Tag Archives: Earth
‘Lights Out’ As Taiwan Fights Global Warming
Around 650,000 people in Taiwan are expected to turn off their lights for up to an hour on Friday night to boost public awareness of global warming, an organiser of the event said.
Some public buildings, including the world’s tallest...
Global Warming Blamed For Varnishing Lake
Scientists blamed global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind.
The disappearance of the lake in Bernardo O’Higgins National Park was...
A Coming Cold Day For Warm Globe
“It’s global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world,” says Timothy Patterson, director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center at Carleton University in Canada. He sets out in Toronto’s National...
Earthshaking Ways To Save The World
Global warming has got the scientific community working overtime. Some are trying to understand the phenomenon while others are grappling with carbon footprints. Then there are those who have come up with rather bizarre ways of altering nature...
Global Warming According To The Scientists
According to the scientists the Earth’s climate is being directly affected by human activity, and for many people around the world, these changes are having negative effects. Some relevant records show that 11 of the last 12 years were...
Greenhouse Gases Effects
Greenhouse gases create a natural greenhouse effect, without which mean temperatures on Earth would be an estimated 30 °C (54 °F) lower so that Earth would be uninhabitable. Thus scientists do not “believe in” or “oppose”...
Introduction on Global Warming
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.
Global average air temperature near the Earth’s surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C...
