The Weather Essay

or a surrounding. Imagine weather having an effect on your day and your mood. Whether it be rain discouraging your day or scorching heat from the sun that creates a whirl of fury inside of you and explodes every now and then. Would this ruin your life as you see it or does it describe you plainly and this is how you may act sometimes. This is the plain truth for which the characters live in, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, the weather has a direct correlation…

The earth is home to many men and women who use the land and environment to survive. Whether it be from third world countries where the only food available is the food you plant for yourself, to highly industrialized countries such as America where farms package your food and ship them around the nation. The environment serves as the foundation to human survival. The earth gives so much and asks so little in return. Ironically, men and women all around the world are responsible for the depletion…

Ba Ria-Vung Tau province is located in the South East, in the southern key economic zone, on the trans-Asia road, with a convenient seaport system, airport, and river network. BR-VT province has a common boundary with Ho Chi Minh City in the west, with Dong Nai in the north, with Binh Thuan in the east: tropical monsoon with average annual temperature of 27oC, Average annual rainfall is low (about 1,600 mm) and unevenly distributed, nearly 90% of annual rainfall is concentrated in the rainy…

In this paper I will discuss hoe the character Jo from Chapter 1 of Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller’s “The Seasons Alter”, develops two broad types of evidential support for human-induced climate change. Her two claims include: build on what you know and consider the alternatives. I will accuracy present how these two types of evidential support for human-induced climate change (build on what you know and consider the alternatives), support the claim that human activities are contributing…

In recent decades, the world has encountered dramatic ecological and socioeconomic changes. Situations such as increasing urbanization processes, population growth, expanding poverty, but additionally climate change and the expansion in natural disasters have affected the economic and social advancement in numerous parts of the world. (Makoka and Kaplan, 2016). Growing natural disaster threats do not simply mirror the onset of events, for instance, earthquakes or floods, but additionally the…

The apocalypse is an idea that people talk about regularly in today’s society. From a zombie outbreak to a major flood, anything could lead to the end of time as we know it. However, nothing is more frightening or real than the threat of catastrophic climate change. Climate change is the result of exponential amounts of carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere, which causes the earth to trap heat in between the surface and the ozone causing a drastic temperature change and extreme…

Katherine Hayhoe’s YouTube series, “Global Weirding”, is a series that touches on the common myths and misconceptions people have on global warming. Her introductory video begins with her explaining that you don’t have to be a green wearing, granola eating, liberal to care about the earth and its climate. In fact, she is a Canadian who is a Christian and she very much cares about the climate change. Scientists have been studying climate change since 1820, almost 200 years now. And it has been 50…

Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman’s introduction to “Making Climate Change Understandable” presents an argument for climate change that denies frequent deliberate intervention with the climate by the human population but rather supports the accidental change in climate. The authors also claim that because climate change is so difficult to understand, people do not recognize it as a grave issue. Early in the text, DiMento and Doughman clearly state the purpose of the article as follows,…

2.1 Land Surface Temperature (LST) Land Surface Temperature is the radiative skin temperature of the land surface of land surface processes from local through global scales or it can be defined as an average temperature of features of the exact surface of the Earth calculated from measured radiance. It is a fundamental property of the Earth’s surface that can be determined remotely. Most of the papers uses the term land surface temperature and air temperature interchangeably, however these two…

The movie I have chosen for a film analysis is called, San Andreas which relates to an environmental disaster that is unpredictable and results in a serious effect on the environment (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2015). The San Andreas shows one fascinating aspect of American disaster film that presents two apocalyptic, an earthquake and a tsunami by addressing the most-commonly portrayed environmental disaster. Along with showing the powerful natural disaster, this film concentrates on informing…