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Global warming: Is it as bad as it's made out to be?

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    by Pat Lunsford

    Is global warming as bad as it's made out to be? I have been following both sides of this issue for some time and to be perfectly honest, there is compelling evidence on both sides. However, anytime we are faced with somet...read more

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    by Christopher Lamport

    Looking out of the eighty-second floor of the Empire State Building, a makeshift houseboat floats unpowered, wherever the winds decide to take it. The once bustling metropolis known as New York City now looks akin to a pos...read more

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    by Daniela Hendea

    Memories Sculpted in Ice I don't remember exactly when the world started talking about Global Warming, but slowly it became one of the most popular subjects. Discussed mostly at high levels, it seemed to belong rather t...read more

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    by Jerry Hodge

    "Global Warming is having a dangerous impact on our planet." These are the words of Tom Brokaw, well known newsman, during a television special on Global warming several weeks ago. Twenty years ago the scientific commu...read more

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    by Michael Gil

    There has been much hype in recent years about global warming. Despite the widespread knowledge that climate change is occurring, how much does anyone actually know about the subject? Let me just say that Global warming is...read more

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    by Steve Peifer

    I believe global warming is real and very significant. I have also heard that I am a member of the church of global warming, said to me as an insult by a person that I though previously was intelligent. Certain fact...read more

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    by Rob Dacosta

    Every day the worlds population grows. Six billion and counting ..... More food is needed. More resources are used. More everything is moved around on the earths' surface. Consumption, consumption, consumption. A...read more

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    by Ian Loft

    Global warming is the latest of dire warnings issued by many of the world governments in the 21st century. The subsequent confusion of interest groups twisting and distorting facts to suit individual agendas, government b...read more

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    by James Davies

    Climate Change Beware the Hype ! As a teenager in 1976 I wrote an essay that mentiioned the greenhouse effect and I have watched with a strange mixture of amazement, trepidation and satisfactionn that at long last the ...read more

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    by JoAnn Powell

    Is global warming real? You betcha! According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change it is. They have concluded that global warming does indeed exist, and that it is more than likely caused by anthropogenic gr...read more

  • by Nancy L. Young-Houser

    A study funded primarily by the National Science Foundation and NASA has found that melting of glaciers and ice caps will be more of a factor in the rise of sea levels than the huge ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. ...read more

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    by Paul Lines

    Is global warming as bad as it is made out to be? The answer to that question is probably yes, but there is a lack of understanding in exactly how, where and when it will affect. In addition to the impact by motor vehic...read more

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    by Roger Smith

    The consequences of global warming could be even worse than they are made out to be. The butterfly has fluttered its wings, and we wait for the consequences. Chaos Theory says what appear to be the most inconsequent...read more

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    by Rob O'Hannon

    When it comes to the issue of "Global Warming" denial is not a river in Africa. The issue has been raised that the comparison of the last 100 years seems arbitrary. But the reality is that the technological developments...read more

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    by Julien Doiron

    -Credentials:honor student of science and physics and down to earth. Since the dawn of the oil age which dates all the way back to the midieval ages,yes they use to dump burning oil off castle walls to ward off armies,a...read more

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    by Cedrica

    I certainly don't profess to be an expert on environmental issues but I do read what I can in order to gain a more complete understanding of what is happening to our planet. I read two articles recently about two unrelated...read more

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    by JoeyM

    Global warming is indeed one of the biggest problems that our planet faces, but there is one problem with that. I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me that the winters are getting colder and the summers are get...read more

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    by Delynn

    Anyone who watches the news, Al Gore's documentary, or the National Geographic channel knows that our planet is in some serious trouble: we have been abusing, adapting, and changing it to fit our desires ever since we bega...read more

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    by Dan Dunkin

    Greenhouse Effect, Real or Not Real Are we creating a greenhouse effect with Carbon dioxides and other greenhouse gasses, or is the earth just going through some changes? This is a question for each to ponder, and even ...read more

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    by Zog Toorain

    The necessary dividing line is between "bad" and "serious". We know that Global Warming is a serious problem. The only question is how 'bad' this would be. The level of ice available at the arctic is shrinking every y...read more

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