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Welcome to Exploring Life and Universe with Alex |
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The Big Bang |
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The Universe |
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Supernova
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Black Hole |
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The Milky Way Galaxy |
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The Sun and Global Warming |
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The Solar System |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
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The Earth |
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Strings |
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Helium |
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Gold Under Microscope |
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http://webmineral.com/specimens/picshow.php?id=3110 Phurcalite |
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Lasalite |
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History of Global Warming Concept |
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1827 Jean - Batiste Fourier 1892 Svante Arrhenius 1970 First Earth Day 1985 Hole in Ozone Layer found 1988 IPCC was started by the UN 1990 IPCC reported Earth warmed 0.5 Celsius 1992 The first global warming treaty 1997 The Kyoto Protocol was proposed 2005 Kyoto took place, Hurricane Katrina 2006 "An Inconvenient Truth" released 2007 IPCC reported global warming is 90% man-made |
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Atmosphere and Global Warming |
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Greenhouse Gases Carbon Dioxide Water Vapor Nitrous Oxide Methane |
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Greenhouse Effect |
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Proposed Solutions |
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Government Regulations Alternative Sources: Kyoto Protocol Synthetic Trees by Professor Lanker Market Forces Carbon Offset Converting from Incandescent Bulbs to LEDs Green Roofs Population Control Heat Islands Management
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What the Phenomena Should be Called? Global Warming Climate Change Climate Chaos Climate Crisis Greenhouse Effect or Planetary Emergency (Al Gore) |
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Proposed Changes |
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Rising Sea Level Changes in the Amount and Pattern of Precipitation Increase in the Frequency and Intensity of Extreme Weather Events Changes in Agricultural Yields Glacier Retreat Reduced Summer Stream flows Species Extinctions Increase in the Ranges of Disease Vectors
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References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/ http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578504/Greenhouse_Effect.html http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Greenhouse.shtml http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/interior/greenhouse_effect.html
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