Saturday, March 14, 2009

Climate Change...Believe it or Not?!

In the twenty first century we are being ambushed with this notion of climate change, that humans are destroying the earth at a rapid pace. We know all the facts and the many solutions pitched at us from companies and leaders. But you really start to wonder how much is truely being done and what is really causing this climate change of the world. Should we trust the scientists that have been hired by companies to save their 'asses', to make them look like they are not guilty of any greenhouse gas emissions?
It is hard to honestly come to a conclusion about what this issue really is and how big of an impact it will really have on us in the future. We can deal with now and I think thats where people need to wake up and realize that we CAN help the now, and we should not dwell on what we HAVE done in the past.
In our seminar we showed the video An inconvenient Truth by Al Gore, which shows the effort of the united states in stepping up to the plate. You can question his stats and wonder how much truth he actaully speaks, but the effects are visible and undenyiable. There is an issue with climate change and looking to the state of the arctic just north of Canada, we can see visual evidence. The meltlig of glaciers is not only causing harm to the animals like polar bears which rely on ice caps for rest, but the basic waming of the north causes concern for further warming of the south. If most of the southern states have temperatures almost unabreable fo rhumans, what will happen in the next 50 years when temperatuers are so high we cannot go outside inthe direct sunlight anymore?

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  1. "We can deal with now and I think thats where people need to wake up and realize that we CAN help the now, and we should not dwell on what we HAVE done in the past."

    I couldn't agree more. It seems people are too busy with pointing fingers that they don't focus on the future. This may be a bit of an extreme example but in many ways it can be related to climate change. What if we knew the world was going to end in 2010 if we didnt take action because of some reason or other. Don't you think we'd be more inclined to take action than blame people due to the fact that the end is so near in sight? Of course we would. Let's just hope we don't wait long enough that this actually becomes a reality.

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