Effects of Global Warming on the Environment

Everyone has heard of the impending doom of global warming. Over the last decade, most people have verbally expressed that it was a myth. Now, with the extreme transmutations in our climate, people are finally opening their eyes. The elevating temperatures and extreme weather patterns, pose the question, how could this have transpired? Well, let me tell you. Global warming is defined in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as: the elevation in the earth’s atmospheric and marine temperatures…

Is global climate change real? Although many scientific experts believe that it is in fact real, there is still a percentage of people who consider it to be a rather fictitious idea. It has been a question of continuous debate and will always continue to be, until one day it hits us in the face and changes our environment and the way we live so drastically that life as we once knew would be history. Then the question is going to be, why didn’t we do anything? Even though there is a percentage of…

Rising temperatures has been an ever growing problem overall for the past half century but even the slightest change in the most seemingly unimportant areas of the environment can cause major disruption in the rest of the world. However, the one of the most unknown consequence of this heat wave is the affect it has on permafrost.…

The Lorax From Environmental Science: A Global Concern Watch “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss, then answer the following questions: What is the Lorax? What is his role in the book? The Lorax is the defender of the forests in the book. His role is to protect the forest and all those who live within it. 2. Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot had policies, called utilitarian conservation, that stated that forests should be saved “not because they are beautiful or because they shelter wild creatures of…

the Science Guy. He has become one of the most popular figures in the science community. In his quote, Nye is talking about climate change, which is a change in global or regional climate patterns such as a change in temperature of a region. Climate change is one of the largest issues facing our modern society, and its causes and effects are leaving people and organizations to take charge in saving the planet. The causes of climate change are separated into two categories: natural and…

affected by global warming. Global warming and the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet have prolonged consequences for the people as well as the environment in the Arctic. The effects of global warming in the Arctic and Greenland include rising temperatures, potential methane release from the region loss of sea ice and melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Greenland is melting at an alarming rate as large slabs of ice break off from the mainland and float away as icebergs. Global warming has so…

due to the rich supplies. At the time of the revolution, London went through a phase of smog, bad air and sickness. This was caused by all the pollutants being poured into the air. This era was the first big effect that humans had on the environment, what we now call Global Warming. Global warming is the average increase of Earth's surface temperature due to greenhouse gases that gather in the atmosphere and trap heat from the…

suffer disproportionately from the effects of pollution. Often, it is not only the disproportionate amount of pollution that negatively affects the health of low-income and minority Americans but the combination of that pollution layered on top of existing social disparities, such as access to healthcare. African Americans tend to live closer to…

Global environmental politics is a moderately new field of study within the international community that originated in the early 1970’s and focuses on the interaction of humans and the environment. It has seen significant growth since its inception largely due to the rising worry about environmental issues and the effects of climate change. This paper will respond to the central problem facing global environmental politics to the extent of such problems like global warming, the hole in the ozone…

How and Why California coast (Pacific Coast) is Eroding faster than it should and the effect of it. I chose the California Coast or the Pacific Coast as it is one of the most popular coasts in the world. California has always been in the news for various natural disasters like forest fires, earthquakes and now Coastal erosion. California is also the World’s IT capital where all the famous companies like Google, Facebook, Apple etc are located. Many Indians migrate to california for jobs.…