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How global warming will directly impact our children's health and future 24 Articles

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    by Chaz Z.

    As polar ice melting is to global warming, so global warming is to pollution in general. Global warming is one matter of a very large issue. It is our constant dumping, wasting, and releasing of toxins that causes ...read more

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    by Ethel Smith

    If predictions are right regarding global warming then I think the future holds many new challenges . Our children's health and future will be very different from the days of our youth . Changes in the quality of air w...read more

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    by Pat Lunsford

    In June 2008, James Hansen, dubbed the godfather of global warming science, told congress that greenhouse gasses had surpassed dangerous levels and that it was time for drastic action. "This is the last chance," he said...read more

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    by Ginger Kazay

    Regardless of whether global warming is a "part of the natural cycle" or it is caused by man's interference with the environment; our children and their children will feel the impact. How it will impact them, depends o...read more

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    by Royce Radcliffe

    It is frightening to me how otherwise intelligent people brush global warming off as something that is so beyond our control that there is nothing we can do to stop it. They nihilistically continue to engage in the same ha...read more

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    by Lupine

    Nobody really knows how global warming is going to impact our children's health and future. Scientists can make predictions but anybody who has been around the block a few times knows you have to take those predictions wi...read more

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    by Ted Sherman

    Question: How could something that may not exist have any influence on our children? In spite of Al Gore's efforts and those who are even more rabid about global warming than he is, the theory that the earth is burning up ...read more

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    by Chandra Janean

    Global warming will directly impact our children's health and future in many ways. The decline of air quality leads to an increase of asthma, respiratory illness and failure. Rising sea levels and melting ice sheets which ...read more

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    by Charlie Whitworth

    Interview with Rt Hon David Miliband, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs As the news that British Chancellor Gordon Brown would become the next leader of the UK Labour Party filtered through Lo...read more

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    by Lauren Baird

    The impacts of global warming on our children's health and future are dependent on your socio-economic status and your geographic location. For example, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that already 150 000 deat...read more

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    by Sadia Awan

    Picture a young girl living in in South Asia. The effects of climate change have caused serious problems in her life. Rain is less regular over ther and storms are stronger. Ocean levels have risen and flooding has damaged...read more

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    by Scott Cameron

    It wont. Or more accurately, nothing we can do as a society or a species is likely to have the least affect. But the glaciers are melting. Kilimanjaro has lost its snow cap. Ocean levels are rising. The Polar Ice Caps ...read more

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    by Sarah Afshar

    Global warming is something I refer to as a "future present problem". I say this because although it isn't a problem right now (in the present) we are aware of it becoming a problem eventually and it just may be a problem ...read more

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    by Will Kester

    If your children and grandchildren live near the coasts where hurricanes are frequent, they can expect more and stronger hurricanes as the ocean's water temperature rises. If they live where tornadoes are common, they can...read more

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    by Anima Mundi

    This shouldn't be a theoretical question about what may happen in the future. The health effects of global warming, to both our children and ourselves, is already occurring. The question now is how bad will it get. The ...read more

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    by Richard Serra

    In our children's lifetime, our planet will have one last perfect day. From that point on the best days are less than that last perfect day and continue to be less and less perfect till there are no more days that one woul...read more

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    by Angela S. Young

    Global warming is the mantra for many of today's politicians. Unfortunately, global warming is a myth, or at the very least, not proved yet. Climates and temperatures are cyclical and they will change over time. Many peop...read more

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    by C. R. Dean

    Topic: Pollution Body: In the year 2006-2007 we have been having abnormal weather conditions. We have had flowers blooming in new york in winter and snow in the desert and sleet in Florida in summer. It is all based ar...read more

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    by Robert D. Twitchell

    Global warming? The hot button topic of the day. What will it be in twenty years...asteroids...supervo lcanos? It seems that every generation has a global threat that must be dealt with immediately for the sake of all ma...read more

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    by Me...Again

    If anyone in this day and age can honestly think global warming is not real, they are seriously in denial. I can't help but think those who don't believe in G.W. are those who prosper financially from the proliferation of ...read more

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