Permafrost

Mr./Madam President, I rise today for the 160th time to again ask this chamber to wake up to the mounting evidence of climate change. In the coming decades demand for food, water, and energy will grow by approximately 35, 40, and 50 percent around the globe. Climate change will worsen the outlook for the availability of these critical resources. The severity of existing weather patterns will intensify, with wet areas getting wetter and dry and arid areas becoming more so. This extreme…

The Warm Blue Dot: Evidence for Anthropological Global Warming Introduction Throughout the long history of the Earth, the global climate has fluctuated drastically, ranging from tropical to glacial. In the mid-18th century, the Industrial Revolution began, and humanity began a bilateral campaign: one waged with the goal of achieving a prosperous, industrialized future, and another, inadvertently waged against the environment. The purpose of this literature review is to examine the influence of…

Five times in the history of Earth, mass extinctions of unimaginable death scale almost wiped out most of the life on the planet. The last event occurred 65 million years ago when Earth was impacted by an asteroid killing the dinosaurs and other organisms (70 per cent of the species). The deadliest of these extinction events happened more than 252 million years ago. The event is known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event or the “Great Dying” that killed around 90 per cent of all species on…

INTRO With the rise in climate throughout the State of Alaska creating problems especially within the rural villages, the city of Anchorage is in the heart of most of the energy production, as well as the North Slope Region. From manufacturing, natural resources in oil to creating energy from all forms (hydro, solar, wind, etc.), a solution to produce more energy for the city of Anchorage is essential. Energy production is the most crucial element when it comes to creating power and resources…

When most people think of climate change, they think of polar bears and melting ice caps. Most people do not think of the families in North Dakota who lost their homes to floodwaters in 2009 or the twenty million people left homeless after the catastrophic 2010 monsoon in Pakistan. However, these disasters are the real consequences of climate change that we are facing. Climate change is the warming of our planet to dangerous temperatures as a result of the accumulation of greenhouse gases…

land than over the seas, more at the posts than the equator, more in winter than in summer and more during the evening than at day. Extraordinary deluges have turned out to be more basic. In the ice, ice and snow cover less region, and methane-rich permafrost soils are starting to soften. The climate is getting more bizarre, with tempests energized by the extra warmth" (Caldeira 78). In spite of the fact that the indications of unnatural a dangerous atmospheric deviation are very apparent, many…

One of the biggest controversial topics in the media today is global warming. Whether it is politicians claiming it is a hoax or a new “scientific article” on why global warming is a natural process the earth goes through every couple hundred thousand years. On the other side of the scale, there are groups demanding that the government help regulate air pollution from natural gas and CO2 emissions caused from burning oil. These people just get pushed aside most times and ignored. Or they do not…

A man goes to see his local clinician. He reports that he has the flu; nothing too serious at the first thought. He did not plan to see a doctor, but in the past few days he has become too weak to work and that morning started to cough up blood. He contemplated whether he should go to the hospital, but he remembered the news saying that there was an overflow of patients and a rather large proportion waited for hours to receive treatment, so he resorted to the clinic His doctor sadly explains…

understanding of predator and prey relationships and how humans fit into this context including understanding animal health and migration patterns. Climate change in some instances has caused for the abandonment of settlements due to the disappearance of permafrost, while other communities suffer from loss of protection during winter storms that ice once provided. Climate change impacts Inuit culture due to reducing sea ice, the breakup of ice sheets, early onset of spring seasons and more.…

Although it wasn’t until fairly recently that humans have been severely impacted by climate change, the issue was been present for over a hundred years. The first scientist to conclude that burning fossil fuels in the quantity at which we were doing so would eventually result in elevated mean annual global temperature was Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 (Enzler, 2014). In the early 1900s, other scientists believed that the Earth was experiencing global cooling trends until Stephen…