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In the introduction, “Making Climate Change Understandable” from the book, Climate Change: What It Means For Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren by Joseph DiMento and Pamela Doughman, discuss a sensitive subject in today's society and political universe. The introduction is about climate change and incapability of people understanding, believing, or considering climate change as a huge concern. The authors’ argument conveyed is that climate change is a world issue that humans do not…

In reflection to the reading ‘The Marvelous Clouds’, author John Durham Peters discusses the relationship between media and nature. Author Peters claims that “The irreversible threat to our habitat by climate-change and the explosion of digital devices, of both carbon overload in the atmosphere and the superabundant data in the ‘cloud’” (Peters 1). In other words, he believes both media and nature are related forces and therefore both are at blame for global warming. Within the reading, Peters…

The GreenHouse Effect Many people ask themselves what is the Greenhouse Effect. The Greenhouse Effect is the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere. While this is a good thing as the planet's temperature stays the same and gets warmer this is also affecting the environment badly without use even knowing. Global warming is not just a theory it is happening right before our eyes and is affecting the earth in countless ways and…

In the reading, “The Environmental Issue from Hell” the author portrays some of the dangers of global warming, such as how it affects the polar bears in the Arctic, how SUV’s are a big part of the problem and how we can influence change to people by switching to solar power and possibly change the politics that affect global warming greatly. Although the influence of solar increasing and GNP’s is generally reducing the amount of smog that goes in the air slowly, that still doesn’t mean we’re…

Be it the human-discovery of fire or the advent of the steam engine, it is a popular notion to believe that humans are responsible for the shift in global climate. In fact, Paul Crutzen, Nobel prize winner for his work as an atmospheric chemist, proposed the idea that the human race has influenced the environment so much that there should be a geological epoch named after us: The Anthropocene. However, in Andreas Malm’s article, “The Anthropocene Myth”, Malm implores readers to think contrarily…

Yoga To Ensure Food & Water Security A lot of you might already be aware of global climate crisis and would have read about the various climate change symptoms occurring around the world. It rains and snows when it is supposed to be spring and it is sweltering hot when it is supposed to be fall. However, these are not the only results of climate change. Recently, it has been found that there are more cases of famine around the world which has left numerous areas both thirsty and hungry. With no…

However the biggest of them are in fact solely human, and some of those are the burning of fossil fuels, methane output, and less carbon being consumed. Many scientist argue that global climate change is due to the increased rate of human activities. All of these activities require the combustion of fossil fuels in cars, factories and in electricity production. Many gasses are burned, such as methane, CFCs, and nitrous oxide. However the most common and deadly is CO2, or carbon dioxide. With…

The Pros and Cons of the Global Warming Worst Case Scenario When you talk about global warming, the most common thoughts you'd conjure are worst case scenarios. And that's not surprising, considering how the effects of climate change have been felt by almost everyone in the world in recent years. More intense and frequent tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, forest fires, droughts, and heat waves make the headlines almost regularly. Indeed, it seems the future of Earth is a grim one. However, no…

The movie “An Inconvenient Truth” is a documentary film released in 2006, which is based on former United States Vice President Al Gore’s campaign to educate people about global warming. The film depicts the consequences of mankind’s ignorance towards the environment and how rapidly the climate around us is changing. Global Warming has not only led to increase in the temperature around the globe but it has also made impact on the sea level as well as numerous other things. According to Mr. Gore…

absorbed, allows life on earth by keeping the earth temperature at around 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it would be. The green house gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other artificial chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The primary gases involved in the green house effect are methane, water vapor (most import) and nitrous oxide. Carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere through fossil fuels such as natural gas,…