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Library Assignment 1

Week 1 Library Assignment: Global Warming

This is the first of four library assignments where you will develop a term paper that discuss global warming, also known as climate change. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that face humans on planet Earth. Carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” including methane and nitrous oxide that are released when we burn fossil fuels for example, cause heat to be trapped in the atmosphere surrounding Earth. A rapid rise in greenhouse gases is changing the climate faster than many living organisms may be able to adapt. (National Geographic, 2011)

Step 1: go to the NASA website: NASA. Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. 2015. Retrieved from http://climate.nasa.gov/

Step-2-Réad; “Evidence”, “Causes”, “Effects”, and “Solutions”. Write a detailed summary in your own words that describes what you learned from each of these four sections. (Your summary needs to be a minimum of 1 and 1/2 Pages to earn full credit). You may add additional resources.

Step 3: Submit your summary by midnight on Sunday.

*Tip: At the bottom of each section: Evidence, Causes, Effects, and Solutions are excellent resources that you may want to use for y our Week 2 Library assignment You will need to find and summarize 3 resource for Week 2.