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Articles with tag: global warming

Effects of Climate Change and Bio-Energy

NoorAli Noorani   Nov 9, 2008   interacts: 7

In Asia, temperatures are expected to rise 2-8 degrees Celsius in next 8-10 years affecting climatic variations like decreased rainfall, crop failures and more floods.

Global Warming: Green with Controversy

Mutaal Mooquin   Aug 15, 2008   interacts: 8

Its effects will happen 30 years down the road, and then you say, "Okay, do something about it."

Paper Trail

Mutaal Mooquin   Jun 5, 2008   interacts: 6

To produce five sheets of 8 x 11 inch paper we use the equivalent energy of an 80 watt bulb operating for an hour; but at a cost far greater than that of electricity.

Who Moved My Cheese

Saima Shah   Jun 2, 2008   interacts: 87

Mr Gore wasn’t afraid of looking foolish, he’d take his presentation wherever people would listen. His persistence ended up creating a climate of global acceptance of global warming.

Karachi’s Plastic Bag Ban

Zainub Razvi   Apr 2, 2007   interacts: 12

The ban applies to not just the manufactures and sellers but also the users of the plastic bags. Yes, that means us.

Venus, Earth, and Mars - The Untold Story

Muhammad A Hussain   Jan 23, 2007   interacts: 13

Some scientists speculate that the three planets, Venus, Earth, and Mars, shared approximately similar geology at the time of their cooling from their molten newly-born states. The evolution of these three planets along different lines from a similar dist

The Globe Is Warm

Saima Shah   Jun 14, 2006   interacts: 19

Global warming has been suspended as in global w-a-r-m-i-n-g? Like deferred taxation it is something we will reckon with whenever, if ever. Is it time for the skeleton in the closet to be acknowledged?

Deforestation and Drought

Arshad Abbasi   Jun 6, 2006   interacts: 6

Massive deforestation started in the 1990s. Between 1990 and 2000 Pakistan lost an average of 41,100 hectares of forest per year with an average annual deforestation rate of 1.63 per cent. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate increased to 2.02 per cent per ann

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