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Environmental
Final: Global Warming
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Environmental Studies
Undergraduate 2
12/14/2012

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Un Secretary General stated
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there is a link between tropical storm Sandy and global warming
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Global monthly temps
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haven't warmed in 16 years
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evidence of Global warming cited in An Inconvenient Truth
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C02 Rising
Shrinking glaciers
Global temperatures rising
Severe weather events increasing in frequency and intensity
Sea Ice shrinking
Increasing biodiversity loss
Sea levels rising
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Mauna Loa, Hawaii shows great increase
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in atmospheric carbon dioxide
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the snows of Kilimanjaro
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85% smaller
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global warming model
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up greenhouse gases equals up in temperatures
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effects of greenhouse gases are modulated by
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delays, feedback loops, and general climate complexity
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global warming is behind much of the impetus to
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cut greenhouse gas especially C02 emissions; another reason why fossil fuels are on most environmentalists hit list
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back-predicting climate models are used to predict future
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global temperatures
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back-predictions are
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not predicting the future very well
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many climate models predict
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CAGW catastrophic anthropogenic greenhouse warming; including runaway green house effects
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climate model predictions are the basis for
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the IPCC informulating climate policies
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the rise in C02 levels has
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been challenged
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temperature data measurement and handling
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reflects growing urban heat islands
fluctuations in solar activity
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historical changes for temperature and C02
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temperature goes up before c02 goes up
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changes in the snows of Kilimanjaro could be
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due to land use changes
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polar sea ice trends don't tell
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that the total antartic sea ice is increasing
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global temperature rising
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el nino/la nina
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7 issues addressed to show global warming in the inconvenient truth
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Shrinking glaciers
Shrinking sea ice
Sea levels rising
Severe weather increasing in frequency/intensity
C02 level rising
Increasing Biodiversity loss
Global temperature rising
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