Monthly Archives: February 2011

Rough Draft Assignment 2

Rough Draft Assignment 2 by Juliette and Pratheep Climate_Change

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Discussion #2: Air Quality

As you already know, we need to deal with air pollution in order to address global warming! I created a comparison chart to examine Ozone, Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Total reduced sulphur compounds, Carbon monoxide, and Fine particulate matter. As … Continue reading

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Music & Climate Change

There are many ways to express concerns regarding climate change, whether it’s through a movie like Al Gore’s “The Inconvenient Truth”, through published books such as “Climate Wars” by Gwynne Dyer. This week, I want to talk about one of … Continue reading

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Not Climate Change Related, But Still Important!

Hey everyone, I don’t have a partner for the assignment (due this Friday!), and we aren’t allowed to work by ourselves. If anyone has room for another partner I’ll do whatever you need me to. My e-mail address is dilair.singh@utoronto.ca … Continue reading

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Discussion#1: How do you use the resources of the environment?

Hello, guys! In order to deal with global warming, I think we need to consider how we use the resources of the environment day by day! So I just wanted to have a discussion on this topic..:) Let’s check around … Continue reading

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Gaia – edited

In deciding what to write this blog post about, I found myself looking at notes from a course I took last semester called “Introduction to Environmental Studies”.  The course, taught by Professor Stephen Sharper, provided me with a brief but … Continue reading

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UPDATE: Making the difference: The Green School

  “The film the inconvenient truth has ruined my life after the day I’ve watched it.” Said John Hardy, the co-founder of the Green School at the TED talk. Don’t get him wrong readers! He didn’t mean this in a … Continue reading

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Communicating climate change

Hey, readers. This is my second blog and it’s actually a follow-up to my previous blog titled “Misconceptions about Climate Change”. I was delighted to see that many people read it and more than a few of the readers took … Continue reading

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UPDATE: Ozone Layer Depletion and Global Warming

It is found that continuation of global warming will worsen the ozone depletion. Ozone depletion becomes worse when the location of the ozone layer, called Stratosphere, gets colder. Since global warming confines heat in the Troposphere, less heat gets to the Stratosphere which will make … Continue reading

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UPDATE: Asian Brown Cloud/Haze

In recent years, more and more people have started to take notice on how much the weather and climate has been changing. Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials into the atmosphere. These pollutants can … Continue reading

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