Homework help! Text on global warming?

Question

In English i have been studying the blue man group text on global warming. For my homework i have been asked to find another text on global warming so i can analyse the language of it. I have been looking for a while and can not find a text. Can someone help please? thanks so much! (:

Answer 1

Here’s some major organisations and links to their policies on climate change…



Microsoft

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/9/9/199b2229-c731-47b2-b420-a6806027d5d5/Climate_Change_Policy.pdf



The World Bank

http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/



ConocoPhillips

http://www.conocophillips.com/EN/susdev/policies/climate_change_position/Pages/index.aspx



Halliburton

http://www.halliburton.com/aboutus/Default.aspx?navid=981&pageid=2506



DuPont

http://www2.dupont.com/Media_Center/en_US/position_statements/global_climate.html



Lloyds of London…

http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/38782611-5ED3-4FDC-85A4-5DEAA88A2DA0/0/FINAL360climatechangereport.pdf



Science and Development Network

http://www.scidev.net/en/climate-change-and-energy/



The World Nuclear Association

http://www.world-nuclear.org/climatechange/



American Chemical Society

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_S%20UPERARTICLE&node_id=1907&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=dc917a%20d4-e96e-49a3-91d2-1e533c3ca637



Standard Chartered Bank

http://www.standardchartered.com/_documents/Standard-Chartered-Climate-Change-Position-Statement.pdf



Bank of America

http://www.banktrack.org/download/bank_of_america_climate_change_position/bofa_policy_climate_change_position.pdf



3M Group

http://mws9.3m.com/mws/mediawebserver.dyn?6666660Zjcf6lVs6EVs66Sfo2COrrrrQ-



Worldwide Fund for Nature

http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/climate_change_adaptation.pdf

Answer 2

notwithstanding if all business pollution and vehicle emissions unexpectedly ceased at present, Earth's climate will heat a minimum of a million degree via the twelve months 2100 and seas will upward push 4 inches (11 centimeters), in accordance to a clean learn. The warming is possibly to proceed by 2400, yet another learn forecasts. The worst-case concern projects the international commonplace temperature increasing 6.3 tiers Fahrenheit interior this century and the sea point mountaineering a foot or extra. The outlook is in step with greenhouse gases that have been contained in the ambience in 2000, without further enter of the chemical compounds, which function a international blanket to capture photograph voltaic capability. "many human beings do no longer understand we are dedicated ideal now to an significant volume of international warming and sea point upward push via greenhouse gases we've already positioned into the ambience," pronounced Gerald Meehl, who led the learn out of the nationwide center for Atmospheric learn (NCAR). "notwithstanding if we stabilize greenhouse gasoline concentrations, the climate will proceed to heat, and there will be proportionately much extra sea point upward push," Meehl pronounced at present. "The longer we wait, the extra climate exchange we are dedicated to contained sooner or later."

Answer 3

I'm afraid to ask.

You need that text right now I'll bet.

IF you have some time to do this I recommend Patrick Michaels' book; I believe this is the text I read: Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (2009), by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr.



Perhaps you can find some on-line materials here: http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels



Good luck!

Answer 4

Oh wahine, don't you know, you no longer use "global warming", White house adviser say we use "global climate disruption", mobetta cause the not have to say if warmer if colder, yeah? No more ridicule when it snow in Phoenix, in May, ok? So now "warmies" called "disrupties", ok?

I feel sorry for you, you probably in public school, waste all that time learning bout something, AGW, that not real.

Peace and aloha from Hawaii.

Answer 5

http://scholar.google.com has tons of them. Just do a search and you'll find what you need.



Global warming sociology - http://ireswb.cc.ku.edu/~crgc/NSFWorkshop/Readings/Lever-Tracy%2520Current%2520Sociology%25202008.pdf



Global warming economics - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.1173&rep=rep1&type=pdf



Impacts of climate change - http://frontpage.wesleyan.edu/deans/firstyearmatters/Parmesan-Yohe%2520Nature.pdf



etc...

Answer 6

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/



http://greenpeace.org

http://nrdc.org

Answer 7

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/04/20/lawrence-solomon-global-warming-doomsayers-continue-to-lose-ground.aspx