Global Warming

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The paper describes how global warming has been accelerating at an unprecedented rate and its effects can be seen in the recent weather changes and natural catastrophes. The paper explains the causes of global warming and presents the various solutions. The paper points out the irony that although the U.S. and Australia are already paying the price for excessive carbon dioxide emissions, these two nations are still resistant to even the relatively moderate long-term reductions proposed by the Kyoto Protocol.

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"The causes of this accelerated global warming of the earth's atmosphere are both simple and complex. The simple reason is that our overuse of fossil fuels in industrial, affluent, and increasingly populated nations and the release of excess effluvia of CO2 into earth's atmosphere is affecting the thermostatic temperature balance of the globe. That is the simple cause. The complex, interrelated causes have to do with our dependence on these fossil fuels and the local, regional and national economic interests of a free-market economy that causes tensions between developed nations (and between developed and underdeveloped nations) and the special interest groups whose relatively short term economic goals are taking precedent over immediate and pressing global concerns."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Causes of Global Warming." Online posting. EcoBridge. June 6, 2006 <http://www.ecobridge.org/>.
• Flannery, Tim. The Weathermakers. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.
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• Johansen, Bruce E. The Global Warming Desk Reference. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

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