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    Climate Change Theory

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    Ashley Colombe ENGWR 300 December 6, 2014 The Theory of Global Warming and Climate Change: What It Is, What It Has Done, and How to Fix It The world is constantly going through changes, from freezing winters to hot summers. In recent years weather conditions, among many other things, have changed. Global warming and climate change is one theory that scientists believe has caused these recent occurrences. They have shown vast effects on the environment and the oceans throughout the United States…

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    the aviation industry would like to admit” (Taber 7). Each time an aircraft is used, it adds more CO2 into the atmosphere, causing climate change. Aircrafts contribute to the increasing carbon dioxide that come from human sources. These crafts emit gases and particles high in the atmosphere by doing so; they damage the ozone layer. Aircraft engines produce emissions that are similar to other emissions produced by fossil fuel combustion. When fuel is burned, the carbon in the fuel is released and…

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    has been the increase in the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) being released into the atmosphere and trapping more and more heat (Environmental, 2016g). This leads to the greenhouse effect. Both natural and enhanced greenhouse effects exist. The natural greenhouse effect is made up of natural processes…

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    overflow, greenhouse gases, and environmental danger. In an attempt to reverse these problems, a reduced waste system should be implemented at Davenport North due to the irresponsible waste and its impact on the environment. Many students do not think twice about what they are throwing away, but the…

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    toxic greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. To understand what climate change is, one must first understand what "climate" is. Simply put, climate is the average weather in a region. It involves patterns of precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind, and seasons ("What Is Climate Change?"). The simplest effects of climate change involve the abnormal variations…

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    communities. Air pollution gets worse with rising temperatures. This is created when pollution from factories, cars and other sources react to heat and the sun. The main component of smog is ground-level ozone. The hotter things get, the more greenhouse gases we get. Humans are not the only ones that face challenges. As sea and land make rapid changes, the animals disappear if they don’t adapt quickly. Many ocean, freshwater and land species are moving to cooler areas, to escape warming. They…

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    to more to Human Activity than to Natural Geologic Trends’’ Science in Dispute. Vol.3. Detroit: Gale, 2003.82-91. Opposing Viewpoints in Context.Web.03 Aug.2015.The atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases are changing due to human activities. The atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases increased because of human activities, primarily due to the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), deforestation and agricultural practices, since the beginning of the pre industrial era…

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    by the toxic gases released from the volcano or the chemical in the water caused by volcanic ash in the animal’s water source. Mount Vesuvius had a major effect on vegetation because it left an entire region as a desert wasteland, any plant that had an encounter with lava had died straight away, through other plants died from volcanic ash that was ejected from the volcano or the gases that came out of Mount Vesuvius made acid rain destroying anything else that was left, the toxic gases that were…

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    the sun form solar winds, also know as large streams of charged particles streaming toward the Earth.The excited atoms reach the Earth's atmosphere and produce heat which gives us light! Did you know that the way they give their colors is gases? Different gases have different colors that's how they have their colors, it's more likely to have green but it ranges from red to pink,blue to purple,dark to light. The main gas is neon which…

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    John Dalton

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    Now that he had figured out all this about gases, he wondered what gases were made of. 2000 years before, the same question was asked and answered by Democritus. He called them atoms but no one knew of his statement was true. It was now Dalton’s quest to find it out. (“John Dalton”). Dalton eventually…

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