... cut emissions by 50 to 70% just to stabilize the level of these gases in the atmosphere. To do this, industrialized countries need to agree on rapid reductions in emissions. Among other steps, this means shifting from private car use to public transportation, energy conservation, and a shift to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In the developing countries, vastly ... increased resources are needed to promote renewable energy and to create financial incentives to keep the last great forests intact. Switching to renewable ... energy sources means sound alternatives to coal...

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... the US government to force oil companies and large industries to comply with the limits set by past and future treaties. Our laissez-faire system of government stands with weak knees before the powerful lobbyists of the energy consortiums. As long as cheap emission credits are available, the major industrial polluters have no financial incentives to invest in new, c! leaner technologies ... home reductions for the world's worst carbon dioxide emitter. 2. Sinks; Many questions remain about how the inclusion of "sinks," such as forests that absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, in the ...

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... landfills, polluted water, and reduced air quality, leading to different temperatures and bipolar climate changes known as global warming. Global warming is one of the biggest problems faced in today's world. Greenhouse gases, pollution, and deforestation is effected and increasing global warming, thus becoming very dangerous ... carrying freshwater into oceans often carry pollutants and industrial waste, thus forming flocculation, which are pollutants clumped together and descended to the bottom of the sea. Even climate changes can do damage to oceans. According to Sudeshna Chowdhury, "...

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... and the biosphere. The greenhouse gases work to trap the heat producing energy on our Earth, and pretty much does a good job of it if left undisturbed. We have disturbed it. The human production of greenhouse gas producing chemicals is what is disturbing it. This production by humans of these particular gases linger in our atmosphere for many many years and they ... the country of Turkey. But the business community is slowly starting to realize this as being a very important issue and with the accumulating scientific evidence they cannot use denying the problem as a credible strategy. A ...

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... is most likely going to be more drought because of the longer dry periods. That is bad for us because of the problems that we already have with water management and conservation. Also with the sea levels rising because of global warming, it will contaminate so of the underground freshwater. There will also be more wildfires ... heat and that trapped heat can hold more moisture. Large rainstorms and floods are projected to happen every 4 to 6 years now because of global warming. Because of the heavy rain that we are getting from global warming, pollution, sediments, and nutrients into our...

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