Global Climate Change
At the largest scale,
climate change has come to symbolise humanity’s unsustainable actions.
Please take a moment to read
the ‘Climate Change’ and ‘Sources of Greenhouse Gasses’ pdf’s below
Weather patterns appear to
be increasingly extreme and unpredictable. This seems to be a result of
atmospheric pollution, caused by the heavy consumption of fossil fuels that is
releasing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other dangerous gasses. The
situation is made worse by human destruction of the rainforest that would
otherwise help to absorb such pollution.
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Climate change, in
particular human-instigated climate change, is not universally accepted;
however, let us now examine the scientific evidence. We will also consider how
Arts and Humanities research can help to make the case for Global Warming,
which has been linked to atmospheric concentrations in greenhouse gasses
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