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Understanding Global Warming: Effects, Feedback Mechanisms, and Management Solutions

This piece explores the role of greenhouse gases in regulating the Earth's temperature, emphasizing the impact of human activity on global warming. It qualitatively discusses the consequences of increased mean global temperatures on food supplies, water resources, and ecosystems. The piece also covers feedback mechanisms related to temperature rise and evaluates pollution management strategies like the Kyoto Protocol. Solutions such as electric cars, nuclear power, and hydropower are analyzed, considering their advantages and disadvantages, including the implications of the Japanese nuclear disaster and the Three Gorges Dam.

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Understanding Global Warming: Effects, Feedback Mechanisms, and Management Solutions

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  1. Global warming

  2. Describe the role of greenhouse gases in maintaining mean global temperatures Human activity has recently…

  3. Discuss qualitatively the potential effects of increased mean global temperature Food supplies:

  4. Water:

  5. Ecosystems:

  6. Discuss the feedback mechanisms that would be associated with an increase in mean global temperature + -

  7. Describe and evaluate pollution management strategies to address the issue of global warming General: Kyoto:

  8. Outline the arguments surrounding global warming For human induced: Against human induced:

  9. Evaluate contrasting human perceptions of the issue of global warming 4 people:

  10. Solution: Electric cars The advantages and disadvantages (include limitations) of electric cars

  11. Solution: Nuclear power How nuclear power is made Its advantages Its disadvantages The Japanese nuclear disaster

  12. Solution: HEP The advantages The disadvantages The Three Gorges Dam

  13. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/world/global_warming/newsid_1575000/1575441.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/world/global_warming/newsid_1575000/1575441.stm • http://www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/teaching/resources/science/greenhouse_effect.aspx • http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/geography/environmental-hazards/revise-it/causes-and-effects-of-global-warming • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/climate_change/greenhouse_effect_rev1.shtml • http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/

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