global warming

Examples of global warming in the following topics:

• 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."

• 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.

• Environmental Protests

  • It focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.

• Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

  • The war brought America onto the global stage in a way never before experienced.
  • The speech was the only explicit statement of aims by any of the nations involved in World War I and led to Wilson receiving the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create a peaceful global community.
  • In many ways World War I pulled America into modernity, while leaving unsettled many older issues and problems that continued through the ensuing years of economic troubles and new global conflict.
  • "Keeping Warm" was the title of this cartoon in the Los Angeles Times, a conservative newspaper, demanding federal action to stop a coal strike, November 22, 1919.
  • To understand how World War I changed America’s role in the global arena and the effects the war had on domestic issues and policies.

• New France and Louisiana

  • The Algonquian helped them to hunt for food and to use the furs from their prey to keep warm during the winter months.
  • This global map illustrates the geographic location of New France, which stretched from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

• Debates over Globalization

  • While proponents argue globalization is beneficial to economic growth, opponents argue that it contributes to global inequality.
  • Some research indicates positives trends as the world has become more globalized, though it is unclear if these trends are directly linked to globalization.
  • Those opposed to globalization view one or more globalizing processes as detrimental to social well-being on a global or local scale.
  • Globalization is seen by these proponents as the beneficial spread of liberty and capitalism.
  • Anti-globalization, or counter-globalization, consists of a number of criticisms of globalization, but can be generally described as a criticism of the globalization of corporate capitalism.

• The Internationalization of the United States

  • Globalization is seen by these proponents as the beneficial spread of liberty and capitalism.
  • The diffusion of certain cuisines such as American fast food chains is a visible aspect of cultural globalization: the two most successful global food and beverage outlets, McDonald's and Starbucks, are American companies often cited as examples of globalization, with over 32,000 and 18,000 locations operating worldwide, respectively, as of 2008.
  • Some critics of globalization argue that it harms the diversity of cultures.
  • In this way, globalization can contribute to the alienation of individuals from their traditions.
  • While scholarly opinion typically states that globalization and Americanization are different phenomena, they are inherently linked.

• Mill Towns and Company Towns

  • "In the nineteenth century, saws and axes made in New England cleared the forests of Ohio; New England ploughs broke the prairie sod, New England scales weighed wheat and meat in Texas; New England serge clothed businessmen in San Francisco; New England cutlery skinned hides to be tanned in Milwaukee and sliced apples to be dried in Missouri; New England whale oil lit lamps across the continent; New England blankets warmed children by night and New England textbooks preached at them by day; New England guns armed the troops; and New England dies, lathes, looms, forges, presses and screwdrivers outfitted factories far and wide. " - Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969

• The Financial Crisis

  • The 2008 global financial crisis was caused by widespread corporate fraud and risky loans and resulted in foreclosures, bank bailouts, and a global recession.
  • The 2007–2012 global financial crisis, also known as the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
  • The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses, with declines in consumer wealth estimated in trillions of US dollars, and a downturn in economic activity leading to the 2008–2012 global recession and contributing to the European sovereign-debt crisis.
  • The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble, which peaked in 2007, caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet, damaging financial institutions globally.
  • Questions regarding bank solvency, declines in credit availability, and damaged investor confidence had an impact on global stock markets, where securities suffered large losses during 2008 and early 2009.

• A World War

  • The Seven Years War was a global military war involved most of the great global powers of the time, which affected European colonies.
  • The Seven Years War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines (.