Scientists admit it is difficult to fix specific weather patterns to global warming as there are simply too many factors involved. For one, it recently became known that the fallen leaves of trees also produce methane gas and scientist are scrambling to include this factor into the global warming equation. However, observations of [...]
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1. Global warming is real and it is happening. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies reports that average temperatures have risen 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880 and much of the increase happened in the recent parts of the 19th and 20th centuries. Data from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) corroborate this [...] Global Warming has been attributed to a phenomenon called the Greenhouse Effect, inferring that the warming of the Earth’s surface and the atmosphere is somehow similar to what a regular greenhouse does. This common notion isn’t exactly right as a real greenhouse works by trapping the heat within a transparent enclosure whereas the Greenhouse [...] Tragedies are not limited to Shakespeare, botanical history is also littered with them. Such is the story of the American Chestnut Tree. Before the 1990’s, the American Chestnut was the dominant tree species (approximately 40%) in the forest of the Eastern United States. The American Chestnut was highly priced for its beautiful and durable [...] |
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