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Category: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

we’re really warm

October 29, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

In todays world the political battles seem to burn more intensely than the nastiest forest fire in history and a…

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IPCC? Thank God for yeezy!

October 23, 2018 Owen Pendergast 1 Comment

Technological fixes address rising temperatures by using new methods to restrict the negative consequences of air pollutants such as coal…

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Global Warming is Really Real

Seamus Andersen 2 Comments

In my humble opinion the most important thing to keep in mind with global warming is that we are aware.…

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Protected: Reidy for science

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Individual –> Global

Sorcha Brooks 4 Comments

1) Technological fixes can be used to address rising temperatures. For example, carbon capture (capturing carbon from the atmosphere and…

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Sci-Cli

Sydney Jones 4 Comments

Rising temperatures would greatly impact the environment and cause a series of negative effects. This change could potentially be solved…

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When You’re Faced With A Gnarly Techno-Fix Mountain, Just Climate

October 22, 2018 Madalyn Alderman 7 Comments

Quick disclaimer: I’m certainly no climate expert, and I don’t fully understand all the numbers being used in these articles…

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Temperatures are Rising

Carly Zell 3 Comments

The techno-fix that is mostly talked about would be finding something that would remove CO2 from the air so that…

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That’s One Hot Planet

Dexter Jarrett 2 Comments

The IPCC is an organization that works under the UN to establish policies that benefit the world in the areas…

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Ignorance is Bliss(tering) Our Ecosystem

Shayne Utter 4 Comments

Recognizing that human activity, the rise of industrialism, has been the leading contributor to the rise in global temperature, is…

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(Tech) Fixing the Climate

Ty Gentry 2 Comments

Tech fixes could help address rising temperatures by reducing the amount of greenhouse gas we emit into the atmosphere. The…

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Global Warming In Mirror Is Closer Than It Appears

Logan Vining 1 Comment

After reading the IPCC’s report on the severe and imminent consequences of global warming, I thought of several avenues regarding…

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The topic that just keeps getting hotter

Kendra Fischer 1 Comment

The IPCC has predicted that the climate change will result an increase in global temperatures by 2 degrees C.  The…

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The climate is changing, but the solutions aren’t.

Ben Schwartz 2 Comments

As global temperatures soar, technological fixes will attempt to alleviate future catastrophic conditions. If technology prevents or slows climate crises,…

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Reidy or not, its time for change

William Green 4 Comments

This question should be looked at in the context of the information we have accumulated over this semester.  The impression…

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Is It Too Late To Go To Mars?

Emily OBrien 2 Comments

The IPCC argument is that catastrophic environmental conditions will result from globally  warming temperatures. I think that technological fixes have…

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“Global Warming” or Climate Change

Bryce Whited 2 Comments

“Global Warming” is a term often used by people to scare others into believing the earth is getting warmer and warmer…

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16 Decades of Science

Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

A few months ago I had a conversation with Dr. Heyes, the head of MSU’s Chemical and Biological Engineering department,…

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Its Up To U.S.

Mia Thomas 4 Comments

When reading these articles, it is frustrating to learn that technically there is still a way to save our planet…

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Climate Crisis

Catherine Vejvoda 1 Comment

The ramifications of climate change that we could face are all quite terrifying, but what are people doing to stop…

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Wake Up and Smell the Roses

Peyton McElroy 1 Comment

Due to the current pace that the planet is warming and our continued inability to take this issue seriously and…

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If My Calculations are Correct, When this Baby Hits 2.0 You’re Going to See Some Serious Stuff

Amanda Larson 1 Comment

Climate change and its implications will be a very problematic, global issue if not addressed. The IPCC suggests in “Headline…

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Warming on a Global Scale

Blaze Wiseman 1 Comment

The IPCC articles explain the need for us to limit global warming to an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius. This…

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A Thorny Problem

Chance Ronning 1 Comment

There are many potential technological fixes that may be able to help the situation. One obvious example would be more…

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Well, Why Don’t You Cry About It – No I’m Serious

Anthony Johnson 1 Comment

“You won’t be laughing at global warming when you got a swimming pool in your living room,” said every opinionated…

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It’s Not to Late to Try and Save our Planet

Cameron Durfee 1 Comment

If the average global temperature keeps continuing to rise at the pace it’s at, we will soon reach catastrophic levels…

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Climate Science… Infant, or Adolescent?

Colleen May 1 Comment

Techno-fixes can potentially address rising temperature through capturing greenhouse gases that are have been known to assist in global warming,…

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The Sisyphean Struggle: Humanity Against Climate Change and Our Own Apathy

Mary Hill Young

HST 207 – Science and Technology in World History Mary Hill Young 10/22/18   Vast and catastrophic global climate change…

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Climate Science, the solution or just a load of hot air?

Hunter Strobel 2 Comments

  The issues outlined in the IPCC articles could potentially be addressed in a number of ways using technological fixes.…

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Climate change is Real

Logan Bonney 1 Comment

Technological fixes are already helping, but we need to do a lot more than we are. We need to find…

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The Global Warming Snowball Effect

Conor Bianchi 2 Comments

     The two temperature thresholds given 1.5℃ and 2℃ are the points of reversibility without widespread severe damage and…

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Fun Fact: Climate Science Isn’t Fake News

Sophie Black 1 Comment

The IPCC has had various meetings and written quite a substantial number of articles regarding the future of Earth’s atmosphere,…

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Puberty or Peril: the Environment is going through the changes

Madelyn Hillis 1 Comment

It should be common knowledge that Earth is warming, and fast. Although 1.2-2 degree C does not sound like the…

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week 9

Ryan Smart 1 Comment

The second IPCC article says that there are already some actions that limit global warming are underway. It also claims…

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Sciente: reliable or not?

Jose Alarcon Cascales 1 Comment

Technological fixes can somehow solve those problems who make our life easier. In this case, we might call these fixes…

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The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease

Ellie Polk 1 Comment

As has always been true with effectively reducing human impact on the environment, the main change required to make progress…

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Can the climate changed really be stopped?

Evan Scaraglino

In the IPCC reports and the New York Times articles they state that we are having a huge issue with…

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it warm.

J. Beckett Sweeney

“Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require ‘rapid and far-reaching’ transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global…

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Learning Outside the Classroom

Garrett Hartley 1 Comment

The articles about the IPCC report were very neat to read into and certainly illustrate the climate reality we live…

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Please save us, Elon.

Conner Cross 1 Comment

By 2040, we may see severe climate conditions. Unbridled carbon emissions are projected to cause an overwhelming rise in global…

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“Welp, We’re Boned.”-Bender Bending Rodriguez

Tyler Trudnowski

There are examples of techno-fixes that address parts of climate change throughout the era proceeding the Industrial Era, like the…

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Climate change is getting REAL

Linnea Fristam 1 Comment

The temperature changes are projected to reduce increases in ocean temperature, there will be worsening of food shortages and wildfires…

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Ignorance and bliss, politics and environment: will we ever move forward?

Alexia Gonzales

Technological fixes have been a staple for solutions since anthropogenic environmental issues and degradation, as we’ve learned throughout this course…

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nice clim8 m8

Colby Darr

This article states a very clear message, the world is on a path of global warming and all that fun…

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John Tyndall- The Agnostic OG Mountaineer

Edward Cooke

The IPCC reports expose the potential threats that increasing global temperatures will have.  At 1.5 and 2 degrees C rise,…

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1,050-Year-Old Infant?

Cassie Andrews 1 Comment

When it comes to a strictly technological fix, these articles mainly discuss carbon capturing technology and an increase in the…

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Pending Doom for Humanity

David Todd

This climate report is simple to understand, we need drastic change in our society if we are to avoid a…

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The 157 Year Old Infant of Climate Science

John Jones 1 Comment

Technological fixes can be viewed as fifty percent of the solution to the issue of global warming. The IPCC mentions…

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Have we already lost?

Nick Leach

Global temperatures have been rising for a while now. One technological fix is to create more efficient, cleaner energy sources.…

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A Change in Climate

Alex Sutherland

There are many different technical fixes that would help with climate change. The most obvious technical fix that is constantly…

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Is money that important?

Kilian Swirtz 1

Technological fixes can and need to fix our environment before it isn’t possible to save it. The Earth is already…

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The science is in the ground

Wyatt Ayers

Many of the techno-fixes would involve swapping a bad environmental impact for another. For example, electric cars put out zero…

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A Climate Cure All?

Cole Satrom

There is not an easy solution to the problems surrounding climate change. To stop the global warming that is drastically…

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A Streetcar Named Climate Science

Jacob Lunsford

The readings posted this week gave a bleak future if society doesn’t change some of their habits relatively fast. In…

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Oh the heat, the unbearable heat. Huh, wait a minute?

Chisum Green

Over the course of this semester we have gone over how Technological fixes have been able to find a way…

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Global Warming, What Can we do About it?

Ayla Johnsen

Techno-fixes can acknowledge the companies and factories that give off all the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. From there…

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A Political Solution to Climate Change

Hilary Rosa

I am inclined to think that we need a major political/ economic paradigm shift to solve climate change, rather than…

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Climate Change: A Real Icebreaker

Hali Kapperud

Technological fixes such as solar geo-engineering, solar and wind power, and carbon capture can help address rising temperatures. Carbon capture…

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This Representation Wants Taxation

Marika Feduschak

The 1.5°C mark is one that seems trivial, almost inconsequential, yet it is one that holds dire consequences for the…

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Vote for Our Mother (Earth)

Diana Lester

In the IPCC report, it mentions some possible fixes for climate changes. These fixes are lowering the use of coal…

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Our world is dying, and people are ok with that (apparently)

Dan OMorrow

We have been hearing about the catastrophic implications of global warming for a long time now. Lots of law and…

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Techno Fixated

Cameron Graves

Taking what the IPCC says in their report on global warming there are technological fixes currently being developed and expected to be…

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Rising Global Temperatures

Taylor Koth

The articles about the IPCC report discusses the consequences of increased global temperatures at 1.5 degrees C and 2.0 degrees…

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The Truth About Climate Science

Nick Lemon

I found the reading most interesting when it talked about how we are actually doing some things right in the…

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A Global Effort

Patrick Phattharaampornchai

Contrary to what media and political agenda may advocate, the IPCC states that climate change is not only real but…

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Five Feet High and Rising

Tyler Ewald

What’s the difference between 1.5 and 2.0 degrees Celsius? Nearly 1.0 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s it. That’s what it takes for…

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Too bad about the Paris Climate Agreement huh?

Noah Hense 1 Comment

Not only can technological fixes be applied to halt global warming at its optimized 1.5 Celsius level, it appears they…

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John Tyndall, Whatta Guy

Erica Dobrowski 1 Comment

After reading the horrific reality about climate change, I think it is important to start taking drastic measures on finding…

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More Climate Problems and Less Time

Jason Pichette

Contrary to previous beliefs, the new IPCC report has shown us that the impacts of climate change are coming, and…

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Bring on the techno-fix!

Kathleen Warren

The IPCC report shows a lot of depressing things that are going to become a reality if global warming is…

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People Who Are Mad About Climate Science Need to Chill

Natalie Carlson

  The New York Times article phrases the impending global problems to occur by 2040 as “a world of worsening…

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Climate Change: The Hobby that Became a Necessity

Mathew Shea

Technological fixes, such as the carbon capture technology, would allow governments to continue using coal (Davenport 2). This technological fix…

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Desolate for a Solution

Heather Schaffnit

Throughout this course we have covered a variety of technological fixes regarding the many issues of industrialization, and how we…

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Climate Rant

Jay Harrison

If one is brave and confident enough to place their trust in the words of any government agency, then they…

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Earth’s Biggest Problem

Kaylor Althoff

With the ever-growing threat of global warming threatening the life on Earth as we know it, scientists are trying to…

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Climate Change Conspiracy?

Connor Ludwig

The IPCC predicts that ramifications of global warming at 1.5 degrees C and 2.0 degrees C. The IPCC states that…

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Our World May be ending but We might be to Ignorant to save it

Will Werner

Technological fixes can directly address the rising temperatures with many different ways.  First off, humans can lower the chances and…

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global warming

Nicole Eifert

The reduction of coal use through wind and solar energy is one way that we can start combating climate change.…

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Make a Difference

Sean Jungst 1 Comment

The consequences of climate change will have effects far greater than we currently suspect. To ensure a bright future for…

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IPCC response

Roman Oliman 1 Comment

Technological fixes have been developed or a least research to aid the world in curbing climate change and keeping it…

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It’s Getting Hot in Here

Hannah Ludlow 1 Comment

According to the IPCC, “limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of…

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Carbon Emissions Are Actual Poison, Mr. Ebell.

Steve Quinn

Techno fixes can address ongoing climate change and environmental concerns in a number of ways, namely reducing human impact on…

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Too far gone

Jacob Dass

One large technological advance that may not be able to reverse this problem, but rather negate it, or nullify it…

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It Can Fix Everything

Spencer Felice

Techno-fixes that can help with slowing or reducing the rise in global temperature is currently being implemented within our daily…

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Climate catastrophe by 2040? and the findings by the IIPC

Nathan Rubino

Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IIPC, for short) released a shocking (or maybe not so shocking)…

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Global ignorance

Audrey Scott

IF we were taking global climate change seriously, we would’ve already implemented serious systemic changes to our societies in order…

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A Race against the Inevitable

Sam Barber

A race against the inevitable The Hot Topic in today’s science and media as been climate change. Humans have been…

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Driving towards a cliff

Matt Muir

There are many things that need to be done in order for the world to stop global warming at 1.5…

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Can we actually solve climate change? Probably not.

Daniel Alexander

Climate change is perhaps the most prevalent environmental and socioeconomic issue in the world today and has already had profound…

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Global Warming Problem

John Stoppler

According to the readings what needs to be done is the global warming needs to be at 1.5 degrees Celsius…

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Lets Get Down to Business to Defeat Climate Change

Alex Judge

The heart of the matter discussed is that limiting the rise of global warming to an overall 1.5 degrees C…

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winters canceled

Fritz Arnold 39 Comments

  This is a tough one considering the progress of climate change. Technological fixes will be the solution in combating…

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We are all to blame

Jacob Kelley

The rising global temperature is arguably the most severe environmental and ecological issue we face today. “Global warming is likely…

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You May Doubt Science But You Can’t Doubt History

Tyler Krueger

In my opinion there are many technological fixes that can prevent large scale global warming. However, like we have talked…

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Screwed by 2040

Alexis Thull

After the readings I honestly don’t see a way for technology to be able to fix the hot oven we…

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an easy fix

October 21, 2018 Mckinley Paine

The idea that a technological fix is the solution to the rising temperatures is a little far fetched in my…

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Its Gettin’ Toasty

Cody Coffin

As time goes on, and human existence still exist, the climate will continue to rise. One of the biggest debates…

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The Crucial Nature of Climate Science

Audrey Schied

From a scientific view, it is undeniable that global temperatures are rising in a way which will have massive impacts…

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Cow Farts and Tyndall

Patrick Wolff 2 Comments

A technological fix could buy us some time in the face of global warming, but there are other issues increasing…

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Bryce Dawkins Week 9 Blog Post

Bryce Dawkins

Bryce Dawkins Paragraph 1: Global warming clearly is becoming an issue or you could say this is an existing issue…

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Climate Fatigue

October 20, 2018 Rachel Bragg

The IPCC report paints a dark picture of what will happen if the world collectively does not make an active…

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