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Does human activity cause global warming? A data analysis

Does the data available about the earth's average temperatures support the contention that the earth is getting warmer? Do the temperature data and data about carbon dioxide and fossil fuel emissions suggest that the warming trend is due to greenhouse gases, and is related to human activities?

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An inconvenient truth: evaluating Al Gore's documentary claims

Director Davis Guggenheim's (2006) documentary featuring former Vice President, Al Gore, an Inconvenient Truth, documents the former vice president's campaign against global warming.

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Tropical deforestation causes, environmental impacts, and prevention strategies

Deforestation is occurring around the world today, and it is permanently killing forests and woodlands in many countries, but especially in the tropical areas of the world.

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The greenhouse effect, global warming, and individual environmental action

Explain the greenhouse effect. What are the most important greenhouse gases? Like a greenhouse, the earth's atmosphere uses heat from the sun. Certain gases in the earth's atmosphere like water vapors, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane trap the sun's energy.

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Al Gore's use of authority and semantic arguments in An Inconvenient Truth

As a former vice president of the United States, and someone who has a passion for the environment and his research on the environment won him an academy award, then people should pay close attention to the scientific facts he is sharing with people in his award winning documentary, an Inconvenient…

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Global warming impacts on coastal cities and rising sea levels

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found evidence derived from all over the world which shows people, plants and animals are being affected by regional climate changes, especially increases in temperature.

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Al Gore's rhetorical strategies in An Inconvenient Truth

Narrated by former Vice President Al Gore, David Guggenheim's 2006 documentary an Inconvenient Truth is immediately compelling because of its celebrity profile.

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Global warming's effects on crop production and rainfall patterns

As global warming makes temperatures rise witnessed will be a decrease in crop production.

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The Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters: nuclear power's risks and benefits

There are positives and negatives with any energy source that humankind chooses to utilize. Coal, for example, emits pollutants that contribute to climate change, whereas hydropower can disrupt river flows and place man-made obstacles in the way of river life.

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Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and environmental awareness activism

Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim and featuring former Vice President Al Gore as he attempts to raise social awareness regarding the growing effects, and future consequences, of global warming.

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