The Consequences of Global Warming

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The paper discusses global warming and notes that without a change in the path of our lifestyles and consumption habits, humanity will face a rather bleak environmental future. The paper notes that man's industrial abuse of the environment affects this discussion on the topic of global warming and the damage to the environment by our industrialization, our consumption and our outright destruction of ecological systems. The paper touches upon the underlying causes of global warming and the impact of marine life changes on the broader global survival scheme and system of ecology.The paper also points out that one must recognize the human factors which have stimulated this pattern and acknowledge this reality, or it becomes feasible to view this as some sort of natural phenomenon.

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"The response time to existing evidence in our marine life has been extraordinarily slow, if not most often outright regressive. In 1994, roughly a decade before consensus had come to establish with some degree of incontrovertible and demonstrable evidence that global warming is occurring, Vitousek observed that "while ecologists involved in management or policy often are advised to learn to deal with uncertainty, there are a number of components of global environmental change of which we are certain--certain that they are going on, and certain that they are human-caused. Some of these are largely ecological changes, and all have important ecological consequences. In 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency released a report on the effects and reality of global warming. In the investigative commission that yielded the findings, an admission was submitted that there is no way to fully determine how much of the planet's climatic change has been due to natural variation in whether and temperature patterns. However, the report did assert the certainty that global warming is in large part due to human behavior and environmental practices."

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