Essay Undergraduate 1,874 words

Climate Change Modeling: Science vs. Skepticism Debate

An analysis of climate change modeling debates between physicist S. Fred Singer and climatologist Tom Wigley, examining computer model reliability and warming impacts.

Science

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,069 words

Climate Change: The Greatest Challenge for American Planning

Explores how climate change — urban heat islands, wind shifts, precipitation, and tree mortality — will define the greatest challenges for American urban planning.

Environment

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,814 words

Climate Change Ethics: Justice, Policy, and Cap-and-Trade

Explores climate change ethics through distributive justice, mitigation, adaptation, abatement resistance, and the cap-and-trade emissions trading system.

Ethics

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,223 words

Climate Change, Vector-Borne Disease, and Global Food Security

Explores how climate change spreads vector-borne diseases like West Nile virus and worsens food insecurity, comparing health impacts in the US and Bulgaria.

Health

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,054 words

Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Global Food Security

Explores how climate change, energy use, natural disasters, conflict, agriculture, and food security are interconnected in a complex global system.

Environment

~6 min read

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1,790 words

Climate change and greenhouse gases' effects on stratospheric ozone recovery

Waugh et al. (2009) investigated the effects that climate change has on he recovery period and rate of stratospheric ozone.

~9 min read

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1,093 words

Climate change impacts on vulnerable economies and food security

Global warming is mainly seen by the scientific community as a global process in which "glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace.

~6 min read

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1,080 words

Separating scientific fact from conjecture in climate change debate

The issue of climate change -- of human caused global warming, to be exact -- has been the subject of much debate among politicians and scientists alike.

~6 min read

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1,023 words

Climate change and infectious disease as preventable global disasters

The great American scientist Benjamin Franklin mentioned an old proverb - "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure." Two current events affecting the world could learn from this wise adage.

~6 min read

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1,584 words

Climate change as a global security threat and policy challenge

Global Warming is a crisis that the whole world is going to have to deal with soon. In the United Nations climate change is being debated for the first time.

~8 min read

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