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This is an article about the tectonic plates that make up the crust of our planet.

This was a very informative website about tectonic plates. It talked about where plates are found and boundaries made by these plates.

This was a very good article about the movements of tectonic plates. One of the most interesting facts that I had learned from reading the article was that the tectonic plates make up earths outer shell called the lithosphere. There were also many different things that I didn't know about such as that if the plates keep diverging in the Great Rift Valley in Africa, millions of years from now, eastern Africa will split apart from the continent creating a new continent. the three different types of Tectonic Boundaries are called convergent, divergent, and transform.

Has cool maps and facts to show that climate change is trully happening

How climate change is affecting the animals.

This website shows how people in Bangladesh deal with global warming by fusing their rice paddies with fish farms.

This site is about how insects give us views on climate change.

This website is created especially for kids by EPA. On the home page, you can choose to read about climate change in any one region in the US. This page gives you detailed information about each region through maps, other pictures, and text. The website states that in the northern part of the Great Planes, average winter temperatures have increased by as much as 7 degrees. It also states that as of 2085, precipitation in the northern Great Planes may increase by as much as 40% and may decrease by that much in the South (including Colorado)! Yet another upsetting fact is that water is expected to become a major problem in this region, with the water supply in the Ogallala aquifer, the Great Planes main source of water, decreasing, while the population and heat are increasing rapidly.

This site has different questions that are frequently asked by many people about climate change.

This website gives a wide variety of information on the issue of climate change in the U.S

This is a good site if someone wants to find good climate change facts.

The diagram is very interesting--the climate is definitely getting warmer!

This website has a slide show that shows the current temperatures of the seasons in Wisconsin, historical temperatures, predictions of the temperature, and many other temperatures. In the future, scientists predict that there will be heavy precipitation, 90° days, and many other things!

Here is an article about how global warming and climate change have melted ice in the Arctic Ocean, opening up some new shipping routes.

It describes with good details how influential global warming can be. Global warming can be a very essential thing when many scientists have been surprised by all these new shipping routes in the Arctic Ocean.

I thought this was interesting, it wasn't as negative! It showed how when the ice melts there will be more ship routes, which I thought was odd, because they talked about that, not really about the other affect melted ice will have for wildlife and the rest of the world!

This website talks about how the climate has gone from a cooling period to a sudden heat wave in the 20th century

This article talked about multiple things. One of them was what are certain gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. Another topic that was covered was how human actions and courses change the green house effect. This article backed up my theories because it is helping to prove that climate change does exist.

This is about climate change in California.

The website shows how you can take ashes and make them into diamonds and jewelry

I think that it is crazy that the temperature has to go up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit! Then the carbon turns into graphite. This process takes a few weeks. I think that it's very cool that you can turn ashes into diamonds.

This is really interesting how cremations can turn into diamonds with very high pressure and heat but I don't think this is really relevant to our unite. If you get one you can always keep your grandma close to your heart...literally.

This post is not just about plain old global warming, it is about why global warming is not believed. "Why Americans don't believe in global warming?" Is it only us? Are we a threat? What percentage of Americans support fixing climate change programs? YOU HAVE TO READ TO FIND OUT! It is about the Economy, Politics, and beliefs of global warming.

Great discourse on the American reluctance to support climate change. There could be a bunch of factors- some political, some religious (!) or just for arguments sake!

This song is about the earth, and the way it's affecting us. He says "we can hardly breathe" which is a reference to the pollution and bad air that's in the atmosphere which trap the heat from the sun in. He is saying that humans are neglecting to consider the future!

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Although emerging markets are a very large portion of the problem, they are necessary for any solution. Most books that talk about the environment has the West as the starting point. This is a very understandable starting place. For many decades the United States of America has been the largest polluter, contributing to the problem more than any other country in the world. Europe, has environmental laws to negotiate new and different solutions. Now Europe and the United States of America are only in supporting roles. Now the leaders are China and India. China emites nearly half of current global emissions. India accounted for 83% of the worldwide increase of carbon emissions from the years 2000-2011. Global warming started with industrialized countries. But, it can only end with developing ones. India and China are fully engrossed in growth of the countries. To continue to feed this growth they are building more and more coal-fired power stations, which is a very bad form of energy. The cities in China and India fume smoke and the rivers are catching on fire. Global warming will effect developing countries very much more then rich ones. A little bit because tropical and sub tropical areas are much more sensitive to warming and cooling temperatures. Richer areas can pay for better flood control and drought-resistent seeds that poor countries. William Cline, an economist, estimated a rise of merely 2.5% in temperature wold cause a 6% decrees in agriculture productivity in the United States of America. but in India there would be a 38% decrees. China and India are very vulnerable. New economic giants (such as China and India) will have to push rich countries to make more environmental compromises. Messrs Mattoo and Submaranian estimate that if China and India want to cut their carbon emissions by 30% in 2020, their production rate would fall 6-7% and the manufactured exports would be effected much more than that. Poor countries cannot handle the issues as well.