told me that I was the third person who came there because of bug bites that week. She said since last winter was warm, several injurious bugs were able to survive and turned out to be hidden dangers on campus. Although I have always believed that global warming is happening, that was the very first time I experienced the effect of it in person. However, in front of the evidence offered by renowned scholars from all over the world and more dramatic…
grows into small sheets that look like pancakes, and eventually merge together to form large ice floes which can span miles. As the ice forms, it expels the salt, which increases the density of the surrounding water and thus plays a critical role in global ocean circulation.” This means that the more dense the ice is, the less the molecules are going to move and since it will be probably less denser, there is a chance that whoever travels around the arctic will probably fall through the ice. In…
Global Warming: Global warming is the slow increase in temperatures caused by greenhouse gases. Global warming has many affects on the Rocky mountain national park. The average temperature rise is 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit per year. This creates new challenges to preserve the park because many of the organisms…
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) are endangered due to accelerated climate warming, which is affecting sea ice thickness which polar bears rely on for finding food and mates (Elvin 2014). An approach to help support polar bear subpopulations is the Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) methodology. This method is used for assessing, monitoring, and managing ecosystems as well as taking into account of human activities; fishing, pollution, ecosystem health, etc (Elvin 2014). There are seventeen arctic…
Pollution has been impacting the Earth for multiple years. In Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels around the world to some of the world's most polluted places. Blackwell asks if the human race destroying the Earth with all the pollution that we have been creating. In the book Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels to Chernobyl, Fort McMurray, Port Arthur, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch , The Amazon Rainforest, Guiyu & Linfen, and the Yamuna River, which are some of the…
Is there anyone who wants to hold on to an 80 pound Chow Chow dog when it’s 100 degrees? The air conditioning went out that day at my father’s veterinary hospital in Hawaii. Talk about social and economic disruption. I am not taking climate change lightly but rather linking social interaction with economic activity. Really they are all linked, which emphasizes the catastrophic effects of climate change. But the earth is our home because we are social. Disruption of that bond is the root cause of…
1. What types of winds were required in each level of the atmosphere? Describe the wind speed and direction at each level. ANS: The upper, mid and low-level winds should blow in the same direction and the wind speed should be medium or light. 2.Why is it critical that all levels blow in the same direction to form a tropical storm? What happens when you have lower winds blowing a different direction than upperwinds? ANS: The wind must blow in the same direction for the tropical storm to make…
The term Megafauna means giant animals. The animals that fall in this category generally weigh over 40 kg. For e.g. mammals such as the Diprotodon weighed approximately 2780 kg which is also known as the largest marsupial and Thylacoleo which weighed between 100-1000 kg which is known as the largest meat-eating mammal ever lived. This term is also used to describe the animals that are extinct and use to live millions of years ago. Megafauna in Australia consisted mammals such as the large…
Costco Wholesale Corporation began in 1983 in Seattle, Washington. It is the second largest retailer store in the nation and serves too many communities. Employing over 135,000 full and part time employees in the United States alone, and around 200,000 employees worldwide. A corporation that is efficient in operations, has unmatched savings and is accessible through membership has a vision to give the customer a low efficient discount price and still continue to financially make a profit. The…
Why do you think global climate change has become such a misunderstood concept in the U.S., and so politically charged (as compared to other countries)? I believe climate change is so misunderstood because of how the message and facts are spread in our country. You will hear from two different sides that either global warming is something we need to be extremely concerned about or that it is a myth and quite frankly doesn’t exist. We have the media to blame for this. The media, like for most…