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Comparing command-and-control and incentive-based climate regulations

According to Johnson (2010), the issue of climate change has been hotly debated from two main viewpoints: that global warming has resulted from human activity on the one hand; and that it is a myth resulting from flawed research and unverified scientific findings.

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Global Warming: Media Coverage, Scientific Consensus, and Policy Response

Examines media portrayal of climate change, scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming, and the need for local and international policy action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Mangrove Restoration in the Indian River Lagoon

Explores climate change threats to Indian River Lagoon mangroves and proposes a 200-acre replanting project near Fort Pierce, Florida, with cost-benefit analysis.

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Merchants of Doubt vs. Living in Denial: Climate Denial Compared

A comparative analysis of Oreskes & Conway's Merchants of Doubt and Norgaard's Living in Denial, exploring the causes of climate change denial.

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Behavioral changes and household actions to reduce global warming

What is Global Warming? The world's climate has been changing since the late 19th century and it has been changing dramatically for the past fifty years, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Is Nuclear Power a Viable Alternative to Fossil Fuels?

Examines whether nuclear energy can replace fossil fuels, weighing climate change evidence, plant economics, radioactive waste, and the Fukushima disaster.

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Domestic climate policy in the United States

The late 20th and early 21st brought a significant change to global political and economic policy which directly affected any political or social policy towards ecology and climate issues. The concept of globalization in economic and cultural development is a reality for the 21st century.

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Remote sensing satellites for detecting glacier and ice sheet changes

The objective of this work is to evaluate the role that remote sensing (satellite images) has played in studies of climate change.

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Climate variability's economic impact on Lima and Canberra

There are six references used for this paper. The world is currently undergoing a number of changes both in terms of the climate and the economy. It is important to look at Lima, Peru and Canberra, Australia and determine what effect the changing climates could have on the economies there.

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Climate impacts of six degrees of global warming

Essay Prompt For this assignment, you will watch the National Geographic Documentary – ‘Six° Degrees Could Change the World’ and answer the questions

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