{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"44132915","dateCreated":"1318459224","smartDate":"Oct 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mseverino1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mseverino1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/sac-global-issues.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/44132915"},"dateDigested":1532427917,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Global Warming","description":"http:\/\/www.nmsea.org\/Curriculum\/Primer\/Global_Warming\/fossil_fuels_and_global_warming.htm<\/a> Good website for this topic","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"44222018","body":"Global warming is caused by greenhouse gases that are emitted by many things like large factories producing lots of carbon pollution.It gets into the atmosphere and after to much pollution it alters the climate in which we live in today.","dateCreated":"1318552592","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Connorwat","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Connorwat","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318392505\/Connorwat-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44224830","body":"Global warming is when the earth heats up (the temperature rises). It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth\u2019s atmosphere, which increases the temperature. This hurts many people, animals, and plants. Many cannot take the change, so they die.","dateCreated":"1318554224","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Squid_salad","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Squid_salad","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44225680","body":"To my knowledge, there has been a hole detected above antartica. because of what Squid_salad eplained. these stranded green house gasses have cased this hole.","dateCreated":"1318554751","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"inb4u","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/inb4u","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318806906\/inb4u-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44226514","body":"Greenhouse gases are the causes of global warming, massive building facilities, big machinery and most housing facilities are major factors in this, These things cause carbon pollution which also causes are ozone layer to deplete and break which contributes to the factor of our weather changing.","dateCreated":"1318555243","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"maxalexander","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/maxalexander","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"43941630","dateCreated":"1318219572","smartDate":"Oct 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"htebbutt","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/htebbutt","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318807652\/htebbutt-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/sac-global-issues.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/43941630"},"dateDigested":1532427918,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Political alignment and global warming","description":"Political alignment and global warming
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\nIn most English-speaking countries, support for action to mitigate global warming, such as ratification and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol is strong on the political left.
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\nHowever, the first politician putting Global Warming on the political agenda was Richard Nixon 1969[2]. Nixon wanted environmental topics (as acid rain and greenhouse effect) to be treated by a third and civil pillar of NATO. The reaction of the NATO allies was lukewarm but the initiative gained impact in the civil field.[2]
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\nIn the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher was instrumental in increasing the United Kingdom's electricity generation from North Sea gas and reducing generation from coal.[3]
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\nIn Germany Angela Merkel, then secretary of the environment during the conservative Helmut Kohl government, lead the German Kyoto Delegation and had a substantial role in making the Kyoto agreement possible.[4]
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\nIn December 2007, Kevin Rudd's first act as prime minister of Australia was to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in time for the Kyoto Protocol talks in Bali.[5]
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\nIn Canada, the Liberal Party government ratified Kyoto.
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\nIn New Zealand, the Labour government of Helen Clark ratified Kyoto.
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\nIn the United Kingdom, the Labour Party ratified Kyoto
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\nIn the United States, Bill Clinton's Administration signed Kyoto and Democrats have proposed and supported a number of bills to mitigate emissions. Although Kyoto is signed, subsequent sessions of Congress failed to ratify the treaty and thus the United States is not bound to it. US diplomats have conceded the treaty will never be ratified. "We are not going to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. That is out," said US climate negotiator Jonathan Pershing at the 2009 Bangkok Climate Change Talks.[6] Barack Obama supported passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act to establish a United States Carbon Cap and Trade Program; while the bill was approved in the House of Representatives, it was not taken up in the Senate.
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\nIn some countries the political right are fighting on a platform of taking tough action against global warming,[7] while in others the political right either dispute the scientific consensus on global warming or oppose action to mitigate global warming, instead favoring adaption.[citation needed] All European countries have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and all have supported strong reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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\nIn the United States, a February 2007 survey found that 95% of the 41 Congressional Democrats surveyed agreed "it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is warming because of man-made problems" while only 13% of the 31 Republicans surveyed agreed.[8]
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\nGlobal warming skepticism has been promoted by newspapers associated with the right such as The Australian, the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom and the National Post in Canada.[9]
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\nAsia and OceaniaAustralia officially ratified the Kyoto Protocol, after the new Labor government came into power on December 3, 2007.[5] The previous Coalition government had long objected to ratifying the treaty, arguing it would unduly impact on Australian jobs, especially when countries such as China, India and the U.S. were not party to it.
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\nJapan is preparing to force industry to make big cuts in greenhouse gases, taking the lead in a country struggling to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations.[10]
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\nCanadaCanada's Liberal Government during the 1990s had agreed to Kyoto but oversaw the increase of greenhouse gas emissions during their terms in office and did little to meet Kyoto's targets. Canada's current Conservative Government has claimed that, due to increased emissions since 1990, it is realistically impossible to meet their Kyoto targets and attempting to do so would be disastrous for the Canadian economy. Current Prime Minister Stephen Harper has come under fire for being adamant in leaving Kyoto and working on a different climate plan. Consequently, this issue has become something of an Achilles Heel for the Government in recent months. The current Liberal Party has been quick in their condemnation of the Government but has also been accused of using Global Warming for political purposes as seen in the naming of leader St\u00e9phane Dion's dog 'Kyoto'.
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\nEuropeMain article: European Climate Change Programme
\nRussia signed the Kyoto Protocol in November 2004, after a deal with the European Union over WTO membership. Russia's ratification completed the requirements of the treaty to come into force, based on nations totaling 55% of world greenhouse gas emissions.
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\nThe UK government-commissioned Stern Review into the economic effects of climate change was published in October 2006. Tony Blair's assessment was that it showed that scientific evidence of global warming was "overwhelming" and its consequences "disastrous". He added, "We can't wait the five years it took to negotiate Kyoto \u2014 we simply don't have the time. We accept we have to go further [than Kyoto]."[11] The UK government launched an official calculator in the week of June 18, 2007 that enables every person in the country to work out how much carbon dioxide they produce and how to cut it.[12] Tory group sets out plans for Green Revolution.[13] In the UK campaign group Camp for Climate Action aims to keep climate change on the political agenda, using direct action against major carbon emitters.
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\nUnited StatesMain article: Climate change policy of the United States
\nThe politics of global warming is played out at a state and federal level in the United States. Attempts to draw up climate change policy are being made at a state level to a greater extent than at a federal level.
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\nVaticanPope Benedict XVI told up to half a million people, over a hillside near the Adriatic city of Loreto on the day Catholic Church marks its annual Save Creation Day, that world leaders must make courageous decisions to save the planet "before it is too late".","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"43941764","body":"very useful well detailed information about ways to stop Global Warming. With campaigns such as the Uk group to help put a stop to Global Warming","dateCreated":"1318219735","smartDate":"Oct 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bclarke7","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bclarke7","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44357006","body":"copy paste henry ?","dateCreated":"1318806746","smartDate":"Oct 16, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"inb4u","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/inb4u","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318806906\/inb4u-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"43941490","dateCreated":"1318219245","smartDate":"Oct 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"sbarrett4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sbarrett4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/sac-global-issues.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/43941490"},"dateDigested":1532427918,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Global Warming (greenhouse effect)","description":"What is the greenhouse effect?
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\nThe greenhouse effect is when the temperature rises because the sun\u2019s heat and light is trapped in the earth\u2019s atmosphere. This is like when heat is trapped in a car. On a very hot day, the car gets hotter when it is out in the parking lot. This is because the heat and light from the sun can get into the car, by going through the windows, but it can\u2019t get back out. This is what the greenhouse effect does to the earth. The heat and light can get through the atmosphere, but it can\u2019t get out. As a result, the temperature rises.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"43941742","body":"Greenhouse gasses are gasses are in the earth\u2019s atmosphere that collect heat and light from the sun. With too many greenhouse gasses in the air, the earth\u2019s atmosphere will trap too much heat and the earth will get too hot. As a result people, animals, and plants would die because the heat would be too strong.","dateCreated":"1318219679","smartDate":"Oct 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"sbarrett4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sbarrett4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44077993","body":"How much temperature rise due you think will have major effects on the earth and what will be some of these things?","dateCreated":"1318390699","smartDate":"Oct 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"gvick","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/gvick","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44226770","body":"The temperature rising could have dramatic effects on our lives and ecosystems around the world. Even small increases in temperature could make living conditions uncomfortable for various animals, causing them to move elsewhere possibly disrupting the food chains.","dateCreated":"1318555391","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Squid_salad","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Squid_salad","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"43941208","dateCreated":"1318218830","smartDate":"Oct 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"goo1309","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/goo1309","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/sac-global-issues.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/43941208"},"dateDigested":1532427919,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"nuclear power","description":"Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and do useful work. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13\u201314% of the world's electricity,[1] with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity.In 2007, the IAEA reported there were 439 nuclear power reactors in operation in the world,[3] operating in 31 countries.[4] Also, more than 150 naval vessels using nuclear propulsion have been built.
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\nThere is an ongoing debate about the use of nuclear energy.[5][6][7] Proponents, such as the World Nuclear Association and IAEA, contend that nuclear power is a sustainable energy source that reduces carbon emissions.[8] Opponents, such as Greenpeace International and NIRS, believe that nuclear power poses many threats to people and the environment.[9][10][11]
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\nNuclear power plant accidents include the Chernobyl disaster (1986), Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (2011), and the Three Mile Island accident (1979).[12] There have also been some nuclear-powered submarine mishaps.[13][14][12] However, the safety record of nuclear power is good when compared with many other energy technologies.[15] Research into safety improvements is continuing[16] and nuclear fusion may be used in the future.
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\nChina has 25 nuclear power reactors under construction, with plans to build many more,[17] while in the US the licenses of almost half its reactors have been extended to 60 years,[18] and plans to build another dozen are under serious consideration.[19] However, Japan's 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster prompted a rethink of nuclear energy policy in many countries.[20] Germany decided to close all its reactors by 2022, and Italy has banned nuclear power.[20] Following Fukushima, the International Energy Agency halved its estimate of additional nuclear generating capacity to be built by 2035.[21]","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"43933494","dateCreated":"1318208245","smartDate":"Oct 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"gvick","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/gvick","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/sac-global-issues.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/43933494"},"dateDigested":1532427919,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"How much of this is natural and how much is caused by human activity?","description":"Can you find any facts either way?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"43941390","body":"Global warming is caused by a process called the Greenhouse effect. When humans create green house gases such as carbon dioxided and carbon monoxide, into the air they form clouds of gas that trap the earths heat and rebound it, causing the earth to heat up. as a result of this, the ozone layer, has been found to have holes in it. the ozone layer is a section in earths atmospheare that keeps out the harmful UV rays from the Sun.
\nthe constant heating of the earth has caused the glaciers on the polar icecaps to melt, which rises to ocean levels. so using that infomation, global warming is a caused by human activity but it then sets off a series of natural events.","dateCreated":"1318219167","smartDate":"Oct 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nobrien95","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nobrien95","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318391753\/nobrien95-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44227004","body":"There has always been variations in the earths climate and temperature over the centuries. There have always been some years that were warmer than normal and some years that were colder than normal.
\nHowever, one would be stupid to deny the facts of global warming. And that facts indicate that the earths temperature is increasing-faster than normal! Over the last 100 years, the earths average surface temperature has risen about 1 degree Celcius, with about two thirds of the increase occuring over the last three decades. This is definetely out of the ordinary and scientists are 90% certain that the rise in global temperature can be attributed to human activities such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels.","dateCreated":"1318555521","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"rmaguire7","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/rmaguire7","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}