global warming

Examples of global warming in the following topics:

• Environmental Problems Associated with Fossil Fuel Use

  • One of the major environmental problems associated with fossil fuel use is global warming.
  • Other likely effects of global warming include a more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, and heavy rainfall.
  • Proposed policy responses to global warming include mitigation by emissions reduction, adaptation to its effects, and possible future geoengineering.
  • Parties to the UNFCCC have adopted a range of policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to assist in adaptation to global warming.
  • This group has agreed that deep cuts in emissions are required, and that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level.

• Climate Change

  • Global warming policy can be quite contentious because competing interests get involved in the policy-making and implementation process.
  • Global warming, or climate change, is the idea that the actions of human beings are drastically changing weather patterns on the planet, including the temperature.
  • The warming is particularly true around the poles .
  • As with all environmental policy, global warming policies can be quite contentious because competing interests get involved in the policy-making and implementation process.
  • Global warming is disproportionately affecting the polar regions, and changing the landscape for arctic wildlife like the polar bear.

• It's not just big business

  • For example, an organization called Small Business California worked to support the state's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), the passing of which imposes tough legislation to tackle global warming.

• Global Warming Revisited

  • The Second Law of Thermodynamics may help provide explanation for the global warming over the last 250 years.
  • The Second Law of Thermodynamics may help provide explanation for why there have been increases in Earth's temperatures over the last 250 years (often called "Global Warming"), and many professionals are concerned that the entropy increase of the universe is a real threat to the environment .
  • Global mean land-ocean temperature change from 1880 – 2012, relative to the 1951 – 1980 mean.

• The Environment

  • The Bush administration was often criticized for discounting the human influence on global warming and refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
  • Cooney is now known to have edited government climate reports in order to minimize the findings of scientific sources tying greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.
  • Input from the business lobby group Global Climate Coalition was also a factor.
  • In May of 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) allegedly blocked release of a report that suggested global warming had been a contributor to the frequency and strength of hurricanes in recent years.
  • Throughout his presidency, President Bush consistently noted global warming as a serious problem but asserted there is a "debate over whether it's manmade or naturally caused."

• Climate Change and Biodiversity

  • The global warming trend is recognized as a major biodiversity threat, especially when combined with other threats such as habitat loss.
  • Climate change, specifically, the anthropogenic (caused by humans) warming trend presently underway, is recognized as a major extinction threat, particularly when combined with other threats such as habitat loss.
  • The warming trend will shift colder climates toward the north and south poles, forcing species to move with their adapted climate norms while facing habitat gaps along the way.
  • The same study suggests that the optimal shift based on warming trends was double that distance, suggesting that the populations are not moving quickly enough.
  • Finally, global warming will raise ocean levels due to glacial melt and the greater volume of warmer water.

• Stable Isotopes

  • This work is especially important due to our current concern with climate change/global warming.
  • This work is especially important due to our current concern with climate change/global warming.

• The Greenhouse Effect

  • This increase in greenhouse gases is producing the phenomenon known as global warming, a rapid increase in atmospheric temperatures that may produce a number of environmental consequences, such as more extreme weather.
  • Recall the causes of global warming and how humans have aggravated the phenomenon.

• Globalization and the U.S.

  • Further, environmental challenges such as global warming, cross-boundary water and air pollution, and over-fishing of the ocean are linked with globalization.
  • Academic literature commonly subdivides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization, and political globalization.
  • Multiple anti-globalization movements have emerged out of this concern, protesting against globalization and giving new momentum to the defense of local uniqueness, individuality, and identity.
  • In general, globalization may ultimately reduce the importance of nation states.
  • As a response to globalization, some countries have embraced isolationist policies.

• Evidence of Global Climate Change

  • Global climate change can be understood by analyzing past historical climate data, such as atmospheric CO2 concentrations in ice cores.
  • Climate change can be understood by approaching three areas of study: (1) evidence of current and past global climate change, (2) causes of past and present-day global climate change, and (3) ancient and current results of climate change.
  • It is helpful to keep these three different aspects of climate change clearly separated when consuming media reports about global climate change.
  • These are the Medieval Climate Anomaly (or the Medieval Warm Period) and the Little Ice Age.
  • Because of this warming, the Vikings were able to colonize Greenland.