07 Feb What areas of APA formatting are familiar to you? What areas do you ne

Week 1Discussion

What areas of APA formatting are familiar to you? What areas do you need to improve? Demonstrate your ability to complete a successful search and cite sources by selecting a topic of interest to you; it can be anything! Using the library website, locate three scholarly resources and cite them using APA format. Share in your post topic you selected and why these resources are relevant. Initial post should be 300-500 words.

You can finish your post asking a question related to conducting research for others to answer  OR you can respond to two peers. Responses should be 100-200 words.  (LO1) (LO2)

Essential Activities: 

1. Reading Start Here, Library Search, A Boolean Search, and How to Successfully Search in 5 Minutes will assist you in writing this discussion forum.

2. Reviewing APA Style Quick Reference Guide and APA 7th Edition Common Reference Examples Guide will assist you in writing this discussion forum.

Answer

Throughout its long history, Earth has warmed and cooled time and again. Climate has changed when the planet received more or less sunlight due to subtle shifts in its orbit, as the atmosphere or surface changed, or when the Sun’s energy varied. But in the past century, another force has started to influence Earth’s climate: humanity

         TEMPERATURE

1. a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.

2. Climate 

Greenhouse gases are only part of the story when it comes to global warming. Changes to one part of the climate system can cause additional changes to the way the planet absorbs or reflects energy. These secondary changes are called  climate feedbacks, and they could more than double the amount of warming caused by carbon dioxide alone.  The primary feedbacks are due to snow and ice, water vapor, clouds, and the carbon cycle.

3. HOTTER SUMMER'S :and more frequent fires will lead to more cases of heat stroke and deaths, and to higher levels of near-surface ozone and smoke, which would cause more ‘code red’ air quality days. Intense droughts can lead to an increase in malnutrition. On a longer time scale, fresh water will become scarcer, especially during the summer, as mountain glaciers disappear, 

4. ECOSYSTEM :This change in the growing season affects the broader ecosystem. Migrating animals have to start seeking food sources earlier. The shift in seasons may already be causing the lifecycles of pollinators, like bees, to be out of synch with flowering plants and trees. 

5. Rising Sea Levels

The weather isn’t the only thing global warming will impact: rising sea levels will erode coasts and cause more frequent coastal flooding. Some island nations will disappear. The problem is serious because up to 10 percent of the world’s population lives in vulnerable areas 

6. Changing Weather

For most places, global warming will result in more frequent hot days and fewer cool days, with the greatest warming occurring over land. Longer, more intense heat waves will become more common. Storms, floods, and droughts will generally be more severe as precipitation patterns change

7. Clouds

Closely related to the water vapor feedback is the cloud feedback. Clouds cause cooling by reflecting solar energy, but they also cause warming by absorbing infrared energy (like greenhouse gases) from the surface when they are over areas that are warmer than they are.  In our current climate, clouds have a cooling effect overall, but that could change in a warmer environment

8. SUMMER : In autumn, the leaves on deciduous trees change colors as they lose chlorophyll, the molecule that plants use to synthesize food. Chlorophyll makes plants appear green because it absorbs red and blue sunlight as it strikes leaf surfaces. It is not a stable compound and plants have to continuously synthesize it to keep their leaves green—a process that requires ample sunlight and warm temperatures. When temperatures drop and days shorten, levels of chlorophyll drop as well.

9. CONCLUSION: 

The changes to weather and ecosystems will also affect people more directly. Hardest hit will be those living in low-lying coastal areas, and residents of poorer countries who do not have the resources to adapt to changes in temperature extremes and water resources. As tropical temperature zones expand, the reach of some infectious diseases, such as malaria, will change. More intense rains and hurricanes and rising sea levels will lead to more severe flooding and potential loss of property and life

REFRENCES: 

1.

1. Anthes, R.A., Corell, R.W., Holland, G., Hurrell, J.W., MacCracken, M.C., & Trenberth, K. (2010, February 12).  Hurricanes and Global Warming—Potential Linkages and Consequences.   Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87: 623-628. Accessed April 15, 2010

2.         Bonan, G. B. (2008).  Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests.   Science, 320(5882), 1444-1449

3.

1. Cazenave, A. (2006).  How fast are the ice sheets melting?   Science, 314, 1251-1252.

2.

1. Dessler, A., Zhang, Z., Yang, P. (2008, October 23).  Water-vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003-2008.   Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L20704.

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Week 2 Discussion Forum – (LO2) – 50 points

Due: Sunday, February 5, 2023, 11:59 PM

Find three more resources, to add to your sources from Week 1. Then, describe the strategies you used to complete a successful search in 200-400 words. Share a list of your sources, formatted in APA Style  (LO2).

You can complete the post by posing a question for your peers to answer regarding research  OR you can respond to two of your peers. Responses should be 100-200 words.

Essential Activities: 

1. Reading the all of the required readings will assist you in writing this discussion forum.

Answer

As we Discussed earlier about global warming effects so more going to described and references adding up here in this discussion forum 

Snow and ice

Perhaps the most well known feedback comes from melting snow and ice in the Northern Hemisphere. Warming temperatures are already melting a growing percentage of Arctic sea ice, exposing dark ocean water during the perpetual sunlight of summer. Snow cover on land is also dwindling in many areas. In the absence of snow and ice, these areas go from having bright, sunlight-reflecting surfaces that cool the planet to having dark, sunlight-absorbing surfaces that bring more energy into the Earth system and cause more warming.

The Carbon Cycle

Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and warming temperatures are causing changes in the Earth’s natural carbon cycle that also can feedback on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. For now, primarily ocean water, and to some extent ecosystems on land, are taking up about half of our fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions. This behavior slows global warming by decreasing the rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase, but that trend may not continue. Warmer ocean waters will hold less dissolved carbon, leaving more in the atmosphere.

Impact on Earth

Ultimately, global warming will impact life on Earth in many ways, but the extent of the change is largely up to us. Scientists have shown that human emissions of greenhouse gases are pushing global temperatures up, and many aspects of climate are responding to the warming in the way that scientists predicted they would. This offers hope. Since people are causing global warming, people can mitigate global warming, if they act in time. Greenhouse gases are long-lived, so the planet will continue to warm, and changes will continue to happen far into the future, but the degree to which global warming changes life on Earth depends on our decisions now.

Surface Temperature

The impact of increased surface temperatures is significant in itself. But global warming will have additional, far-reaching effects on the planet. Warming modifies rainfall patterns, amplifies coastal erosion, lengthens the growing season in some regions, melts ice caps and glaciers, and alters the ranges of some infectious diseases. Some of these changes are already occurring.

 References 

1. Weir, J. (2002, April 8).  Global Warming. Earth Observatory. Accessed April 13, 2007.

2.

1. Soden, B. J. and Held, I.M. (2006, July).  An assessment of climate feedbacks in coupled ocean-atmosphere models. Journal of Climate, 19: 3354-3360.

3.

1. Lean, J. L., & Rind, D. H. (2009).  How will Earth’s surface temperature change in future decades? Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L15708.

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Week 3 Discussion Forum (LO2) (LO3) (LO4) – 50 points

Due: Sunday, February 12, 2023, 11:59 PM

What role do you see APA citations playing in your writing? How does the use of citations help avoid plagiarism? How does ethics play a role in scholarly writing?

Using one of the resources found in Week 2, paraphrase a paragraph from the resource, in one to two sentences, providing appropriate in-text citations and reference list.

Initial posts should be 300-500 words.You can finish your post asking a question that you may have about academic integrity for others to answer  OR you can respond to two peers. Responses should be 100-200 words.  (LO2) (LO3) (LO4)

Essential Activities: 

1. Reading the all of the required readings will assist you in writing this discussion forum.

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Week 3 Assignment (LO4) – 100 points

Due: Sunday, February 12, 2023, 11:59 PM

Research and examine strategies for maintaining academic integrity. Create an infographic with at least five strategies you will use to maintain academic integrity. Create an original graphic in Canva, templates are not allowed. Submit as a PDF.  (LO3)

Cite all sources used in APA Style Format.  (LO4)

Essential Activities: 

1. Reading the all of the required readings will assist you in writing this discussion forum.

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Week 4 Discussion Forum (LO2) (LO3) – 50 points

Due: Saturday, February 18, 2023, 11:59 PM

Define plagiarism in your own words and describe strategies avoid it?  Describe a method of organization that maintains academic integrity and avoids plagiarism.

Post must be 300-500 words; end post with a question  OR respond to two peers. Responses to peers should be 100-200 words.  (LO2) (LO3)

Essential Activities: 

1. Reading the required materials for the week will assist you in this forum.

Final Submission (LO2) (LO3) (LO4) – 100 points

Using the research from the previous weeks, summarize your findings, using appropriate citations.

You can create an original one-page infographic, write an original paper (1-2 double-spaced pages), or create an original video (2-3 minutes).

Cite all of your sources in an appropriate reference page in APA Style format.  (LO2) (LO3) (LO4)

Essential Activities: 

1. Reading the required materials for the week will assist you in this forum.