Global
Warming
| "80% of greenhouse gases are produced by only 122 corporations, which act as 'carbon pushers' comparable to drug pushers. The... conclusion is obvious: these 122 corporations are jeopardizing the integrity of the entire global ecosystem, endangering the future for all children, and holding the world's people and their governments hostage by a combination of bribery and brute force. A simple question: Why do we allow such antisocial -- even sociopathic -- behavior to go unrewarded by prison sentences for culpable executives and boards of directors?" --Peter Montague, "The Carbon Pushers," Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly #664, 19 August 1999 |
Assigned outside reading
Miller, pp. 244-258
Assigned online reading
Some Solutions to Global Warming
Video shown in class
Arctic Meltdown, Rising Seas (32 min.) -- Examines environmental stress on native cultures in the Marshall Islands and Alaska.
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| Part of the problem... | Forgiving "good faith efforts"... |
Questions to answer concerning
global warming:
1. Describe clearly in words how the greenhouse effect operates.
2. What are four important greenhouse gases, and the major sources to the atmosphere of each?
3. How does deforestation affect the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? (Describe the process)
4. Quantitatively (using numbers), how has the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide changed (a) since the industrial revolution, and (b) since 1958?
5. What major evidence suggests that increases in greenhouse gases due to human activities are causing global warming? (Include comment about 1999 & 2000 temperatures)
6. Describe five pieces of circumstantial evidence that global warming is occurring.
(see Gelbspan article)7. What are at least four specific actions that can be taken to reduce the rate of global warming?
8. Why and how does the World Bank promote global warming?
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| Feeling hotter... |
Optional Resources concerning Global Warming
Thomas Detwyler maintains this page (tdetwyle@uwsp.edu)
Last updated 8 June 2001
