One of the many cyclones that have struck Australia before include Cyclone Ada. It was a tropical cyclone, characterized by a low pressure centre and thunderstorms resulting in strong wind and flooding rain.
Cyclone Ada : January 17, 1970 Over the years the world has been devastated by the numerous natural disasters occurring each year. These events are unavoidable and scar the people who are affected for the rest of their lives. One of the most disastrous of these disasters is a cyclone, known as a hurricane in North America or typhoon in Asia. The Australian cyclone season is from November to April and mainly affects coastal areas North of Perth along most of the Western Australian and Northern Territory coasts. Another area heavily affected is most of the Queensland coast. A cyclone is formed in stages, based on a few factors. The first and most important factor is the right temperature and place. Without the right temperature and place, a tropical cyclone can not be formed. In the second stage, the clouds start to rotate rapidly. However, a cyclone may not be developed. One of the many cyclones that have struck Australia before include Cyclone Ada. It was a tropical cyclone, characterized by a low pressure centre and thunderstorms resulting in strong wind and flooding rain. Tropical Cyclone Ada killed 14 people, first hitting Queensland's Whitsunday Island Resorts and Whitsunday Coast Mainland on January 17, 1970. Lines Drawn Around/On Australia Represent Path Although the death toll wasn't very severe, the cost of the damage was. Tropical Cyclone Ada was a category
Physical Geography Earth revision notes
Transfer-Encoding: chunked EARTH Key terms L’Aquila – Italy Key facts Occurred on 6th April 2008 at 3:32am . 6.3 on the Richter scale and focus was 9.4km deep . 70,000 made homeless . 300 died and 1500 injured . Cause Occurred at a destructive plate margin . Between Eurasian and African plates . The African plate was sub ducted by the Eurasian plate (went underneath) Primary Effects In Onna , 8/10 buildings were destroyed and 1/10 people were killed . Up to 1000 buildings were destroyed including the L’Aquila cathedral and fossa bridge . Fires were caused and spread extremely quickly , most people were asleep so didn’t notice the fire until it was too late . Secondary Effects The after shock was up to 5 on the Richter scale and this caused more deaths and damage . A landslide was created because of a broken water pipe in Paganica , this killed and injured more people . Immediate responses There was a camp for the homeless which had food and medical care , and the army were called from all over Italy to help rescue people . Cranes/diggers helped remove rubble slowly as there could be people underneath . Dogs were also sent in for extra help . Long term responses . Italy spent $15 billion on repairs . Many people were made redundant because their work places has collapsed . The aftershocks meant the rescuers had to run in and out of the
Analyzing the Climate of the United Arab Emirates.
UAE’s Climate The United Arab Emirates that lies with the northern desert belt of the Arabian Peninsula, it's in the Middle East region. UAE’s climate has a subtropical-arid with hot summers and warm winters. The climate is categorized as desert climate. In this essay I am going to prove to you that it has a hot desert climate. A hot desert climate is a climate with sparse vegetation and has an extremely harsh and high temperatures that go up to 40 degrees for the most of the time of the day. However, its days are hot but at night time the temperatures dramatically fall. The climate also has higher evaporation than precipitation which leads to lack of could coverage and strong winds. An another characteristics of hot desert is that there are low levels of humidity and the wind is usually dry that causes sandstorms. Now which these main characteristics, I am going to prove that UAE’Ss climate is a hot desert climate, by looking at the tables. During winters the temperature is very mild and pleasant with the maximum temperature reaching 24°C to 26°C, and for an area to be hot the temperature is usually above 26°C.In January the windy brings cool air from the sea into the inland which makes the temperature to drop around 15°C at night and during the day the temperatures rise to around 24°C. During the winter on average it is only possible to have to rainy days
Global Warming.
Global Warming Exercise five Global warming is, "The gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, CFC's and other pollutants" (The new oxford dictionary of English 2000). Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities. Once, all climate changes occurred naturally. However, during the Industrial Revolution, human activity released more gases into the atmosphere, and now through population growth, fossil fuel burning, and deforestation, we are affecting the mixture of gases in the atmosphere. This assignment will set out what global warming is, the impacts of global warming and what we can do to reduce the effects. The greenhouse effect can be explained simply in figure one below. (http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/emissions/index.html) The Greenhouse effect is a natural process which warms the earth. Without the greenhouse effect average surface temperature would be -15 degrees Celsius rather than 15 degrees Celsius. Global warming is a term which is often used to refer to the effects of the accelerated green house effect. While the greenhouse effect is totally natural, since the industrial revolution the chemical make up of the atmosphere has changed. An increase in chemicals such as Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour,
Global Warming
Global Warming What is Global Warming? Global warming affects everyone. It is a process where the Earth is heated up and therefore in the future Global Warming could change the life of the human race for ever. Give one or two examples of how life would change. Don't explain it.. you will explain it later. Just give a quick example or two. The process of Global Warming is basically when solar radiation is sent from the Sun to the Earth. The solar radiation then passes through the atmosphere and hits the Earth's surface. Some of this solar radiation warms the Earth's surface and some is used up by plants and trees. But the rest of it is reflected back up into space, to get to space it first has to pass through the atmosphere again. And this is where the problem is, the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are made up of CO2, methane etc, stop the solar radiation from passing through. And then they trap it in the atmosphere, Hence why the Earth is warming up. Some people are denying the fact that Global Warming is happening. They say that there isn't enough evidence to support Global Warming. But this is false, because the evidence is all around them. Al Gore, from the film an inconvenient truth, said that it is hard to get a man to believe when his salary depends on him not believing. I think this is the case with Global Warming because it is mainly big oil companies
Global Warming
Global Warming In about 1800, French scientist Jean Baptiste-Joseph Fourier proposed the theory that the gases of the atmosphere were involved in trapping the Sun's heat, like a hothouse or greenhouse. Sixty years later, John Tyndall, a British scientist, experimentally proved that heat was absorbed by carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O). Since CO2 and H2O are known to absorb heat, it is quite certain they have something to do with global warming. In addition to CO2 and H2O, methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), ozone (O3), and chlorofluorocarbons are "greenhouse gases," while nitrogen and oxygen are not. This ability to trap heat is a result of their molecular structure and shape. Environmental Effects Global warming is the eventual increase of global climates due to an inordinate amount of chloroflauocarbons (CFC's) in the earth's atmosphere. These CFC's lead to what is known as the green house effect, an occurrence that disables radiation from the sun to escape the atmosphere because of large presence of the gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFC's. Since this radiation can't escape, it stays within the atmosphere causing increased warmth-much as a greenhouse functions for a nursery. So if global warming gets too out of hand, the earth's entire ecological system could be overturned. Why? Because of one of the basic essentials that make Earth
Global warming
Global warming is a hot sensation for people on earth nowadays which represented by a huge inclining of air temperature. Based on the theory, carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels would heap up and capture excess heat, make the atmospheric temperature to rise. Some affects of global warming are the spread of disease carried by insects, reoccurrence of hurricane, economic problems, endangered species, and the melting of ice age. The further on paragraphs clarify the global warming process, evidences, and the conflicting feud on its impact on earth. The global temperature is slowly warming because of the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and water vapor makes much solar radiation is getting trapped in the Earth's atmosphere. While half of the solar radiation should be reflected back into the space and the remainder is absorbs by land and oceans, warming the earth's surface. The solar radiation cannot escape the atmosphere as easily due to the absorption by the greenhouse gases. With excess greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere would make the solar radiation being trapped too much, making the earth's global temperature to rise. There are numerous evidences on global warming. To begin with, a few hikers found dying seals on the beaches of Northern California in 1997 (James,1999). Analyzers deduced that these creatures died since the warming
Global Warming
Global Warming "Millions of years ago, disaster hit Earth, killing 95 per cent of all species. What caused it? Conditions that was chillingly similar to todays." (Lavers) According to the President of USA and his flocks of corporate sponsors, the prospect of so-called "global warming" is nothing that America should worry its pretty little head about. Many people buy into this analysis, dismissing the alarming new trends as merely changes in weather that happen all the time, or actually proclaiming that they would be glad if the earth were a little warmer - just like a day at the beach! What few people realize is that global warming is no longer even a theory; it is a fact. Moreover, it's not just a matter of the earth getting a few degrees warmer in the summer; the prospect of global warming truly is a threatened end to life as we now know it. Unless steps are taken to stop the current progression of events, and even in spite of such steps we may try to take, the vast majority of the evidence shows that the Earth will continue to grow warmer, with widespread and even catastrophic results. Global warming is a hot and widely debated topic. Speculations about the truth and facts of global warming have been questioned for years by both corporate business and respected scientists in our society. Many discarded the available information as less reliable. That was before the
Global warming
Geography Coursework Global warming Global warming is the gradual increase in global temperatures caused by the emission of greenhouse gases that trap the sun's heat in the Earth's atmosphere. As the greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere, the Earth gets hotter, leading to global warming. Sometimes natural and unpredictable events, such as volcanoes, can cause a change in climate. In the last century the temperature has increased by 0.6 º Celsius around the world. There is evidence to 'prove' that the world has gone through several stages of warming and cooling because of the analysis of ice cores. The ice cores reveal our temperatures over the last 450,000 years and carbon dioxide and methane levels over the same period. But, now scientists believe that the Earth's natural cycles have been taken over by rapid global warming. Looking back on the past million years, it is said that we are living in the longest stable period - but it's coming to an end. Imagine This... You're going outside for a walk only to discover that you've been frozen to the floor. Or maybe your house is bobbing about in the extended English Channel and you haven't had a walk for a decade. Or maybe the ground beneath your house has shrivelled up and there are cracks on the earth the size of tables and swarms of mosquitoes lingering outside your door. And when you switch the telly on, you see yet
Globalization - discuss the integration of the worlds economy.
Globalization Introduction Globalization, concept that encapsulates the growth of connections between people on a planetary scale. Globalization involves the reduction of barriers to trans-world contacts. Through it people become more able-physically, legally, culturally, and psychologically-to engage with each other in "one world". Global connections take many forms. For instance, jet aeroplanes transport passengers and cargo across any distance on the planet within a day. Telephone and computer networks effect near-instantaneous interpersonal communication between points all over the Earth. Electronic mass media broadcast messages to world audiences. Countless goods and services (such as Nissan cars and Club Med holidays) are supplied to consumers in global markets. Moreover, some articles (including much clothing and electronics) are manufactured through trans-world processes, where different stages of production are located at widely dispersed locations on the Earth. The US dollar and the Euro are examples of currencies that have global circulation. In global finance, various types of savings and credits (for example, offshore bank deposits and Eurobonds) flow in the world as a single space. Many firms (for example, Exxon), voluntary associations (for instance, Amnesty International), and regulatory agencies (such as the World Trade Organization) operate across the
