... a person's life because they cannot tangibly experience it in their lifetime. The challenges produced by both geographic and time scale in the search for a feasible solution to stop climate change illustrates the influential power of scale in the world. Logistically, it will be a huge challenge to ... advancements of the human race, time, as established by the environment, is completely disregarded by humans. This lack of unity between nature and man is a great cause of friction in the stages of development of a solution to global warming. The environment has taken "the whole ... In t...

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... to stabilize the atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases. In addition to CO2, another 20 or so greenhouse gases have been identified. At present the most important are methane (CH4), man made chlorofluorocarbons CFC-11 and CFC-12, nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3) in the lower atmosphere. Taken together, these other greenhouse gases are responsible ... Tropospheric methane and ozone are increasing in concentration about 1% annually. Warmer temperatures, rise in sea level, changes in precipitation and water availability, altered storm patterns, and changes in growing seasons are all imp...

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