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Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?

Greenhouse Effect Solar radiation absorbed/reflected from earth Infrared radiation emitted/reabsorbed in atmosphere

Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth

Increased CO2 Emissions

Increased Global Temperatures

Temperature Deviations

Melting Ice Regions Arctic

Melting Ice Regions Greenland

Melting Ice Regions Antarctica

Melting Ice Regions Antarctica Particularly in the peninsula

Changing Weather Higher Temperatures More Moisture Turbulence Water is rerouted

Flooding Some areas receive more rainfall

Drought Some receive less Soil evaporation

Self Correcting Problem? New York Los Angeles San Francisco Beijing India 634 million people* Asia and poor nations at greatest risk * ming/ sea-level-rise_N.htm

Skepticism

Less Cloud Cover Increased absorption of radiation

Skepticism Increased temperatures Increase cloud cover Increases deflection of radiation

Skepticism

Skepticism Republican Democrat

Skepticism

So What?

What We Can Do

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