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http://whyfiles.org/238earthday/ Use this link to answer the questions that follow: 4. What is increased burning of fossil fuels doing to our ocean? 5. What could happen if pteropods die off? 6.
Cox says that we need to reduce the use of air conditioning because it uses fuel to work and burning fuel results in pollution (Cox 344). Air conditioning is one of those technologies which cause global warming due to adding green house gases in the environment. But Cox neglects the benefits of having air conditioning. For instance, AC not only helps to maintain room temperature, but it also removes extra moisture from the air. (“AC also helps to clean the air by removing dust particles in the air”).
Sea levels are rising. Our oceans are becoming more acidic. And we've already seen its effects on weather patterns, our food and water sources, our health and our habitats. Every nation on this planet is at risk, and just as no one nation is responsible for climate change, no one nation can address it alone” (Obama, 2009) . The next viewpoint comes from China they said if we look at the world’s development history that the environmental challenges that developed countries encountered in phases.
Human progress caused global warming; human progress should be used to counteract it and its continually devastating effects. There are three crucial elements linked to the rise in sea levels, and all are results of global climate change (National Geographic). According to recent data, the three main contributors that are responsible, in order of importance, include the melting of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, thermal expansion of the oceans, and mountain glacier melting (Pilkey, Young, 2008). Thermal expansion occurs when the Earth’s water heats up and it begins to expand. Reports have shown that since the year 1960, thermal expansion alone was responsible for about 25%
There was a series of aftershocks from this earthquake since the original hit, some registering over 6 on the Richter scale. Affects of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Introduction The Tohoku Earthquake is the most destructive Japanese earthquake since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. This earthquake created a tsunami that reached almost 40m high in some places. The magnitude of the earthquake combined with the destructive forces of the tsunami killed over 15 000 people and caused an estimated 309 billion USD in damages. (USGS Report, 2012) This earthquake was so powerful that it even caused ice shelves in Antarctica to break off into the ocean.
Since the beginning of time there has been changes in weather, climate, and the earth itself has changed as well. After being in this Environmental class even through my own ideas about the situation, in terms of the world and its environment, I have come to realize as many scientists already have said that it is the human races fault for the increase in temperature all over the world. We continue to burn fossil fuels and other non-renewable forms of energy and it is doing bad things to our environment. One of those things that is being affected most by this misuse and abuse of fossil fuels is our climate. Our climate has changed dramatically over the years and we are beginning to see the consequences of this abuse we have done to mother earth.