In recent years, national energy consumption, like emissions, has grown relatively slowly, with year-to-year fluctuations in the growth rate of energy consumption largely caused by variations in weather patterns, business cycles, fuel use for electricity generation, and domestic and international energy markets. ... Excessive amounts of electricity were used this past summer, causing brownouts. Too many Americans were running their air conditioners in the hot summer weather and there wasn't enough electricity to go around. ...

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Have diversified sources of energy by (a) ensuring 10 percent of electricity comes from renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025; (b) developing clean coal technologies; and (c) expanding nuclear power after issues of waste storage security and proliferation have been established. 6. ... Make a commitment to energy efficiency that includes (a) updating the capacity of the electricity grid; (b) setting demand reduction targets; (c) developing national building efficiency goals of being carbon neutral by 2030, improving new construction efficiency ...

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The ethical issue of climate change is how we should respond on a global, national, and personal level. For example, there is a rise in global temperature which can lead to the melting of polar ice caps. This will that result to a rise at sea level and it will also speed up the process of evaporatio...

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But ask yourself this, "How do you think electric companies get the electricity that now powers your car?" Jon Gabriel, author of "Electric Cars Bring Unintended Consequences to California" mentions, "When people boast of plugging in a car, they seem to think electricity comes from a wall instead of a huge power plant. ...

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Global warming is the gradual increase in the earth's average temperature of the atmosphere, which in the long history of the earth has occurred naturally but within the last century or so humans have now started to heat up the globe through their activities. At first thought it seems outrageous to...

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Climate change is the change in weather condition, which can be in a particular area or even the whole earth. It can happen naturally but also it is caused by human activities. It has impacted negatively on cities and cities have to bear the consequences. Urban areas, which suffer from the effect of...

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Global warming is an increase in the earth's temperature due to fossil fuels, industry, and agricultural processes caused by human, natural, and other gas emissions. (Melissa Phillips). This results in an increased emission of greenhouse gases. (Caroline Quatman). Short-wave solar radiation sinks in...

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Something as simple as replacing traditional incandescent bulbs with fluorescent bulbs can lower your electric bill and take a half-ton of carbon dioxide out of the air.7 Electricity plants are potent source of greenhouse gas emission. ...

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While many citizens of this country often scrutinize the government's environmental policies, they fail to realize that should the United States ratify this treaty, simple costs such as home electricity and water will skyrocket in order to accommodate the treaty's specifications. ...

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Over the course of history, the Earth has undoubtedly heated and cooled naturally without the assistance of human activity. Although there is a natural cycle, the pattern is being altered due to effects of harsh chemicals exposed to the atmosphere beginning in the Industrial Revolution. Science has ...

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(Hamburg, 2009, p.186-187) For example, burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, natural gas impacts on natural climate significantly because of the huge needs of transportation, heating, manufacturing, cooling, electricity generations. ...

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