Transactions of the Royal Society of South AfricaFinn, I. 2008. How is global warming affecting our daily life in South Africa and what can we do about it? Royal Society national science essay competition 2007 & 2008, 63(2): 191-193, October....
GlobalWarmingEssay: FactsaboutGlobalWarmingSpread Environmental Awareness and Encourage Fight againstGlobalWarmingThrough YourGlobalWarmingEssay The definition ofGlobalwarmingis‚ “The observed and projected increase in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans”. Human actions‚ primarily th...
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a UK-based think tank founded by former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson with the purpose of combating what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. The group was established on November 22, ...
South Africa's Global Citizen festival, held in order to honour the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth and make commitments to counter global poverty, came to a close after having raised billions of dollars for humanitarian causes. Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 Summary: In an essay publi...
“No matter if thescience of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” –Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment “We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. ...
Except I thought the TV meteorologist had just said the poles were that much warmer now which is what was the causing the jet stream to dip south. So what is all that cold air up north doing there ready to sink south if they just said the poles were warming? They ...
The denial of the science of global warming is for some of the same reasons (it’s easier, lack of trust in experts) but largely due to capitalism and the desire for profit. The ministers of capitalism are not about to cede authority to scientists, not on this issue at least. There ar...
REVIEW ESSAY Globalising knowledges Patrick L.J. Bailey* Faculty of Policy and Society, Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK Education, indigenous knowledges, and development in the Global South: contesting knowledges for a sustainable future, by Anders Breidlid, New York, Rout...
Guest essay by Rich Enthoven Recently, NASA released its annual report on global temperatures and reported that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, surpassed only by three recent years. This claim was accompanied by dire predictions of climate ch
Rising Seas Not Down To Global Warming A new study shows that global warming is not the only cause of swelling seas. Much comes from "water mining" – the pumping of vast amounts of groundwater from beneath the earth, mainly to irrigate crops. This inevitably ends up in the oceans...