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Global Warming and Climate Change: Causes and Consequences

An overview of global warming and climate change: definitions, causes, environmental impacts, economic effects, and policy responses needed to address the crisis.

Environment

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Canada's Climate Change Policy and Foreign Policy Role

Examines Canada's climate change policy from Kyoto ratification under Chrétien to Conservative-era retreat, exploring shifts in international reputation and domestic action.

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Learning Styles and Climate Change Writing Assignments

Explores how a climate change writing-to-learn assignment aligns with Kolb, Fleming & Mills, and Felder & Silverman learning style frameworks.

Education

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Ruddiman's anthropogenic climate change theory and scientific evidence

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: William F. Ruddiman's Evidence for Long-Term Anthropogenic Climate Change A family huddles together for warmth in a the center of an especially thin-walled thatch hut, the sputtering fire little warmth to combat the wind that finds its cold and hungry way into every…

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Barriers to U.S. climate change legislation and international cooperation

Republican opposition to such a bill, especially in the Senate, has been quite stringent, and several Democratic members of Congress have also joined in opposition to the passing of cap-and-trade and other emissions-oriented legislation.

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Carbon management policy for climate change mitigation in the UK

The aim of this green paper is to improve carbon management, helping the transition towards a low- carbon economy in the UK.

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987 words

Public opinion on climate change and media influence

What are the effects of global warming that scientists can identify today? This is an important question to be taken into account as humans struggle to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere -- the principal cause of climate change.

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Political philosophers debate climate change, healthcare, and Afghanistan

Such understanding gives perspective that may not be available when merely weighing problems from the limits of today's major lines of thinking.

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Government regulation of climate change and economic trade-offs

The liberalists sustain the idea according to which the market finds its own resources to regulate itself, thanks to the market forces.

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1,703 words

Human activities and climate change: causes, predictions, and mitigation

In the past decade, both world history and the world landscape have been transformed by various natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tsunamis', earthquakes, and unseasonably warm winters. Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate.

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