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Thorium Nuclear Power as a Climate Change Solution

Explores thorium nuclear power as a safer, cleaner alternative to uranium reactors, examining its advantages, challenges, and potential benefits for humanity.

Environment

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692 words

The role of greenhouse gases in climate change and mitigation strategies

As of late, global warming has been in the headlines. After Climategate questioned current assumptions about the main driver in Earth's climate, original decrees that "debate is over" have not held as much sway as beforehand.

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Ruddiman's argument that humans caused early climate change

Ruddiman's principal claim is that human effect on climate change did not begin in the 1800s as most scientists accept, but began thousands of years before in slow gradual changes whose impact equals that of the Industrial Revolution. He supports this claim in various ways.

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Oil industry strategies for responding to climate change and global warming

Over the last several decades the issue of global warming has been increasingly brought to the forefront. Part of the reason for this is the changes in the environment that are being seen around the globe worldwide.

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7,690 words

Prisoner's dilemma and international cooperation on climate change

Global warming reached alarming levels and governments from all over the world need to gather in a united front to fight the process. Sooner or later, all countries will be obliged to enter this fight, leaving all divergences and interests aside, as global warming affects everyone more or less.

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Taxing global warming as a solution to climate change

You might begin this with an informal response to surface what you think about it, which can lead to an initial argument position.

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650 words

Robert Frank's argument on climate change costs and consequences

Small Price for a Large Benefit' which was published on New York Times on Twentieth February of this year by Robert Frank. The link for this article is http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/business/economy/21view.html.

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1,672 words

The Copenhagen Accord and international climate change negotiations

From December 7-18, more than 15,000 people including Government officials and advisers from 192 nations, civil society and the media from nearly every country in the world, came together in the Danish capital, Copenhagen in one of the most significant gatherings in history.

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1,126 words

William K. Stevens and the IPCC on climate change reporting evolution

In his unique New York Times article, "On the Climate Change Beat, Doubt Gives Way to Certainty," retired Times reporter William K. Stevens recalls his work in climate change reporting, documenting how scientific knowledge on the topic has changed from his first days in the newsroom until today.

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1,150 words

Globalization and global community responses to climate change, peak oil, and energy conflicts

Globalization and the Need for Global Community Response: An Exploration of Three Case Studies In his discussion of the beginnings of globalization, economists O'Rourke and Williamson compare the creation of a global community to the creation of the world, with economists taking a more recent "big…

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