CQ Researcher: Climate Change: Is tougher action needed to slow rising temperatures?Clemmitt’s article reviews the seriousness of climate change and the irreversibility of the impacts of carbon emissions in light of actions taken by governments around the world, and finds their efforts to be lacking in terms of the possible...
Today global warming is one of the most challenging environmental difficulties experienced across the world. It threatens the health and wellbeing of the global inhabitants and global economies. As a result of global warming, we are currently experiencing intense heat and storms across the world. Along these whether changes experienced...
Global warming is the slight increase in earth temperatures which includes its atmosphere and the temperature of the oceans as well. This rise in global temperatures is said to be caused by some human activities that lead to emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases include carbon...
According to Rahul Kakkara, global warming is steady rise in the temperatures of the earth surface including ice caps and oceans largely attributed increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the temperature of the earth’s surface has increased by...
Introduction A gradual increase in the average earth temperature as a result of an increase in greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide and methane) levels is a phenomenon referred to as global warming. The term global warming has been coined mostly by the press in arguments that have ended in some even...
The study of mass water flows or currents is critical to appreciating how heat energy is cycled between the earth’s atmosphere, landmasses, and water bodies. More than 70% of the world is covered by ocean, which in turn holds more than 95% of the world’s total water making oceans a...
Article 1 Summary: California snowpack lowest in past 500 years The scientific study highlighting a significant drop in snow pack mainly concluded that the significant reduction in spring mountain snowpack which supply’s California with fresh water indicates a low unmatched for the first time in 500 years; and also an...
Introduction It is almost impossible to separate the scientific, economic and political implications from the massive social impact that climate change is already having on our global population. This is the ultimate concern for me; the wellbeing of all people and the likelihood that huge numbers of people will have...
Craig Welch is an environment writer at National Geographic. He has been writing about environmental issues for 14 years and is the author of ‘Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn’.In his article, ‘Global Warming Is Real—But 13 Degrees? Not So Fast’, he investigates the likelihood of recent claims by scientists that...
