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Global Climate Change

Climate Change

The Earth’s average temperature has been increasing since the mid-20th century. Scientists believe the global warming is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuel and deforestation. Opponents propose the Earth’s global climate naturally fluctuates.

The elevated temperature will cause sea levels to rise due to melting glaciers, change the pattern of precipitation as well as the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions, and will affect agriculture.

Solutions include reducing emissions to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

While there is a scientific consensus is that global climate change is occurring, the political and public debate continues.


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  • EPA SmartWay: Any way you ship it, move it the SmartWay.Apr 09, 2013

    EPA SmartWay is a public/private collaboration with a goal to make the freight industry more sustainable.

    EPA SmartWay is a public/private collaboration with a goal to make the freight industry more sustainable. EPA and its SmartWay partners are advancing technologies and operational practices in the freight supply chain that are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and annually saving shippers and their freight carriers millions of dollars in fuel and related operational costs. more

  • Scorched EarthJul 17, 2012

    Drought blankets more than half the United States. more

  • Chevron Addresses Climate ChangeApr 23, 2012

  • The Provisional New Seven Wonders of NatureNov 14, 2011

    Bernard Weber recently declared the provisional announcement of the New7Wonders of Nature from the N7W Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. more

  • Environmental Art ExhibitionJul 25, 2011

    Ice Art

    A Brazilian artist sculpted one thousand miniature ice men and placed them in Berlin, Germany, signifying the importance of global warming. more


Whitepapers

  • Energy Market and Economic Impacts of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

    This report responds to a request to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) from Chairman Henry Waxman and Chairman Edward Markey for an analysis of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA).1 ACESA, as passed by the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009, is a complex bill that regulates emissions of greenhouse gases through market-based mechanisms, efficiency programs, and economic incentives. more