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Ocean Currents Pacific Ocean
348 wordsSticking with the theme of ocean currents, (from portfolio # 2), I will reflect on Jan Kay? s Dec. 4, 2000 article titled? Warming taking food from Pacific. ? This article was retrieved from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. According to this article, warmer waters and changing ocean currents within the Pacific Ocean maybe causing a decline in plankton. Ocean plankton are the food source for many larger ocean creatures. According to a 50 year study, conducted by California Cooperative Fisheries In...
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Nitrous Oxide Greenhouse Gasses
3,082 wordsThe Global Warming Global Warming The world is getting hotter. 1998 was the hottest in one thousand years, and the nine hottest years on record have all been in the past two decades. Humankind's actions on a global scale have changed not just the landscape of the Earth, but the worlds climate too. Increasingly sophisticated measurements of the worlds climate and weather systems have provided a wealth of evidence that the Earth has been getting steadily warmer. Since the beginning of the industri...
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Global Warming Chesapeake Bay
2,447 wordsLillian Global Warming Page 1 Lillian Bromstein Ms. Fink Chemistry 1 / 1 / 00 Global Warming In nature s infinite book of secrecy a little I can read. -William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Christianson 210). It starts with heat. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, it starts to get hotter. The increase in average temperatures is gradual; what we notice are the scorching spikes, as heat records fall one after another. Winters are milder, but punctuated by deluges and blizzards. Spring starts early...
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Stop Global Warming Increase In The Number
1,553 wordsThere are many problems concerning the environment. Pollution, destruction of the rainforests, and the consumption of all of our planets natural resources are just a few. None of these issues quite compare to the problem of global warming. Global warming is a problem that affects not just some people, but everything and everyone. People must take action to stop global warming and must realize the severity of this problem before it is too late. The future depends on what we do now to slow the pro...
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Burning Fossil Fuels Natural Greenhouse Effect
3,312 wordsThe Greenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect, as defined in the dictionary, is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earths atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. Even though this process occurs naturally and has kept the Earths temperature about 60 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it would otherwise be, current life on Earth could not be sustained with...
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