Sunday, May 4, 2008

Jessica- Work Cited

Colwell Rita R. “Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm.” American Association for the Advanced of Science 274.5295 (Dec. 20, 1996) : 2025-2031.
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE- This article talks about how Global Warming causes weather change with draughts that cause animlas to migrate and carry disease along with them. This disease then spreads on to humans and there are many cases in the hospital where the disease results in the death of the person. Such an example of a disease where many cases were discussed and reviewed are The Cholera Paradigm.

Lawton, John, et al. “Individualistic species responses invalidate simple physiological models of community dynamics under global environmental change.” Journal of Animal Ecology 47.4 (1998): 600- 612.
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE- This article talks about how the global temperature change has different effects on individual species and there were experiments held in laboratories to conduct research and show the effects. One such situation was where they examined three Drosophila in a lab that copied a latitudinal climate of 15 degrees C.

McCammack, Brian. “Hot Damned America: Evangelicalism and the Climate Change Policy Debate.” American Quaterly 59.3 (Sep. 2007) : 645-668.
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE-The article as a whole discusses the benefits of Global Warming. It talks about why we should not stop Global Warming as the author demonstrates more negative outcomes from stopping Global Warming than the continuation of Global Warming such as the poor will get poorer and Global Warming itself helps reduce the extinction of plant species and animals.
RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT- The relevance of the article to my argument is that the author discusses how the rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations might result in some increase in global average temperature. However, increasing CO2 levels also result in enhanced plant growth and reduce desertification. Also he firmly establishes that it must not be ignored and he goes on to espouse the benefits of global warming in reducing species extinction.

Merrryfield, Merry M. “Science-Technology- Society and Global Perspectives.” Lawerence Erlbaum Associates 30.4 (1991): 288-293.
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE- The article wants to inform people, especially students, to pay attention to the change of global impact on their lives. They want to provide information about these Global Changes and let us know how much in the past century, Globalization has increased by large amounts.

Michener, William K. et al. “Climate Change, Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, and Rising Sea Level in coastal Wetlands.” Ecological Society America 7.3 (1997) : 770- 801.
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE- The article basically covers the fact of the rising sea levels that are caused by an effect of Global Warming and how this leaves an impact of devastatiokn in costal wetlands where natural diasters occur.

Smith, S.V. “Global Change and Coral reef Ecosystems.” Review of Ecology and Systematics 23 (1992): 89- 118.
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE-This article talks about the effect of global warming on coral reef ecosystems and their response to global change. Also with how they cope and change with the effect that has intervened.

Thornes, John. “Global environmental change and regional response: the European Mediterranean.” The Royal Geographical Society 20.3 (1995): 357-367.
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE- This article presents us with the fact that the signifance for people is mapped out by the geography of the impact more than the objects of the global change. Therfore location is a key factor and they use old Eurpean Mediterranean to set that example.

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