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NB students help develop sustainability plans

As seen in The Daily Gleaner on February 14th, 2010.

The Gaia Project, a Fredericton-based charity providing sustainable engineering education programs to students, has been piloting a new sustainability program developed at several New Brunswick high schools.

Myths: Medieval Warm Period

Several years of talking to people about climate change means that I have come across my fair share of people who don't believe that there is such a thing as human induced climate change; that this is all in fact just one of many natural cycles the earth goes through. For the most part, they fall back on to one of several arguments to demonstrate their point.

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The Greenhouse Effect

Much has been made of the Greenhouse Effect and its responsibility in the current rise in global temperatures that we are seeing. While it is true that the greenhouse effect is in some ways responsible for global climate change, it is essential to point out that the greenhouse effect is also essential to human life on this planet. Without it, the average global temperature would plummet to -19°C.

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