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Volcano Monitoring The U.S. government should spend tax dollars on volcano and earthquake research because if we continue researching volcanoes scientists can find better ways to predict when a volcano will erupt which can lead to the saving of thousands of lives. Natural disasters are very dangerous and there are some for almost every climate. The one natural disaster that can be in almost all climates is a volcano. Volcanoes can be in places as cold as Iceland or in places warm like the…

Milankovitch Theory The Milankovitch theory gives us a clear indication about the long term climate change. (Tyson & Whyte, 2004:371). In this essay firstly I will be discussing how Miluntin Milankovitch collected the information about the Milankovitch cycle and came up with methods on how to calculate and also use them to explain the climate variability, secondly I will be explaining the difference between the natural variability and the anthropogenic climate change. The Milankovitch cycle.…

Reinventing a Space. Niall Linton Gasometers, also known as Gas Holder’s began their existence around the late 19th century, they were scattered around almost every city and town as a means of storing gas. These structures are made up of a circular metal frame which would hold a piston, this piston would rise and fall due to the amount of gas being stored. Due to more modern and efficient technology gasometers have been left disused…

Question No 1: State Responsibility and Climate Change How might an International court or tribunal change the attitude and behaviour of states in their regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? 1. Introduction The consequences of climate change—melting glaciers, ocean acidification, more frequent and intense storms, and droughts threaten people’s daily lives, cause health crises, threaten food security, destroy industries and infrastructure, render borders unstable, and cripple economies.…

Sun is the essential part of our life. It helps regulate the climate and it is the main source of energy in the ecosystems. If just one of these factors changed markedly, it would impact all life on Earth. Furthermore, sunlight also helps our bodies to form vitamin D underneath the skin. This vitamin helps people to build and maintain bones. However, beside all of it’s good qualities, the sun can also be harmful in large amounts. One of the most dangerous factors from sun is exposure of UV…

The arctic ecosystem has its own food web which is made for its own animal and species and other environmental characteristics. Carbon cycles through the web from atmosphere and to the seawater. The arctic ecosystem helps reduce global warming and helps keep the temperature normal. Earths poles are cold because they get very less sunlight. The arctic ocean insulates the air. Arctic ecosystems have over thousands of algae, microbes, fish, birds and marine mammals. The Arctic ocean is one of the…

THE WATER CYLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Among the most serious Earth science and ecological approach issues challenging society are the potential changes in the Earth’s water cycle because of environmental change. The science community agrees that the climate of Earth is now changing due to natural variability; it includes solar variability and increasing concentration of greenhouse gases. Moreover, it is noticed that these changes may strongly affect atmospheric water vapor concentrations,…

With the evident global warming and climate change across every parts of the globe that has created ripple-effects of natural disasters, many governments of developed and developing nations have been putting extra efforts to prevent, manage and accommodate the dire consequences of mother nature and bad weather conditions, especially with the obvious increasing urban activities and population explosion in most cities of the world. Unfortunately, the reverse is the case in virtually all the cities…

SOME DINOSAURS WERE LIKELY TO BE WARM BLOODED Dinosaurs belong to class Reptilia and so for many years scientists thought that they were cold blooded, with slow metabolisms and dominated the planet for about 135 million years. However, birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic, with fast metabolic rates, raising the question of whether or not their extinct dinosaur relatives were also warm-blooded. Whether the extinct dinosaurs were ectothermic or endothermic or…

Global warming and climate change are a result of the lifestyle and actions humans have taken over the past one hundred years and through the industrialization era. The burning of fossil fuels in an industrial setting and through divining cars increases the CO2 levels in the atmosphere and consequently warms the Earth. Cutting down and burning forests also has a large impact on global warming and climate change. Trees intake carbon dioxide and release oxygen, so when forests are cut down, the…