warming. 31.The evidence of significant warming comes from surface stations that are affected by a variety of factors that contaminate the data. **32.Computer models **of the climate are worthless, as they are based on many assumptions about interactions between climate factors that are still unknown to science. They are generally unstable and chaotic, giving a wide variety of answers depending on the input assumptions. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">33.The Kyoto agreement **would have a devastating effect on the world economy but, since carbon dioxide is a minor greenhouse gas, an undetectable effect on the climate. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">34.The IPCC ** has been the main engine for promoting the global warming scare. It has become notorious for its corrupt practices of doctoring its reports and executive summaries, **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">after **they have been approved by the participating scientists, to conform to its political objectives <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">35.The really big lie **about man-made global warming is that **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">almost all scientists **accept it. More than 4,000 scientists from 106 countries, including 72 Nobel prize winners, signed the Heidelberg Appeal (1992), calling for a rational scientific approach to environmental problems. Many senior scientists have also supported The Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming (1992), The Leipzig Declaration (1997) and finally the Oregon Petition (1998) which received the signatures of over 19,000 scientists. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__

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 * __Global Warming Effects-__**
 * 1) Water levels rise because the ice is melting.
 * 2) Polar bears drowned and die.
 * 3) They drowned because they get tired and cant rest on the ice.
 * 4) The global mean temp. will rise 2.5 to 10* F
 * 5) Less snow.
 * 6) More mosquitoes.

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 * __Causes of Global Warming-__**
 * 1) Green house gases
 * Burning fossil fuel
 * water vapor
 * Carbon Dioxide
 * Methane

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 * __The Changes from global warming__**-
 * 1) Temp. have risen 14* F from 1880.
 * 2) The sun is melting the ice.
 * 3) The O-Zone layer is being destroyed.
 * 4) Polar Bears are dieing.

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 * __Why I think people should try to purvent Global Warming-__**
 * 1) It is killing of animals around the world.
 * 2) Less snow every year.
 * 3) Smog fills the sky.
 * 4) Less land.
 * 5) An increase of major weather events.
 * 6) Less air to breath.
 * 7) Glaciers melt.
 * 8) Arctic is diapering.
 * 9) 1/10 of and in. of water is rising in the oceans every year.
 * 10) Can lead to a large scale food and water shortige.

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 * __Ways to Prevent Global Warming-__**
 * 1) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
 * 2) Use less heat and air conditioning
 * 3) Change light bulbs
 * 4) Plant more trees
 * 5) Don't litter
 * 6) Drive less and drive smart
 * 7) Use electric cars
 * 8) Use less heating and air conditioning
 * 9) Buy energy efficient products
 * 10) Use less hot water
 * 11) Use the off switch
 * 12) Convince others to conserve
 * 13) Get a report card from your utility company

Global Warming is when the earth heats up. []

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Thesis: some may think that global warming is not a big problem but others think that it is and we should stop what we are doing physical. For example using cars all the time big trucks and factories. They all put toxic gases in to the air.


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">climate change is effecting people and the environment
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Greater energy efficiency and new technologies hold promise for reducing green house gases and solving this global problem.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">average temperatures in the arctic have risen at almost twice the rate as temperatures in the rest of the world over the past few decades
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Widespread melting of glaciers and sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures present additional evidence of strong Arctic warming

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Some other examples of using energy and polluting the air are : <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">(KJ)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">turning on a light
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">watching tv
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">washing or drying clothing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">use a chair dryer
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">riding in a car
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">heating a meal in the microwave
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">playing a video game
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">using a dish washer

(BM) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/07/melting-icebergs-slow-global-warming] __ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-02-04/global-warming/28133814_1_global-warming-carbon-dioxide-tree-growth


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Melting icebergs might slow down the warming process.
 * 2) Floating icebergs produced gouging minerals from the bedrock.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this can triggering a large, natural removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">it might buy us some time to stop the carbon emit ions but it will take time to fix it.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the iron compounds can fertilize large-scale growth of photosynthetic plankton, which take in carbon dioxide from the air as they flourish?
 * 6) The Ocean could remove an extra 26 million tones of CO2.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scientists found that icebergs contained grains of ferrihydrite and schwertmannite which are two iron minerals that could boost plankton growth.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the number of icebergs in the Antarctic was expected to rise by about 20 per cent by the end of the century.
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this could remove an extra 500 million tones of carbon dioxide each year, if all the plankton growth.
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Global warming isn’t all our fault but we did a lot to it like the burning of fossil fuels that creates a hole in the ozone layer. But nature has to blame too.
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">global warming is helping to grow the trees and has been doing that for 200 years.

(BM) http://cop-15.org/global-warming/prevent-global-warming/
 * 1) we need to keep the environment clean and living in the fight against global warming.
 * 2) always recycle
 * 3) ride your bike or walk around in your town instead of driving to cut back on fossil fuels
 * 4) save of water, fuel, electricity when you can.

(kw) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">(kw)
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The greenhouse effect makes the earth able to have people living on it, if there gets to be too many gases, the earth can get unusually warmer, and many plants, animals, and people will die.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Sometimes the temperature can change in a way that kind of helps us. The greenhouse effect makes the earth appropriate for people to live on.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The greenhouse effect is when the temperature rises, the sun’s heat and light is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Greenhouse gasses are gasses are in the earth’s atmosphere that collect heat and light from the sun
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">With too many greenhouse gasses in the air, the earth’s atmosphere will trap too much heat and the earth will get too hot. As a result people, animals, and plants would die because the heat would be too strong<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;">.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">With too many greenhouse gasses in the air, the earth’s atmosphere will trap too much heat and the earth will get too hot. As a result people, animals, and plants would die because the heat would be too strong<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;">.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Global warming makes the sea rise, and when the sea rises, the water covers many low land islands<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;">.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">This is a big problem for many of the plants, animals, and people on islands. The water covers the plants and causes some of them to die. When they die, the animals lose a source of food, along with their habitat.
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Animals have a better ability to adapt to what happens than plants do, they may die also<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;">.
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">When the plants and animals die, people lose two sources of food, plant food and animal food. They may also lose their homes. As a result, they would also have to leave the area or diethere.
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The oceans are affected by global warming in other ways, as well. Many things that are happening to the ocean are linked to global warming<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;">.
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">One thing that is happening is warm water, caused from global warming, is harming and killing algae in the ocean<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;">.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Global warming is doing many things to people as well as animals and plants. It is killing algae, but it is also killing many huge forests. The pollution that causes global warming is connected to acid rain.
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Acid rain gradually destroys almost everything it touches. Global warming is also causing many more fires that wipe out whole forests.
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">we use the sources of energy way more than the resources that give off less population.