Global Warming

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This essay addresses the issues of global warming and society's demand for energy, primarily in the form of fossil fuels. Furthermore, the importance of these issues is discussed, as well as some potential remedies to the problems currently caused by these issues. Although the writer does not propose to solve the problem of global warming and the demand for energy in such a brief space, this paper explores a few scholars' recommendations regarding how these issues should be treated and perhaps remedied. Both international and macro-level prescriptions are recommended as well as smaller, micro-level actions that individuals and smaller communities can undertake to positively affect the issue of global warming and dependence on fossil fuel for energy demands.

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"The environment and its protection have become a tense topic recently, even more so than in years past, primarily because of the skyrocketing price of oil and the apparent lack of alternate fuel sources which we are ready to utilize. While many alternate sources of energy have been discovered--wind, solar, hydrogen, nuclear, and many others--none is ready to replace our current demand for fossil fuel. Adding to the issue is the threat posed by global warming, the gradual increase in average temperature across the world; this has been reported to further damage the ozone layer, melt the ice caps, and cause all sorts of environmental havoc such as floods, tidal waves, even the tsunamis and hurricanes that have damaged many areas recently. While the science behind proving that global warming is the direct cause behind all of these troubles, the causal relationship is one worth exploring and which has been at least related to the use of fossil fuels as energy."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Rhode Island, Brown University Center for Environmental Studies, 2000. Available at http://www.brown.edu/Research/EnvStudies_Theses/GHG/Sections/Fossil_Fuel.htm
• Muller, B. (2002) Equity in Climate Change. The Great Divide. Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Oxford, UK
• Pearce, Fred. "Is global warming making hurricanes stronger?" New Scientist, 3 December 2005, Issue 2528
• Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1998. Available at http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf
• Sanders, Robert. "Faster carbon dioxide emissions will overwhelm capacity of land and ocean to absorb carbon" UC Berkeley News, 02 August 2005. Available at http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/08/02_carbon.shtml

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