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Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway: Summary Chapter 4: Constructing a Counternarrative: The Fight over the Ozone Hole The idea that human activities were damaging the Earth’s protective ozone layer entered the public’s mind in 1970. Supersonic Transport would fly inside the stratospheric ozone layer and that worried scientist because they thought the emission would do damage. The MIT commissioned a major study and released a statement to the state of the stratosphere and the…

The deciduous forests in Canada are temperate, and usually appear between the 25 and 50 north parallel. They consist mainly of hardwood and broadleaf trees, which in turn, consist of Maple, Oak, Beech, eand Elm tres. Deciduous Forests occupy a relatively small area of Canada, and have mild climates, with 750-1500 mm of rainfall a year, and a mean temperature of 10 degrees celsius. Deciduous forests are also one of the few forests that do go through 4 seasons. Raccons are found here, as well as…

Clean Power Plan For many years, the amount of green house gas emissions have been gradually increasing due to the innovations of industrialization. Transportation, productivity of electricity, industry and agriculture all provide the necessities of human life. But an action always causes a reaction. The many inventions and innovations in the industrial category have been polluting the air with carbon dioxide causing a significant increase of climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency…

The Effects of Climate Change in Alaska Climate change, is it real or is it a hoax? If you live in Alaska maybe you’ve noticed environmental changes such as glaciers gradually melting, or maybe you’ve visited the village of Kaktovik and saw the polar bears that are new to the area (Goode, 2016). Perhaps you’ve recently moved to a new city because your last home was to inconvenient for you to make it to work on time. Well for the people of Shishmaref, they recently decided to move from their home…

In the article “Persian Gulf Heat: It May Become too Hot for Humans to Survive, Study Warns,” Brandon Miller, a CNN meteorologist, writes about how the Middle East could become uninhabitable by the year 2100. Humans have been hearing about the effect of climate change for a long time now, but many of them don’t really enter our minds as a big problem. This new study is different. Authors from Loyola Marymount University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have put out a disturbing idea…

In her article “Are We Missing the Big Picture on Climate Change ?”, Rebecca Solnit argues that climate change is larger than our narrow minded perspective, resulting in it being hard to grasp. She also accuses the fossil fuel industry of being main contributor to this growing issue, that if allowed to continue, will destroy the planet. Through figurative comparisons, hypothetical strategies and second person point of view, Solinit strives to engrave in the minds of her audience the lasting…

This article makes an interesting contribution to the debate about inequality in a certain society and extend to how environmental policy can get involved. Over the past decades, economic and social development has been a key to indicate a nation’s well-being which inequality and environmental issues were not much concerned. The author’s main contention that if an inequality’s degree is low, there would have high requirement for effective environmental policies. As a result, theses policies will…

Depositional environment: The Depositional environment throughout the Cooper Basin formations is wholly non-marine, with the Patchawarra formation being a fluvial/deltaic depositional environment, with point-bar sandstones the most common reservoir type. Trap structures: Traps in the Cooper Basin are recognised as being structural e.g Anticlines, Stratigraphic e.g. facies change or a combination of these. Most traps in the Patchawarra formation are combination traps and lie somewhere between…

General Information Global Warming is an important topic to address because the Ozone layer is crumbling and if we let it get out of control the world will be a very different and unlivable place. The United States is the second country in the world to emit the most greenhouse gases. II. Specifies The United States views global warming as a very important issue. Global Warming has hurt the US by causing more fires, breakouts of insects, and extreme heat in the most unusual places.…

Global climate change has been defines as “a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.” (google definition, 2015) Global warming is the increase of the Earth’s surface temperature caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, CFCs, and other pollutants. The Earth is getting warmer because people are adding…