Based on what you have read, written, and discussed so far, what are some of the questions you have regarding climate change? Select one question that you will research this semester and post it here. Here is a website to help you evaluate your research question: http://www.esc.edu/online-writing-center/resources/research/research-paper-steps/developing-questions/worksheetevaluate-research-question/ Write an essay in which you propose a research question and evaluate it, submitting your proposal in this area. You will earn 30 points for doing the following: • • • Proposing a good research question (2 points) Responding to the eight points cited in the website above. (8 points) Writing a convincing proposal that indicates how you will complete your research study in the remaining weeks of this semester. (20 points) 1.Writing a Good Research Question https://cirt.gcu.edu/research/developmentresources/tutorials/question 2. Developing a Research Question https://www.esc.edu/online-writing-center/resources/research/research-paper-steps/developingquestions/ 3. Sample APA Research Paper http://www.thewritesource.com/apa/apa.pdf 4. Sample MLA Research Paper https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20160920114529_747.pdf Climate Studies research paper topic ideas: 1. Why is there such resistance among part of the community toward the idea of climate change? 2. Nations such as China and the United States were not held to the same stringent standards when the Kyoto Protocol was created. What effect does this have on the global climate? 3. The role of consumers on pollution. 4. Fundamental understandings of how carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases contribute to climate change. 5. Examine fundamental concepts concerning climate fluctuations (local, regional and global impacts of climate variability phenomena) that have been observed in Earth’s climate system. 6. Examine how agricultural productivity might be vulnerable to climate change. 7. Examine how volcanic activity affects the Earth’s climate system. 8. Examine the principal causes of climate change, including their relative impacts leading to warming or cooling. 9. Examine what changes are occurring in the ocean and what the consequences may be for Earth’s climate system. 10. Examine mitigation and/or adaptation strategies for reducing the impacts of climate change with the context of sustainable development. 11. Examine the fundamentals of the cap-and-trade system for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. 12. Examine US public perceptions concerning climate change.
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