StudyWorks! Online : Global Warming global warming. Is human activity partly responsible for current warming trends? What s the global warming debate all about? http://www.studyworksonline.com/cda/explorations/main/0,,NAV2-79,00.html
Extractions: Algebra Explorations Astronomy Biology Chemistry ... Sports Investigate the methods researchers use to study ancient and current climate patterns. Using that information, analyze and critique materials on different websites. On the way, you'll learn to read critically and most importantly to think critically. An accompanying teacher guide provides additional questions and activities. Global Warming Experts Speak Imagine yourself as an inquisitive detective. You've heard rumors and news reports about global warming, but you're just not sure whom to believe. You're going to begin with some investigative reporting, and you need to decide what your best detective's approach will be. What sorts of questions can you ask, and how will you go about finding the information you need to answer your questions? What facts would it take to convince you one way or the other? Start your investigation by examining some false stories that have appeared in the media, like eggs standing on end only on the vernal equinox. Your investigation begins here . . .
MoveOn.org: Democracy In Action Al Gore Speaks on global warming and the Environment. Beacon Theater, New York January 15, 2004, Noon. Thank you, Carol, Joan and Peter. global warming is real. http://www.moveon.org/gore3/speech.html
Extractions: I want to say a special word about Joan Blades, who traveled from California for this event and who, along with her husband, Wes Boyd, co-founded Moveon.org. She has been from the beginning a moving force behind the emergence of this dynamic new grassroots movement in American politics and public policy. I have made a series of speeches about the policies of the Bush / Cheney Administration towards the major challenges that confront our nation: national security, economic policy, civil liberties, and today: the environment. In essence, these scientists are telling the people of every nation that global warming caused by human activities is becoming a serious threat to our common future. I am also troubled that the Bush/Cheney Administration does not seem to hear the warnings of the scientific community in the same way that most of us do. Here is what we are talking about: PICTURES 1 THROUGH 8
Extractions: The Department of Energy's decision to drop early credits from its proposed rule to revise the voluntary reporting of greenhouse gases program was a policy breakthrough as significant as the Senate's defeat of the McCain-Lieberman bill and EPA's disavowal of authority to regulate carbon dioxide. In this comment to DOE, CEI and ten other pro-market groups explain why DOE made the right decision and should resist lobbying pressures to reinstate Kyoto credits.
Global Warming Don t miss these informative links to a variety of global warmingrelated web resources. Search. Weather, global warming Guide picks. http://weather.about.com/cs/globalwarming/
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Riverdeep | EarthScience Center Interactive site features the work and opinions of several scientists studying global warming and its impacts. http://www.riverdeep.net/earthpulse/data/globalwarming/globalwarming_lab.html
Extractions: The Riverdeep EarthScience Center is an online scientific research center for studying information about and gaining understanding of the major physical events that impact our changing Earth. It has been designed to fit well with the middle school earth and atmospheric science curriculum, but it can be used and enjoyed by students of all ages. Important Note to Existing EarthScience Users: If you installed SimPlayer before October 11, 2001, you will need to reinstall the latest plug-in . Users with the latest plug-in may enter now If you are a first-time visitor and wish to engage in the interactive activities, you must first install three plug-ins onto your computer: Flash, QuickTime, and SimPlayer. If you do not already have Flash or QuickTime on your computer, you must install them now. Visit their download centers using the links to the right. To install SimPlayer, enter
Global Warming Webquest Introduction. As the year 2000 approaches, the president has decided to form a committee to serve as his consultants on the issue of global warming. http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/formats/webquests/summer99/northside/global_warm
NET.org >> WARMING global warming. Introduction. What is the US doing about global warming? The Bush Administration, unfortunately, has turned its back on the problem. http://environet.policy.net/warming/
Extractions: GLOBAL WARMING Global Warming is perhaps the most significant environmental problem facing the world today. Greenhouse gas levels are increasing in the atmosphere because of human activities, and are changing the composition of the atmosphere and warming the earth. Climate scientists agree that human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels contribute to the problem. Scientists have predicted the phenomemon of global warming for decades. Unfortunately, some of the adverse impacts (link to impacts page) from global warming that they also predicted are starting to occur around the world, including: Increasing incidence of droughts in some areas, flooding in others;
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Public Web Page Salt Levels Changing in the Oceans Saltier tropical oceans and fresher ocean waters near the poles are further signs of global warming s impacts on the planet. http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/hottopics_climatechange.html
TIME.com: Global Warming Click here to visit our advertiser. Special Features. http://www.time.com/time/2001/globalwarming/splash.html
Encyclopedia Of The Atmospheric Environment A onestop source of information, for younger and older users alike, on a range of atmospheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion. Provided by the UK Government Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/
Washingtonpost.com SEARCH Top 20 Emailed Articles, NATION global warming. NEWS. Politics. NATION. Search the States. Special Reports. global warming. Photo Galleries. Live Discussions. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/science/climatechange/
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Plant Trees To Reduce Global Warming Calculations of carbon dioxide emissions are offered for various modes of travel and energy use (1 tree per 1000 kilowatthours, for example). http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/globalcooling/
Extractions: Relax. Reduce what you can and plant trees in the tropics to absorb the rest. This book focuses on the three actions you can take to cool the planet. These Global Cooling actions are: 1) Use fossil fuels more efficiently and switch to renewable fuels; 2) Protect old-growth trees and rainforest as warehouses for carbon and harvest existing forests in a sustainable manner; and 3) Plant trees in the tropics to offset the carbon dioxide that we produce.
Global Change /Climate Change NASA Facts. global warming. Global Change/Climate Change. The prediction of climate change due to human activities began with a prediction http://www.maui.net/~jstark/nasa.html
Extractions: The prediction of climate change due to human activities began with a prediction made by the Swedish chemist, Svante Arrhenius, in 1896. Arrhenius took note of the industrial revolution then getting underway and realized that the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere was increasing. Moreover, he believed carbon dioxide concentrations would continue to increase as the world's consumption of fossil fuels, particularly coal, increased ever more rapidly. His understanding of the role of carbon dioxide in heating Earth, even at that early date, led him to predict that if atmospheric carbon dioxide doubled, Earth would become several degrees warmer. However, little attention was paid to what must have been seen to be a rather far-out prediction that had no apparent consequence for people living at that time. (Click here for full image) Caption: A simplified diagram illustrating the greenhouse effect Nearly 100 years after the Arrhenius prediction, we are now aware that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, with the likelihood that it will double by the middle of the next century from the levels at the time of Arrhenius. Post-World War II industrialization has caused a dramatic jump in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As the prospect of considerable change in the atmosphere becomes more real and threatening, new computer models are being applied to the problem. These models take into account the natural processes that must be part of the whole picture to understand what could happen to Earth's climate as carbon dioxide increases. An important aspect of the newer models is their treatment of the "amplifier" or feedback effect, in which further changes in the atmosphere occur in response to the warming initiated by the change in carbon dioxide.
Extractions: Letter from Frederick Seitz Research Review of Global Warming Evidence Below is an eight page review of information on the subject of "global warming," and a petition in the form of a reply card. Please consider these materials carefully. The United States is very close to adopting an international agreement that would ration the use of energy and of technologies that depend upon coal, oil, and natural gas and some other organic compounds. This treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful. The proposed agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.
Beakman & Jax - Global Warming global warming. Question What does cutting down trees have to do with saving the ozone layer global warming. WHAT YOU NEED 2 empty jars water. http://www.beakman.com/beakman/warm/warm.html
Extractions: Not much at all! Except that both are happening on Earth and both seem to have been created by humans, there is nothing that cutting down trees has to do with the ozone layer. The media - like newspapers and stupid jokes on TV - explained it very, very badly. They make it seem as though the two things are connected. But they are not! Tell as many people as You Can. Tell them they've got it all wrong! Read this and then explain it to them. Again, the ozone layer and global warming are 2 separate things. They are caused by 2 separate things humans do to the planet. They are not related. Each one is a very big problem. We can't solve either one of them until we can all understand what's going on. So read this and then start talking about it to whoever will listen. Global Warming WHAT YOU NEED:
ThinkQuest : Library : Heat Watch Interactive learning center designed to help students understand the problem of global warming. A Thinkquest site. http://library.thinkquest.org/17471/
Extractions: Index Earth Science Why was 1998 the hottest year on record? This site concisely explains what global warming is, the causes, the dangers, suggests possible solutions, and allows you to quiz yourself on the material. There are technical links to verify the information with the experts, find out the latest, and to interact with others. It could also be tied into a conservation unit. This site is also in Dutch. Visit Site 1998 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Languages English Dutch Students Michael Minnetonka High School, Minnetonka, MN, United States Gijs Greijdanus College Zwolle, Zwolle, Netherlands Chris Greijdanus College Zwolle, Zwolle, Netherlands Coaches Dawn Minnetonka High School, Minnetonka, MN, United States Feike Greijdanus College Zwolle, Zwolle, Netherlands Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world. Click here to learn how you can build a ThinkQuest site. Privacy Policy
Global Warming:A Chilling Perspective global warming A Chilling Perspective. global warming started long before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of the internal combustion engine. http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
Extractions: A Chilling Perspective A Brief History of Ice Ages and Warming Causes of Global Climate Change Playing with Numbers A Matter of Opinion Unraveling the Earth's Temperature Record Stopping Climate Change G lobal warming started long before the "Industrial Revolution" and the invention of the internal combustion engine. Global warming began 18,000 years ago as the earth started warming it's way out of the Pleistocene Ice Age a time when much of North America, Europe, and Asia lay buried beneath great sheets of glacial ice. Earth's climate and the biosphere have been in constant flux, dominated by ice ages and glaciers for the past several million years. We are currently enjoying a temporary reprieve from the deep freeze. Approximately every 100,000 years Earth's climate warms up temporarily. These warm periods, called interglacial periods , appear to last approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years before regressing back to a cold ice age climate. At year 18,000 and counting our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age is much nearer it's end than it's beginning. Global warming during Earth's current interglacial warm period has greatly altered our environment and the distribution and diversity of all life. For example:
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004® Visit Our Advertisers. XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JAN 14, 2004 193909 ET XXXXX GORE TO WARN OF global warming ON NEW YORK CITY S COLDEST DAY IN DECADES! http://www.drudgereport.com/agwarm.htm
Extractions: Even though forecasters predict Thursday night will bring the coldest temperature reading in New York City in more than 10 years [1 degree above zero], sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT that Gore is determined to deliver the speech hoping to make the case how "Global warming" is actually the cause of the record cold snap!
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 SILVER SPRING, Maryland (CNN) President Bush Thursday unveiled a series of tax credits and other incentives to encourage business and farmers to reduce harmful emissions, a less stringent alternative to the international Kyoto treaty he rejected last year. "America and the world share this common goal, we must foster economic growth in ways that protect our environment," Bush said at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. "We must encourage growth that will provide a better life for citizens, while protecting the land, the water, the air that sustain life." But some Democrats, including former Vice President Al Gore, and environmental groups greeted the plan with criticism, noting that it was voluntary in nature. VIDEO CNN's Major Garrett reports the White House hopes tax incentives will convince industry to cut carbon dioxide emissions (February 14)
