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Search for Global Warming

Use the following search engine results to answer the questions below (links will open in a new browser window):

a) Global Warming
Dispelling myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, ...
Peyton Knight of the National Center for Public Policy Research responded, ...
www.globalwarming.org - 75k - 17 Jan 2006

b) Global warming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'Global warming' is a specific case of the more general term 'climate change' ...
her survey of 928 peer-reviewed scientific abstracts on climate change ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming - 98k - 17 Jan 2006

c) The EPA Global Warming Kids Page
Focuses on science and impacts of global warming or climate change, and on
actions that help address global warming. Features games, events, and links to ...
www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/ - 10k

d) Journal home : Nature
Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style ...
news@nature.com ...
www.nature.com/nature/ -


Q1. Supporting your research

Which of the above sites would you choose to look at first if you were looking for articles to support your dissertation research?

  1. unmarked a) Global Warming
  2. unmarked b) Global warming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  3. unmarked c) The EPA Global Warming Kids Page
  4. unmarked d) Journal home : Nature

Q2. Helping with homework

Which of the above sites would you choose to look at first if you wanted to help your 12-year-old cousin with his homework?

  1. unmarked a) Global Warming
  2. unmarked b) Global warming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  3. unmarked c) The EPA Global Warming Kids Page
  4. unmarked d) Journal home : Nature

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