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Ruddiman's hypothesis that humans prevented an ice age through early agriculture

The scientific arguments for humans affecting climate change seem to be all around us today in the news and in conversations.

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China's investment in green companies and renewable energy

China' s Investment in Green Companies Introduction Climate change is one of the major issues facing the world today – arguably the most important one of them all.

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Carbon dioxide emissions from commercial air travel in the Pacific Northwest

STRICTLY for the BIRDS? Climate change has been largely attributed to fuel emissions (Murray and Durning 2004). Little is known about the environmental effects of air travel. Flight uses fuel per passenger and per mile almost as heavily as driving on land.

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REDD scheme architecture and baseline establishment for avoided deforestation

Forests are at the major agendas of international climate change, with the strong discussions about the 'avoided deforestation' scheme, which is known as REDD (Reductions of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation).

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The Kyoto Protocol's origins in European Union advocacy

Kyoto Protocol and the European Union have a long and important connection. The Protocol was designed to reduce carbon emission and grew out of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change.

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Global warming's effects on ecosystems and human communities

Studies have shown that human activities like burning of fossil fuels and deforestation have a great impact on our planet, causing emissions of greenhouse gases and determining changes in the climate system: heat waves, increases in rainfall, increase in intensity of many extreme climate events,…

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Solar energy as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels

The threats posed by our relationship to energy has given rise to some devastating results on a global and a personal scale like human-induced climate change, famine, poverty and cycles of deforestation; all these while on our overzealous appetite search for energy.

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Waste management and sustainability in the Coed Darcy development project

This Government in Darcy is really committed to making sure that everything stays green. How the company deals with their waste is vital for a range of broader distresses for example material security, climate change energy, and environmental protection.

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Sustainable urban drainage systems in the Coed Darcy regeneration project

Human activity is the major cause of the surge in green house gas releases (IPCC 2007). These gases are a contributing factor to the climate change that has different implications in different regions. For instance, hot dry summers and colder wetter winters are more likely than before.

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Global warming skepticism despite scientific consensus and evidence

Global Warming -- it Is Authentic, but Why So Many Skeptics? The phrases "global warming" and "climate change" have become household words over the past twenty years or so, and given the vast amount of discussion and research, and the clear signs that the planet is hearing up, an alert citizen can…

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