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Causes and impacts of accelerated global warming trends

Global warming is a phenomenon that has many opinions, from the scientific, to the political, to the ridiculous. A major rift between the more rational arguments has been the question of whether global warming is actually occurring or if the earth is simply in a geologic time of natural warming.

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Remote sensing technologies for monitoring coral reef health and conservation

Remote sensing can be utilized in order to give succinct information regarding the arrangement and the constituents of coral reef materials. The biological and physical attributes of the water bodies in which the coral reefs exist are monitored over a period of time and the changes note.

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Extreme weather events and ocean warming as evidence of global warming

Many of these weather patterns are related to El Nino or La Nina storms, which are two-to-eight-year weather patterns where changing wind streams pick up warm surface water from the oceans and increases humidity, according to Tim Flannery in his 2005 book The Weather Makers.

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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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Global warming: causes, effects, and scientific evidence

Many environmental experts as well as scientists and medical experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the effects of global warming over the past few decades.

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The greenhouse effect and global warming from carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide and other gases cause a greenhouse effect that affects the planet's temperature, which may contribute global warming.

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Arctic sovereignty and resource competition in the far north

Early 20th century explorer Vilhalmur Stefannson was correct in his assertion that the Arctic was essentially a treasure chest of natural resources, and in his corresponding prediction that the far North would become a vital national interest for Canada and the British Empire.

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Human population, urbanization, industrialization, and global warming

It will first discuss human population as a cause for environmental degradation by also relating to afferent effects. It will then bring into equation urbanization and industrialization which are closely linked.

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Obama Energy Policy: Goals, Criticisms, and Green Future

Analyzes Obama's energy policy goals, including clean energy investment, cap-and-trade, and fuel standards, alongside key economic and environmental criticisms.

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National interests and conflicts in post-Kyoto climate agreements

International Conflict for Post-Kyoto: Which countries will benefit and lose national interests from the regulation of CO2?

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