T he ten indicators of climate change include, measurments of sea level rise taken from ships, the temperature of the upper atmosphere taken from weather balloons, and field surveys of melting glaciers.   The first signs of global warming are seen n…

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You probably know that trees extract carbon dioxide from air.  Therefore,  it follows that the large scale cutting down of forests upsets the delicate balance of gases in the atmosphere.  In 1938, British physicist G.S.Callender determined that higher level…

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Meteorology is the science that studied atmospheric phenomena,  especially those that relate to weather.  It gets its name from the word 'meteor' which in Ancient Greece,  referred to any object that appeared in the sky, whether it is clouds,  rai…

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S vante Arrhenius was a Swedish physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner. He is famous as the father of climate change science.  Arrhenius became interested in a debate occupying the scientific community,  namely the cause of the Ice Ages. Could it be, he …

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P ople have long suspected that human activity could change the local climate. The basic principles of global warming were first noted in 1827, by the French scientist Jean Baptiste Fourier. He observed that certain gases trapped heat in…

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A round the world, climate change is posing potentially catastrophic and long-term changes to the environment.  The sea levels are rising, and Artic Sea ice is melting. More intense hurricanes are approaching our costlines,  and more glaciers are retreating…

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T he Earth's climate has been changing for billions of years. It has warmed and cooled many times long before humans were around.The orgin of Man can be traced in the warm, relatively benign climate of equatorial Africa, but our ancestors battled the col…

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G lobal warming is the process when the Earth heats up, and the temperature rises. This happens when there is an increase in the production of gases like carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide and methane, which are known as greenhouse gases. These gree…

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G lobal warming is the warming up of the planet above the temperature it “should” be. It is such a concern at the moment as it seems that the temperature is rising at a rate far faster than ever before. It is believed that it may be the activities of the huma…

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