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Global warming is climate change that causes the average temperature of the Earth's lower atmosphere to increase. Global warming can have many different causes, but it is most commonly associated with human interference, specifically the release of excessive amounts of greenhouse gases. With this gas buildup, the Earth's atmosphere warms to unnatural temperatures, which causes, among other things, sea levels to rise. This warming trend is sometimes called the greenhouse effect because gases, such as water vapor and carbon dioxide, act like a greenhouse around the earth.
This means heat from the sun enters the atmosphere, but the heat is not allowed back into space. Global warming is...
This means heat from the sun enters the atmosphere, but the heat is not allowed back into space. Global warming is...
Global warming is climate change that causes the average temperature of the Earth's lower atmosphere to increase. Global warming can have many different causes, but it is most commonly associated with human interference, specifically the release of excessive amounts of greenhouse gases. With this gas buildup, the Earth's atmosphere warms to unnatural temperatures, which causes, among other things, sea levels to rise. This warming trend is sometimes called the greenhouse effect because gases, such as water vapor and carbon dioxide, act like a greenhouse around the earth.
This means heat from the sun enters the atmosphere, but the heat is not allowed back into space. Global warming is expected to increase the intensity of forces of nature, such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Other effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, melting of glaciers and the extinction of certain species. Climate change also contributes to the reduction of the ozone layer. Trapping heat in the lower part of the atmosphere (global warming) leads to cooling in the upper part of the atmosphere (loss of ozone), which causes other climate changes that affect weather patterns. Ways to slow down global climate change include conservation of water, driving less, recycling and even planting a tree. Critics of global warming claim that nature, not humans, is responsible for the climate change and widespread temperature changes have been happening for years.
This means heat from the sun enters the atmosphere, but the heat is not allowed back into space. Global warming is expected to increase the intensity of forces of nature, such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Other effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, melting of glaciers and the extinction of certain species. Climate change also contributes to the reduction of the ozone layer. Trapping heat in the lower part of the atmosphere (global warming) leads to cooling in the upper part of the atmosphere (loss of ozone), which causes other climate changes that affect weather patterns. Ways to slow down global climate change include conservation of water, driving less, recycling and even planting a tree. Critics of global warming claim that nature, not humans, is responsible for the climate change and widespread temperature changes have been happening for years.
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Bill would limit public information requests of professors
In Virginia, the attorney general, skeptical of global warming, tried to use his subpoena powers to build a fraud case against a climatology professor. In Wisconsin, Republican Party officials sought the emails of a history professor, trying to...Tags: University of Baltimore, University of Virginia, Research, Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland, College Park
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Maryland misses deadline for climate action plan
State officials have missed their first major deadline for complying with a three-year-old law calling for Maryland to curb its emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases.
Under the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act, the Department of the Environment...Tags: Labor Legislation, Global Warming, Justice System, Environmental Politics, Judges
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What's Obama's No. 1 priority? Not jobs.
"In the Treasury we do not speak of tons of silver. Our unit is the troy ounce."
That was the response from some bureaucrat when Leslie Groves, the man who oversaw the Manhattan Project, sought thousands of tons of silver to be turned into electrical...Tags: Barack Obama, Global Warming, Oil Spills, Water Pollution, Global Change
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It's a big load of garbage to me
A friend of mine, who knows more about these things than I do, corrects me when the subject of global warming enters the conversation. The correct term, she reminds me, "is climate change." The bottom line is scientists who study the weather are pretty...Tags: George W. Bush, Global Warming, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Global Change, Vehicles
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Letter: Challenge is using recycled items, not collecting them
Challenge is using recycled items, not collecting them What is lost in the praises of "single-stream" is that collection is not necessarily recycling ("Single-stream recycling shows growth," Catonsville-Arbutus Times, Feb. 1). Recycling takes place when...Tags: Catonsville, YouTube, Global Warming
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MD "on track" to reduce greenhouse gases
Maryland is on track to reduce climate-altering greenhouse gases 25 percent by the end of the decade, according to a state environmental official.
In a preview of the state's overdue plan to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, George S. "Tad"...Tags: Global Warming, Environmental Pollution, Layoffs and Downsizing, Ecosystems, Energy Saving
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Thumbs down on Keystone
President Barack Obama's State Department is not going to issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline in its current form, and for this, even the project's most ardent supporters should be grateful. That includesTransCanada Corp. which was reportedly...Tags: Natural Resources, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Global Warming, Natural Resources
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Soft sciences push the idea of man-made global warming
Perhaps the environmental movement in America is stalled because the vast majority of scientists who support the idea that global warming is a result of human activity are social scientists ("Green movement's blues," Dec. 29). Hard science points in...Tags: Science, Global Warming, Glen Burnie, Global Change
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Aliso Viejo City Council Meeting Wrap-Up
The following is from Wednesday's Aliso Viejo City Council meeting. * First meeting with new mayor Mayor Donald Garcia honored Councilwoman Carmen Cave for her dedication to the city. Numerous city employees came up to congratulate and give words of...Tags: Caves and Caverns, Global Warming, Landforms, Landforms, Business
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EPA honors Hutchinson Correctional Facility
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe Hutchinson Correctional Facility will be honored next week by EPA for reducing its volume of solid waste through innovative and aggressive recycling programs. EPA will present a WasteWise State Government Partner of the Year Award to the...Tags: Prisons, Global Warming, Prisons, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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EPA: Power plants main global warming culprits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming.
Power plants released 72 percent of the greenhouse gases...Tags: Global Warming, Companies and Corporations, Environmental Politics, Coal, Washington, DC
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Gov. Perry running as Gov. Perry
In 1964, Barry Goldwater won the Republican nomination for president and probably lost the election at the same moment. I would remind you, he said in his acceptance speech, that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the...Tags: Science, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Rick Perry, Genesis (music group)
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