SOS.. help me slam my republican professor

[stop the bleeding]

Hello boys and girls. I am trying to find a credible article of at least 2500 words that strongly supports the belief that any or all aspects of the planet are in rough shape (effects of global warming, deforestation, air/water pollution, etc.). My prof is a staunch republican but still has some brain activity, so I'm looking for something good enough to get under his skin. If anyone can help many blessings will be sent your way... :spank:

[skids]

1. This one was good...

http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives-2005/featurevol14ed44.html

....there's discussion in a thread somewhere down below on it.

That's only 900 or so words, but if you find papers by the people cited in the article they are likely full research articles.

[YouthInAsia]

2. start here:

investigate this nightmare that this govt. is allowing because they're soooo deep in the pockets of the Saudi's

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0516-06.htm

[Bjornsdotter]

3. The Arctic

This site deals with the Arctic and it's various problems. Hope it helps.

http://arctic.unep.net/

Cheers!

[midnight armadillo]

4. Try the Union of Concerned Scientists

www.ucsusa.org

They have many publications, and their credentials are impeccable.

[Boomer]

5. Search for DU articles posted by Hatrack

Just a list of all the titles paints a grim picture of the global ecosystem's declinde: crashing fish populations, bleached coral reefs, dying seabird populations, dying forests, growing beetle infestations, failing agricultural regions, prolonged drought, unexpected floods and monsoons, etc etc etc.

[Vogon_Glory]

6. Water and drainage

I live in Texas and have spent a lot of time in the American West. I'd point out that if there isn't a snow pack to produce snow melt in the spring and early summer, a lot of places in the American West are going to be very short of water between mid-April and late September. Some of the cities likely to be affected include Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Tuscon, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and probably Los Angeles.

While I suspect that your prof is capable of higher cognition, I DO NOT understand the mentality of Freepers living in the Far West who want to pretend that rising temperatures wouldn't affect THEM.

[Jose Diablo]

7. But, but isn't that the purpose of college?

To teach someone how to locate and use information. Do you hope to write a paper using copy/paste of others sweat in locating information.

Gosh, maybe there is a 'Cliffs Notes' on this topic. Maybe your professor is not Republican, but just wants you to prove your stand and the appearance of being Republican is to motivate you, to do the work.

Google is your friend. It's simple to use also. Go to http://www.google.com try it its easy, even intuitive.

[stop the bleeding]

8. Thank you for the help from everyone,

I have come across several good articles, but I am still up for more suggestions so if there are additional sources worth mentioning I would be most grateful.

Jose Diablo gets an extra special thank you for pointing out obvious tools that are used on the "INTERNETS" everyday such as the little known Google site.:sarcasm: It is just too bad that he/she thinks that one would stoop so low to paste/plagiarize someone else's work for the sake of a paper. Just for future clarification for anyone else that wishes to help, the assignment was to find 2 articles one of at least 2500 words long that supports a said argument for a said issue. I just happen to pick this issue and this argument for my assignment, and it is just coincidence that my professor is a Republican. Yes I'm Guilty, guilty of trying to get a GOOD article that gets under my professor's skin, big deal.

Once again I would like to thank everyone for their help.

[Jose Diablo]

10. Your welcome, glad to be of help

Now for a more little known and then there is if you wish to search public records. But you know all this, right?

It is strange, a Republican professor, generally most among the highest educated in academia are Democrats. Goes to show that even though statistically a member in a group should have certain characteristics, yet in the 'real' world there are individual elements at the extreme end of each spectrum. Your professor must be an example of this anomaly in statistical averaging.

[philb]

9. Documentation on all of the above

global warming
http://www.flcv.com/green.html

other environmental problems
http://www.flcv.com
plus energy solutions

[PaulaFarrell]

11. Here's another

truly depressing:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0206-01.htm

Published on Sunday, February 6, 2005 by the lndependent/UK
Apocalypse Now: How Mankind is Sleepwalking to the End of the Earth


by Geoffrey Lean

Future historians, looking back from a much hotter and less hospitable world, are likely to play special attention to the first few weeks of 2005. As they puzzle over how a whole generation could have sleepwalked into disaster - destroying the climate that has allowed human civilization to flourish over the past 11,000 years - they may well identify the past weeks as the time when the last alarms sounded.....

[Delphinus]

12. Here's another

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article312997.ece

Global warming 'past the point of no return'
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 16 September 2005
A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.

They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the region is beginning to absorb more heat from the sun, causing the ice to melt still further and so reinforcing a vicious cycle of melting and heating.

A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.
They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the region is beginning to absorb more heat from the sun, causing the ice to melt still further and so reinforcing a vicious cycle of melting and heating.

{snip}

[Delphinus]

13. And this was in my e-mail today

Greenhouse gas 'to rise by 52%'
Global greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 52% by 2030, unless the world takes action to reduce energy consumption, a study has warned.
The prediction comes from the latest annual World Energy Outlook report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

It says that under current consumption trends, energy demand will also rise by more than 50% over the next 25 years.

The IEA adds that oil prices will "substantially" rise unless there is extra investment in oil facilities.

It says the world has seen "years of under-investment" in both oil production and the refinery sector.

The organisation estimates that the global oil industry now needs to invest $20.3 trillion (£12 trillion) in fresh facilities by 2030, or else the wider global economy could suffer.

'Unsustainable'

"These projected trends have important implications and lead to a future that is not sustainable," said IEA chief Claude Mandil.


If investments do not come in a timely and sufficient manner, there will be higher oil prices, and global economic growth will suffer
IEA chief economist Fatih Birol

"We must change these outcomes and get the planet onto a sustainable energy path."

The IEA's warning comes at a time when the Kyoto climate change agreement calls on developed nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels by 2008-12.

It also cautions that oil producers need to double annual investments in their oil fields or else see another £13 a barrel on the projected price of oil over the next 25 years.

Economic impact

The IEA says this extra investment is vital to avoid the supply bottlenecks that saw oil prices rise above $70 a barrel in late August.


"If investments do not come in a timely and sufficient manner, there will be higher oil prices, and global economic growth will suffer," said IEA chief economist Fatih Birol.

The IEA says the world has enough oil supplies to last until 2030, and that the core issue is instead the need to improve the supply chain.

Greenpeace said the latest figures from the IEA showed just how important it was for countries to meet their Kyoto targets.

"The Kyoto protocol doesn't amount to much in terms of emissions reductions but at least it breaks the curve among countries that have accepted its targets," said Steve Sawyer, climate policy expert at the environmental pressure group.

"We have to work out the trick of how to get the US and the rapidly industrialising developing countries to break the curve as well."

The IEA is made up of the 26 main industrialised nations who are the major oil consumers.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/4414000.stm

Published: 2005/11/07 14:04:27 GMT

© BBC MMV

[IrateCitizen]

14. Try the UN millenial report on the state of the earth...

It was released this year, and was compiled by something like 1300 scientists from over 90 countries, working for 4 years.

Essentially, it found that we have used up about 60-65% of our ecological "capital", and that we could be on the verge of wholesale ecological collapse.

You can get a good layout of it at www.greenfacts.org.

[megatherium]

15. An excellent global warming site is realclimate.org.

It's written by climate scientists to refute all the propaganda that the carbon industry has been putting out. Very detailed, written for technically sophisticated people.

One discussion on the web site concerns Mt. Kilimanjaro, which is losing its famous glacier. Global warming skeptics say this is because the precipitation on the mountain has decreased in recent decades, not because it's warmer. But the scientists writing on realclimate.org detail the truth of the matter: precipitation is less than it was decades before, but precip was that low in the mid to late 1800s, when the glacier was fine. Also, the precip pattern shift in Africa is itself a symptom of warming.