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87Earth's Temperature: A Brief History of Recent Changes
Changes in Earth's temperature used to be caused by changes in sunlight, which in turn were caused by irregularities in the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Now, however, temperature changes are caused by changes in atmospheric greenhouse gases released by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels.
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73Pollution and global warming
There are many who deny that industrialisation, cars, planes, ships, war and other pollution is having an adverse effect on the Earth and its weather patterns. They appear to be of the opinion that weather...
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79What's Happening To Our Planet?
According to many scientists, our planet is warming rapidly. Some studies show that the average surface temperature is 1 degree Fahrenheit warmer than it was in the year 1900. This did not seem like a big...
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78Ways to improve your carbon footprint in 2009
A carbon footprint is the total amount of GHG (greenhouse gases) emissions, assessed in carbon dioxide units (tonnes of CO2 equivalent / year), caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization,...
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72Man Induced Global Warming Fraud
I have been following the global warming debate for some time. As a 7th grade teacher I had students graph Earths temperature during various epochs of time. We considered magnitudes of 10, ten years, 100...
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76Can we reverse global warming?
Can we reverse climate change? If people were the sole cause of global warming then the answer would be a qualified yes, the qualifier is, would we? Does the political and social...
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74Bigfoot: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with Smart Driving
We love our cars. We love to take road trips, go shopping, spend the day at the beach, and take in the sights, all from the comfort of our cars. It seems a safe, reliable and friendly way to get around, but cars are the biggest contributer of carbon emissions. What you can do.
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67What on Earth Is Climate Change
The second in a series of articles exploring global warming, climate change, causes and effect, asking a lot of questions. In this article I explain how the earth gets warmth, how global warming affects climate and causes changes, and also what kind of changes we see and can expect.
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69Earth Science Report: “The Greenhouse Effect”
Earth Science Report: "The Greenhouse Effect" What's the deal with this "greenhouse effect"? What basically is the Greenhouse Effect? Why is it called greenhouse? What's its difference with the greenhouses...
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68What can Mayor Bloomberg do to help reduce NYC carbon emissions?
New York City mayor Bloomberg announced that “thousands of buildings in New York will be forced to install energy-efficient light bulbs, low-flow faucets and other energy-saving devices to reduce the...
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