Category Archives: Environment
India and the World Environment Day
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Smoking Gives A High? The Truth
People smoke so much of cigarettes these days that we have a term “chain smoker” to refer those people who are almost “gone-casers” and cannot live without a cigarette in their hands or between their lips.
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Global warming will cause many
Al Gore’s documentary presents viewers with a computer-animated polar bear treading water, struggling to find rest on the last, thin shelf of ice, which breaks apart under his weight. It is an image expressly designed to provoke emotion in the … Continue reading
Global Warming and pollution
Global Warming is a concern; however, the bottom line issue is pollution. Attempts in the past have been made to reduce pollution by our government; unfortunately, the majority of those attempts have failed. People are still in denial and do … Continue reading
AGRICULTURE THEORIES ON WHAT MAY HAPPEN IF THE PLANET WARMS UP
According to JD Obermiller, Agricultural Research Analyst at NCSU Mountain Horticulture Crops Research and Extension Center: If the warming happened all at once, it would be devastating to agriculture. Immediate flooding would wipe out about 40-50% of fresh fruit and … Continue reading
HUMAN IMPACTS GLOBAL WARMING
It is obvious that humans play a role in global warming. However, to what degree they affect climate change is unknown. According to Charles Anderson, a Botany Professor at NCSU, “In recent years measurements indicate that the level of carbon … Continue reading
COMPUTERIZED CLIMATE TEST MODEL PREDICTIONS
These are computer simulations of the earth’s atmosphere. Data such as earth’s surface temperatures, ocean temperatures, atmospheric temperatures, individual greenhouse gas amounts and other statistics are entered into the computer. The computer then formulates a reconstruction of the earth’s atmosphere … Continue reading
MY THEORY OF WHAT CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING
Based on all of my research I have concluded that global warming is caused by a combination of all of the above. Global warming cannot be pinned down to just one cause; all of these things are contributing factors. Some … Continue reading
THE EARTH’S ROTATION
As the earth rotates and shifts position on its axis weather also changes. The magnetic pull of the earth can shift water and air currents. This may contribute to some of our strange weather in the last decade. Heat is … Continue reading
NATURAL WEATHER CYCLES
Through out history, we see that weather runs in cycles. The planet heats up and then it cools down. We have ice ages and then gradually we become warmer. Archaeological studies have turned up a substantial amount of evidence … Continue reading
CLIMATE MEANS
“Climate [is] the long-term effect of the sun’s radiation on the rotating earth’s varied surface and atmosphere” (Encarta 98). Climate is determined by averaging temperature (daily, seasonal or annual) and the amount of precipitation during a given … Continue reading
WHAT IS THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT?
“Like the panes of a greenhouse, gases in the earth’s atmosphere permit the sun’s radiation to heat the earth but do not permit the infrared energy radiated back out by the earth to escape into space. These gases … are … Continue reading
Environment Friendly Renewable Energy Resources
Renewable energy is one alternate of concentration as we are going to have more environment friendly way to get electricity. Solar radiation along with secondary solar-powered resources such as air and water power,hydroelectricity and biomass, account for all the available … Continue reading
Global Warming:A Study
Global warming is one of the major crisis the world is facing today.Burning fossil fuels such as natural gas,coal,oil and gasoline considerably raises the level of carbon diocide in the atmosphere which is the major contributor to the green house … Continue reading
solar energy generating system (called SEGS)
Mirrors are used to concentrate the solar power onto a small area to heat a fluid such as water. (Heat can also liquefy salt, and that is sometimes used.) Steam from heated water can power a turbine that runs … Continue reading