Essays on Warming

We all know that power electronics deal with the conversion and management of power with the assistance of power semiconductor devices that operate in a shift mode, and, therefore, the potency of power electronic equipment could approach as high as 98–99% (Bose 2014).

Pollution and Waste Management

It plays a vital role in resolution or mitigating our global warming drawback; that is great concern in our society. Currently, the main portion of our energy comes from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas). The generation of greenhouse gases (mainly CO2) is taken into account as the first reason for global warming drawback. ...

Introduction

Research has shown that the hospitality industry is the largest industry in various countries around the world. Globally, the industry accounts for ten percent of employment of citizens in various nations across the globe. The hospitality sector also undergoes several changes and developments that affect its functions and operations. Many research professionals in the hospitality industry have noted that there are various trends that are likely to affect the sector. Some of these factors range from sustainable development, customer satisfaction based on their changing needs, to branding, marketing and even globalization in general. Some of these issues are already ...

and “Probable Causes of the Abnormal Ridge Accompanying the 2013-2014 California Drought: ENSO Precursor and Anthropogenic Warming Footprint” by S.-Y. Wang, L. Hipps, R. R. Gillies, and Jin-Ho Yoon, AGU Publications: 3220 – 3226, 2014

CE481 or CE581

Abstract The paper analyses the causes of the California drought in 2011/12 and 2013/14 winter seasons. There were ensemble simulations and observations used for indicating the main forces that led to dry winters. Usually, they are associated with ridge off the west coast. SST forcing can be useful for explanation of one third of California winter precipitation variance. ENSO is another model that may explain ...

‘Global Warming’ – a term frequently heard in the recent days and the center of hot debates on climate and environment. On one hand we have the COP Paris meeting where world leaders convened to take a stance on climate change issues and find solutions for problems faced. Climate scientists and environmentalists are literally warning that global warming issues, if left unnoticed, will take us closer to our ‘doomsday’. The term ‘El Nino and ‘La Nina’ are being attributed to every uncommon rain, hail and sunshine. On the other hand, a fair number of people, from all walks of the ...

Air PollutionThe air, water, noise, water, thermal and other forms of environmental pollution have an adverse impact on the quality of lives. The pollution is majorly as a result of activities carried out by human such as the industrial production of chemicals. In the modern days, motor vehicles are primary sources of pollution. The increased number of cars on the road lead to a rise in environmental pollution. Although they cause noise pollution, the main form of pollution caused by the motor vehicles is air pollution. Motor vehicles are very essential in transportation, and they contribute significantly to the ...

Earth’s quickly changing climate is a hot topic today. Among the young and old, the issue is debated passionately as individuals argue whether it is even happening and why. The Some believe climate change is still up for debate, the history surrounding the issue proves the Earth’s environment is, indeed, changing, and humans may be the only cause to blame. The CO2 emissions and various forms of pollution have been observed for years. While many attempt to correct what we have done to the planet, others speculate it may be too late to repair the damage we ...

Abstract

Today, global warming is very serious and demands our immediate attention. Unfortunately, due to gradual climate change, not all people see the problem as one that requires intervention. Global warming caused by the greenhouse effect. This effect arises from the growth of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, which are greenhouse gases. These gases let the sun rays inside the atmosphere and detain them there, thus gradually heating the earth surface and the oceans. In fact, all life on earth and warm, are due to the greenhouse effect itself. Because thanks to it, our planet maintains the required ...

Earth’s quickly changing climate is a hot topic today. Among the young and old, the issue is debated passionately as individuals argue whether it is even happening and why. The Some believe climate change is still up for debate, the history surrounding the issue proves the Earth’s environment is, indeed, changing, and humans may be the only cause to blame. The CO2 emissions and various forms of pollution have been observed for years. While many attempt to correct what we have done to the planet, others speculate it may be too late to repair the damage we ...

Water scarcity, especially a scarcity of freshwater, is an increasingly disconcerting international issue, especially in Africa. This problem is caused by both natural and anthropological. Scientists primarily fault humans for the trends that are currently taking place, especially in developing areas on the African continent. Population growth, buttressed by unsustainable anthropological activities such as the pollution of freshwater sources as well as environmental exploitation are often viewed as the primary culprits. Demographic shifts including an exponential population growth demands that people use more water for food, the production of commodities, sanitation, different dietary needs, and other domestic uses within ...

Solar power is a renewable source of energy, conversed of sunlight into electricity, directly using photovoltaics or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaics were used to power small and medium applications, from watch and calculator to off-grid homes. This is an inexpensive source of electrical energy, and according to a new Fraunhofer report, solar power in sunny regions of the world is going to be cheaper from gas or coal. For several years worldwide growth of solar photovoltaics (further PV) raised in many countries and regions all over the world, including Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Thailand. The increasing ...

Iron Whale

(3 Points) What is the biological pump as it relates to the ocean? The process of obtaining carbon dioxide molecules from the atmosphere is influenced by the biological pump. This pump increases the carbon dioxide molecules in the deeper parts of the ocean which results to the decrease in the atmospheric carbon dioxide by turning and incorporating the carbon dioxide molecules into living matter or phytoplankton. Upon fixation of the molecule into the phytoplankton, the organism starts to descend to the deeper levels of the earth due to gravity (Earth guide, n.p.). (3 Points) Where did this study take ...

Introduction

“There’s much stronger evidence connecting human activity to changes in temperature, melting glaciers and ocean warming,” are the words of Gerald Meehl who holds the position of a senior scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research. Meehl in addition to being a scientist is also a major contributor to the report that was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and according to the report; human activity is primary cause for warming of the earth’s climate. The 2007, the report linked human activity to the change in global temperatures with 90 percent certainty, a ...

I love to travel to different places, and Florida is a city that catches my attention in no time. The town boasts beautiful theme parks, including Universal Studios, top-notch malls, shopping centers, and exotic wildlife, but its beaches capture my heart. Relaxing waters, stunning sunrises and sunsets, and positive vibrations force me to spend time on these beaches again and again. However, it is unfortunate that global warming and changing climatic patterns are causing a grave threat to beaches, shore communities, and surrounding areas. Life has already been altered in many places, and a vast population has been rehabilitated owing to destructive ...

This is a network of a large number of neurons that is designed modulate, generate, and transmit information with the different parts of the body thus facilitating important body functions. It is basically the electrical wiring of the body. Structurally the nervous system is divided into central nervous system (the brain, spinal cord and nerves) and peripheral nervous system made up of sensory neurons, ganglia and nerves. Functionally the nervous system is divided into somatic and autonomic component. The CNS integrates all the sensory and motor information of the body. The nervous system has two components the gray and white matter. ...

Directions:

- Save your report often as you fill it out, so as not to lose information. - Use the report form as a single document, do not turn in separate reports for each lab - Use the ‘Save As’ option to save your file as a Word 97 .doc file - Save your lab report with this name: Last name, First initial, underscore V1. Thus Charles Darwin would save his Unit 1 Virtual Lab Report as DarwinC_V1. - Submit this report as a single ...

Conduction of Qualitative Research

The steps for conduction, design and methodology in a qualitative research are as follows for any qualitative of study. - The first step in conducting a qualitative study on any topic you should have a clear question pinned down. - There can be a typical thorough literature review to understand other researcher’s work. The library and internet can be ...

Sarma, K M, and Lani Sinclair. Protecting the Ozone Layer: The United Nations History. Earthscan, 2002. Internet resource.

In this book, Sarma, a former secretary and acting consultant of UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) together with Anderson and an Environmental Protection Agency of the US published about the history of environmental issues as per researches done by UNEP. They talk about how the ozone layer agreement was successful and inspired the entire world community to handle the ozone layer problem and several other environmental degrading issues. The history covers the media coverage, diplomacy, science, business policies and technology stories ...

Have you ever wondered why the number of people with asthma continues to increase? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of people afflicted with asthma increased by 4.3 million from 2001 to 2009, and is still growing. Do you know that in 2011 alone, there were a total of 302 disasters worldwide which consists of droughts, extreme temperatures, wild fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, storms and floods?

The statistics that I mentioned may be quite surprising for most of us but they are real. Pollution is at its worst, resulting ...

Introduction

Causes of food shortage There are three factors that lead to food shortage; they include environmental, economic and social factors. Other factors causing food shortage are overpopulation and poor government policies that lead many countries in scarcity of food. Food distribution to the masses is determined by the socio-political factors. The production and growth of crops in a given area is determined by the environmental factors. While on the other hand, economic factor affects the buying and production capacity.

Social factors causing food shortage include increase rate of the population which is higher than food production. High rate ...

I. Introduction Human activities are causing the world to warm and the global average temperature is predicted to increase by 1.8-4.0C (3.2-7.2F) by the end of the century. (Griffin, 2009) These numbers might not seem that large but when you factor in the rate at which they are increasing, it almost becomes obvious that human contributed greenhouse gases are a huge contributing factor. Since the climate will continue to change for natural and humans activity reasons, it critical to understand the adaptations humans need to do as soon as possible. For certain, if oil production and oil consumption ...

- Explain the significance of the grand challenge that you consider in this assignment. System thinking engulfs the criterion of problem solving that concentrates on the larger picture of all the responsible aspects, as opposed to objective approaches which focus on those agents that are directly linked to the problem only. Taking the challenge of global warming and climate change, this problem solving approach can be demonstrated effectively. What makes it so pronounced is the threat it poses to a large portion of the earth and generations to come. New York City, Norfolk, Va., Venice, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, ...

After analysis of these 5 movies I totally agree with the main plot of movies and judgment made in them. At least 4 movies are very similar: An Inconvenient Truth, Supersize me, Bowling for Columbine and Who Killed The Electric Car. The main problem in all this films is the unwillingness of government to lose control over society and undesirability of business to lose millions of dollars. Over the decades mankind has formed numerous problems. Global warming, climate changes, adiposity, health problems, inefficient using of electricity, shooting in schools, illegal arms trade and many others. I am deeply convinced ...

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humans. Individual’s lifestyles have developed to such an extent in developed countries that people continue to drain the earth of fossil fuels used to sustain humans. The result is that global warming is happening as a result of natural but predominantly human activities that release carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Measuring the best forms of energy to counteract this depends on a number of technological, economic and societal variables. It also requires the efforts of government to use command and control along with economic incentives to the highest potential for each ...

I think the biggest security threat that the world will face in the future is global warming. Global warming is the increase in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and the oceans. The increase in temperature is caused by the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Green houses gases include water vapour, ozone, carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon dioxide is the most common greenhouse gas. One of the sources of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the burning of fossil fuel and the cutting down of trees which leads to more concentration of the carbon dioxide, since plants ...

1. The HS2 Railway Network

On November 2013, the Government passed a hybrid bill to Parliament supporting the launch of Phase One of the High Speed Two (HS2) project (DfT 2013). Consultation ended in February 2014 and the Parliament is in the process of appointing an independent assessor to provide an outline of all issues surrounding the project. The HS2 project is a railway network that is part of the Coalition Agreement and the Department for Transport’s (DfT) business plan from 2010 until 2015. HS2 has two phases, which will be launched separately and thus, will be subjected to ...

Introduction

People are very privileged to witness and experience a profuse and diverse natural resources and wildlife on our planet. However, this abundance of natural resources comes with a big stewardship responsibility. For many years, people have known the moral obligation to conserve and guard the diversity of wildlife. Loss of different species is very common nowadays. This loss is brought by population growth, habitat fragmentation and loss, invasive disease and resource removal (IPCC, 2001). Scientists state that the world is now living the sixth vast extinction. Countless species are in jeopardy. For instance, in the United States, more than five-hundred ...

Introduction

Ozone layer is naturally evolved a layer made up of atomic oxygen with molecular oxygen and covers a big area in stratosphere. The distinct function of the ozone layer is to absorb ultraviolet wavelengths coming from the solar waves. The collision of ozone occurs because of several other atmospheric molecules and UV radiations (Tabin, 2008).

O3+ UV >>> O2 + O O3 + O >>> 2O2

The maintenance of the ozone layer is very necessary as through absorbing the solar radiation Ozone establishes ...

Two eminent scholars Jay Gulledge and Richard A. Muller have expressed concern in their research about Global warming and its consequences in USA. The seasonal weather changes are surprising as extreme climatic conditions have minimized the accuracy of their prediction. According to Jay Gulledge the changing climatic models are highly affected by Global warming. He compares the effect that global warming has on extreme weather conditions to a human organ; just like smoking can increase the chances of having a heart attack. The deadly emissions from greenhouses and industries have been continuously increasing. The economy also suffers when struck by extreme ...

QUESTION 1

Mary is a Conscientious Moral Agent. Identify a moral argument or arguments that Mary can apply in this case. Use the facts of this case to explain the moral reasoning and moral principle(s) that Mary applies in this case.

ANSWER: Given the condition in which Mary was in, it is important that she addresses the situation as impartial as she can be. In this particular case, she should therefore forget that she is the mother of one of the students in the place of employment of one of their patients in the hospital who was having psychological health issues. ...

Introduction

This dissertations main porpoise and focus will be to address if the British armed forces will have any role in future international conflict. It will address the beginning of the British Empire all the way to the empire that we know today. After this we will look at concerns and threats that the British might face as well as the rest of the world and how this could have an impact on the British role in any future conflict. After having discussed all of the concerns we will look at the ability through advances in technology for any involvement ...

Virgin Group

Abstract Being a successful business with a long term growth potentiality is the most important objective of any business organization. Success of a business can be defined in many ways and there are a number of alternative notions of success that are commonly used by business analysts. The current dissertation explores four different notions of success and their limitations in the real world. The notions of success are explored in the context of one of the most successful conglomerates of the 20th century, Virgin Group. While the funding, profits, and management structure look into the internal aspects regarding the success of a business; ...

The world is currently facing numerous environmental challenges that are threatening the lives of humans and other living organisms on earth. Various movements and efforts have been started by government-and non-government organizations around the globe to either to mitigate these challenges or at least lessen their impact to humanity. Addressing these concerns is very important because everybody is affected by these problems. It is not only the country directly hit by these challenges.

The biggest problem among these challenges is the global warming and climate change. This phenomenon is a result of the activities of human that leads to ...

Question 1: Bhopal Disaster

Uncertainty is part of any corporate organization and it may range from typical crises to existential crises. The crises can be national and affect all types of organizations or they can be industry specific. Whatever the type or case, how a corporate leader manages a crisis will have a long-term effect on the company or organization. Hearit (2006) defines a crisis as any activity or occurrence that is not planned for and has a negative effect on an organization if not managed effectively. Crises in companies are a test to managers. As a corporate leader, managing a crisis that is industry specific or that the company is ...

The U.S. Government’s and Individual Citizens Obligation in Reducing Nation’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The question on whether the United States government has an obligation to adopt policies that are designed to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions is of great controversy. This is due to the approach that is taken by different individuals to try and look into this question. The answers given by various personalities vary based on the approach that is taken towards this matter. This is despite the common knowledge that all individuals have a role in reducing greenhouse gas emission. This is ...

Introduction

Global warming and pollution has led companies to rethink their activities concerning green methods of production. Carbon dioxide emissions are the leading cause of global warming and the dangers of global warming have been documented for a long time. Governments have come up with restrictions on emissions, which have forced companies to re-think the way they do production. Quest carbon capture and storage project is one example of how companies are re-thinking their strategy and practice towards carbon emissions. This project is developed by Shell for its Athabasca oil sands project (AOSP) in Alberta. It is the first carbon capture ...

INTRODUCTION

The wider population and the government are aware that prompt action is necessary to lessen the human impact on the environment, which is the means to turn around the global climate changes as well as lessening the demands on natural resources. Much has been done concerning this issue but a lot more needs to be done in order to decrease consumption of resources and get better environmental management if we want to repeal the global climate change and spare some resources to the future generations. Humanity is running out of natural resources and the global climate change is not something ...

Global warming is probably one of the most publicized environmental problems. Everywhere you can find activists of the fight for reducing the impact of humanity on the planet's climate. If in fact humanity leads to a marked increase in global sea level, producing carbon dioxide, which is often considered to be the cause of global warming, of course, something must be done about it.

Nevertheless, what if global warming is caused not by human activity, but by some other processes? The theory that states the use of fossil fuels is leading to a significant increase in the temperature of Earth's ...

- Introduction A four stroke or four cycle engine is an engine operating on the principle of internal combustion, in which pistons (one per cylinder in multi-cylinder engines) completes four separate strokes for each thermodynamic cycle, which is accomplished over two consecutive revolutions of the engine’s crankshaft.

These four strokes are: the Intake stroke, the Compression stroke, the Power stroke and the Exhaust stroke. The sectional diagrams below illustrate these four strokes in a single-cylinder engine; the curved red arrows represent the direction of rotation of the camshafts (small arrows) and the engine’s crankshaft (larger arrows). The ...

Inconvenient Truth Emotional Impacts and Personal commitment

The film, Inconvenient Truth, shows a documentary of Al Gore, the global campaigner against global warming. In documentary, the director covered the global travels by Al Gore in his struggle to create awareness on the need for fast action on climate change and the imminent dangers. The great efforts and global journeys made by Al Gore and the facts about the severity of the global warming triggered strong reactions from me. The reaction evoked a shocking feeling. Based on the appalling scientific evidences, the negative impacts of climate change are severe and can wipe human population in the region. The drought that ...

“Natural Disasters-Floods," Retrieved October 18, 2014 from http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/teacher_resources/webfieldtrips/natural_disasters/floods/

This article mentioned the natural disasters like floods that may happen in poor as well as rich countries. As a matter of fact, these disaster are also linked with manmade activities. The change in land use, deforestation, landscape, and flood plains all contribute in the severity of floods. The article reported that global warming caused by man-made activities is one of the major factors contributing in this natural disaster. The human beings made changes in river basins that affect floods like in the case of Washington; concrete constructions developed to stop the flow of water prevented natural seepage that consequently ...

Introduction

In today’s world, children are now the sole responsibility of the families without the support of public in the rapid economic development. Policy makers have assumed that government assistance for caring a child has shown minimal response especially female family members that can continue to provide care for their children. In the past, primary caregivers were the mothers for their children whereas fathers were the family breadwinners. When mothers have had to leave their homes for continuing their job, alternative children grandmother used to take care of them. There are many misconceptions about being a single parent because they often ...

Introduction

Images embody cultural meanings or symbolisms in their very nature, color, text and other elements. These meanings are drawn, created or extended from a wide sociocultural context. Advertising communications seek to inform, persuade and identify their products with symbols that would give their products or brands approval in the eyes of the consumers. In order to achieve this, advertising must establish a dialogue and create a relationship with a consumer, which in turn means that they must draw on numerous ways of creating meaning or modes of communications. Create meaning/relationships draws is heavily influenced by culture. This paper argues that the Fiat Panda ...

Intensification of open-ocean oxygen depletion by vertically migrating animals

Oxygen is a very important gas that is needed by all living organisms for the the purpose of respiration. It is, therefore, in the interest of everyone to understand the conservation and the significance of oxygen in an ecosystem (Daniele Bianchi, 2013). The research aimed at studying the dieL vertical (DVM) migration of the zooplankton within the depth ranging from the surface to the mesopelagic levels of the ocean water (Vinogradov, 1968).As a result, the focus was placed on determining the fluctuations in amounts of carbon accompanying the respiration of the marine organisms at varying times. To obtain data on ...

The internet has become a limitless advance of space where individuals can write anything or be anyone. Information is not always valid, nor are the faces we look at. Virtually everything we see on the internet has the capacity to be doctored in some way. Essentially we could be hoaxed as many times a day as we dare to click our mouse’s button. Unfortunately, I have several stories involving internet hoaxes and the damage that they can cause in the lives of people who are unaware of them. One involves disinformation; the other involves dishonesty.

Four years ago, as blogs ...

- Vertebrates: These are higher organisms in the kingdom Animalia that have a distinct spinal cord, i.e., a vertebra (notochord). Vertebrates include bony fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

- Invertebrates: Invertebrates are organisms of the kingdom Animalia that do not have a vertebral column. Invertebrate organisms include insects, arthropods, molluscs, worms, annelids and protozoans.

- Biodiversity: Biodiversity is the variation of different life forms present in any specified region, area, niche, biome and even planet. The variation includes genetic variations, specie variations and ecosystem variations.

- Nexus: A nexus is a gap junction that acts as intracellular connections between two cells. Nexus ...

1. Different disciplines have their respective definitions of hypothesis. In science, hypothesis is defined as the initial building block in the scientific method based on recurring knowledge, theories and observations with no pre-determined outcome (Zimmerman, 2012). Hypothesis is a form of a statement made in the manner of an educated guess that can be used as a basis for consequent scientific methods. The formulated hypothesis may or may not be accepted as a theory after an experiment.

It is not very difficult to formulate a hypothesis in general, as long as the dependent and independent variables have been mapped properly. Furthermore, doing qualitative and ...

Just as James Lovelock once said, “We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science”, it is true that in this age it is increasingly important to listen to the scientific facts, as science is the best tool we have to discern whether or not climate change is caused by mankind. The term “anthropogenic” is used to describe human-made climate change and means originating in human activity. Climate change is defined in the change in global climatic patterns since the mid-20th century and is not limited to ...

The world is suffering from several problems, and these problems are common in the developing as well as in the developed world. Such as Julian Cribb has described in, ‘The Coming Famine’ that there is a problem global food shortage prevailing in the world. The resources of high demand such as land, water, technology, knowledge, and energy are depleting that is effecting the economic growth (Cribb, 2010). Similarly, the spread of the infectious diseases is also a global problem that has disturbed the countries worldwide. The advent of the novel infections and diseases and there-emergence of the previous infections has ...

The earth is considered to be a home for a billion people along with animals and another organism. A single person would take twenty thousand breaths a day. But is the air that we are breathing clean? Water is considered to be a source of life. But is the water that we drink clean? As children, we grew in a much safer and cleaner environment. But is the environment as clean and safe today? The growing population is considered to have direct impacts on the environment. Environmental pollution has increased 10-fold over the past decade. The grieving situation of planet earth is to be ...

Several critics in the media presume that there is a perfectly fair way or objective way of representing every event in the world. They assume that deviating from fair depiction of actual information is accounts for media bias. ‘Bias’ in media context means that a news institution, editor or reporter is aware how the event looks like, but they modify or tweak the event to advance economical, political and ideological aims. This is true in case of climate change, where media organizations have distorted information in past over important issue like climate change (Wemple). It is true that ideologically driven, ...

Introduction

The concept of sustainable development within the industrialized nations and the increased worries caused by global warming, has led to a global interest in the need to come up with better ways in which building construction projects within the urban settings can be done in such a manner as to promote sustainability of our environment as opposed to the rather “business as usual” myopic concept in building projects. This will ensure that this generation meets its own needs without negatively interfering with the ability of the coming generation to meet their own needs. In most scenarios, most building projects can ...

An important concept that is apparent from the reading is the need for the developed countries to take more responsibilities towards preservation of environment by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases to curb global warming. The importance of curbing global warming is to avoid its detrimental effect to the environment and ultimately to humankind. The developed nations must take the lead role in combating global warming is because are the major contributors of carbon emissions that are responsible for global warming. Since the vast majority of the industries that emit the carbon and other greenhouse gasses in the environment ...

United States of America has used oil as its main source of energy for a long time but, it can emulate the Simso community project. This because, however, they have ready access to oil in the state, the oil is a major source of global warming that leads to climate change. The Simso community initially used electricity that was coming mainly from the mainland that was passing through a cable and generation coming from coal. This affects the atmosphere as carbon dioxide is generated through the process in tones. For example, each sassing into the atmosphere generates almost eleven tones on an ...

"Global Warming is Eroding Glacial Ice" by Andrew C. Revkin.

The article talks about the various ways on which the mountain glaciers have over the time become an indication of the global warming phenomena. These activities has greatly been influenced by humans disturbances on nature. Important to note is that the natural climate bears some responsibility in the rise in temperature of the entire world .The two phenomenon which are life threatening to planet earth needs to be advocated in order to change this life threatening trend which may deplete life on earth.

Currently the observed rise in ...

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

The pollution control efforts can be traced back to ancient human history where pure drinking water was an area of serious interest. This further became essential especially after the industrial revolution to protect and promote the environment in which we live and work. Various issues including the cost factors have been considered while enacting the laws. The international laws on environment along with having the laws of the individual countries also have all the various treaties and conventions. Some of the important laws among them are customary international laws on trans boundary resource pollution, UN economic commission on long ...

Abstract

Present day climatic change is the direct result of human influences, which have so far crossed the bounds of variations of natural. The true source of global climatic change is man-induced alteration in atmosphere’s composition. These issues result mainly from emissions associated with uses of energy resources, more or less due to local and regional scales. Urbanization and changes in land use are also an important aspect. Though progress has been made in techniques of monitoring and understanding climatic change, there are still quite a many scientific, technical and institutional obstacles for precise planning to adapt to and mitigate ...

Introduction

The term “ecological problems” is nowadays used to define a number of environmental problems. Given the modern environmental mess and the truth that the world has many environmental problems than before, it is no surprise that a lot of emphasis is actually put at this negative ecological context. This is the reason why no difference exists between ecological and environmental problems in everyday talk. Environmental problems are also ecological problems since environment is essentially a center of all the ecological research. All sorts of pollution, climate change, endangered animals, deforestation, are all problems of ecology since ecology uses the scientific approach ...

Global warming is a condition whereby there is continued abnormal rise in the average temperatures, in the atmosphere. The main cause of global warming is due to the increase of the concentration in greenhouse gases, in the atmosphere (Haldar, 2011).

Greenhouse gases mainly include carbon and its compounds like methane, carbon dioxide and also the emissions coming from fossil fuels during combustion, deforestation that is major carbon sink globally also contributes to greenhouse gases increase (Haldar, 2011). Fossil fuels especially used in vehicles and industries also contribute to global warming in a major way and are as a result of human activities. ...

REDD+ stands for, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. REDD+ is a current program that identifies some of the challenges facing forest protection within major African countries. The program aims at eradicating global warming and reducing greenhouse gases within the continent. Some of the primary challenges facing REDD+ are poor cooperation from member countries, inadequate land for reforestation, high demand for land for settlement, and more so, an increasing demand for timber and timber products. Development of water infrastructure has increased utilization of water resources within the African continent over the last decade. Additionally, that program facilitates efficient ...

Sivakumar, B. (2011). Global climate change and its impacts on water resources planning and management: assessment and challenges Stochastic environmental research and risk assessment, 25(4), 583-600

The book presents an investigation of the potential effects of climate change, water resources, and global warming especially in the UK. The author introduces the science of global warming and its potential effects of the above listed on the hydrological processes. He also outlines the water balance. The author also describes the methodology behind climate change and the process of impact assessment. The author also outlines the methods, which are applicable to create future scenarios of climate change using the appropriate scales and time in relation to the hydrological studies. The author also describes a case study reaching to the ...