Is it Getting Hot Here?

These megacities take up approximately only 2 percent of the Earth's land surface, yet they account for roughly 75 percent of industrial wood use, 60 percent of human water use, and nearly 80 percent of all human produced carbon emissions.

What's the deal with global warming anyway? Is it real and if it is, what kind is it? Is it occuring now or will it occur later? Has it occuring in the past? Is it really possible to tell if it's happening and why? If it is happening, so what?

The United States has an opportunity, the very last one, in 2008 to return our planet to its natural state. As an international leader, it is America's responsibility to improve the health of our struggling global ecology.

This paper was written in 1999 in Colorado and assessess the pros and cons to natural gas and electricity, and also alternatives such as solar and wind power, hydropower and wood burning. The popularity of wind and solar power have since increased.

One of the most pressing social issues of the 21st century, both in the United States and abroad, will be human population growth and its effect on global climate change.

During George W. Bush's first term in office, his administration initiated more than 200 rollbacks of environmental laws. These moves serve to benefit big corporations, which are no longer inconvenienced by having to comply with strict pollution control s