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Love Your Mother (Earth) The world is changing in a deadly way and if we do not act now, it may be too late to save it. Global climate change is a real problem and needs to be addressed in a truthful manner, by government officials, by educators, and by the media. It is easy to see the effects human interaction has on environmental events and the climate with extreme events happening at a rate never seen before. Even with this happening, many still refuse to accept climate change. Both sides…

once again to inform the public and to advise leaders about the perils that humanity faces.” As is well known, one of the most important thing can be carbon dioxide which we release into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels’ oil, coal, and natural gas to generate electricity, power our vehicles and heat our homes. Human activities produce greenhouse gases and these gases are the key causes of climate change. The greenhouse effect works like this: Energy arrives from the sun in the form of…

Off the Road I Go It was about ten months after acquiring my driver’s license, and I was feeling as pompous as a peacock. It was the winter of 2016. Winters in Minnesota are synonymous with bad weather. The weather that day was desultory as it had snowed throughout the night. The next morning, when the sun came up and warmed the roads much of that fluffy snow turned to unpleasant slush. I woke up just like it was any other day. Little did I know that I would have to make a life or death…

The documentary film Before the Flood, directed by Fisher Stevens and starring academy award winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, in short, is about climate change. It dives into deeper topics such as the effects of industrialism on our planet, what our future looks like and what we should be doing to reverse our actions. Leonardo DiCaprio, who besides being an actor is an environmental activist tries to convey the message that climate change is real and that it is destroying our planet. He…

Driving a gas guzzler for fun will bring pleasure to the driver which produces the most positive outcome for the individual (assumption one). He argues that the ride does no direct harm because “In contrast, global warming will still occur even if I do not drive just for fun.” (Sinnott-Armstrong, pg 334). Meaning, this single act of joy riding is an insignificant contribution towards global warming. Temperatures will continue to rise either way because past emissions of greenhouse gas molecules…

In reference to climate change and the ongoing rise in carbon dioxide emission, which in turn is forcing indigenous people near Arctic ice cap regions to move away from their native homelands, Daniel Wildcat’s Red Alert! seeks to offer guidance in combating this environmental problem by suggesting the use of indigenous knowledge and stressing the importance of a change in mindset about humankind’s relationship with the earth. Also tackling the topic of environmental issues, Rachel Carson’s…

The discussions about the reasoning of climate change is getting more and more overwhelming over the past few decades. The favorers of anthropogenic climate change claim that it is the direct result of human activities that cause climate change, appealing that the whole world should adopt measures immediately to prevent dire climate change, whereas the opponents strongly dispute that human activities are not primarily responsible for climate change. Is anthropogenic influence really the…

There are multiple solutions we can take in order to help combat these climate changes. First, there must be an international political solution such as an application of a carbon tax or levy on the greenhouse gas emissions for all countries involved. Second, funding for developing cheap, clean and economical energy production must be increased, as all economic development is based on increasing energy usage. However, we must not pin all of our hopes on global…

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Air pressure in the blow tube Figure 3 represents air pressure in the blow tube for 4 bar and 6 bar reservoir pressures. Considering only the 4 bar reservoir pressure case, peak pressure observed is 379538.2 Pa, which is 274.5% more than atmospheric pressure. And peak pressure observed is not equal to 4 bar, which can be attributed to the frictional losses in the blow tube and in the pipe connecting blow tube and air reservoir. Fig. 3 Variation of air pressure with…

Global warming is the gradual rise in the temperature of the earth’s surface, oceans and atmosphere. Global warming is caused by the Greenhouse Effect, which humans are responsible for. Due to the burning of fossil fuels, there has been an increase of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses in the earth’s atmosphere and because of this the suns heat becomes trapped and cannot escape through the earth’s atmosphere which in turn causes our planet to heat up. Increased rainfall, droughts and floods…