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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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Human hunting and late Pleistocene megafauna extinction

The end of the last ice age was marked by the extinction of hundreds of species of large mammals.

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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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Garrett Hardin's tragedy of the commons and resource depletion

Down through the ages, societies have made use of common goods and resources for the benefit of all.

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The Kyoto Protocol and international failure to address global warming

The reality of global warming can no longer be denied. Some of the harsh consequences of global warming on water, food production, health, and the environment are already apparent as our earth warms because of greenhouse gases.

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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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Addressing the greenhouse effect through technology and legislation

Over a century has passed since Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist, theorized that the unchecked burning of fossil fuels would act to trap heat within the earth's atmosphere.

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Global warming as a serious environmental threat of the 21st century

Global warming represents the single major environmental problem of the 21st century. The industrial revolution is not without its price. Man's quest for development has contributed to environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources.

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