http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/
I found this website while looking for a bit more evidence to support Global Warming as an actual occurrence. It was originally created by NASA, so that immediately struck me as important. On the main page it details what Global Warming is in such simple terms that a fourth grade student with minor understanding of what a climate is could easily make out what is going on.
Climate change has happened before, as one of my earlier posts mentioned, in the form of an ice age/heat wave cycle. This website points out that this time, it's happening much faster than it should be. Carbon taken out of an ecosystem is being unnaturally released when humans burn fossil fuels for energy. The sheer amount of excessive CO2 in the atmosphere is what's killing us. The article from NASA gave me a good reason to believe that Global Warming is real and actually happening, quickly. This terrifies me. I'm only one person among six or seven billion, and half the world doesn't even believe there's something wrong, and I'm sure there are a lot of stubborn people in power.
World Embassy, if you're somehow reading my humble blog, I'd like to point out that the Economic cost of not doing something now can and will cause hundreds of billions of dollars (possibly more) of irreversable damage in the future. Do you like your planet green? I do. I'd like it to stay that way.
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ReplyDeleteI like the fact that you stumbbled upon a website about global warming that is easy enough for younger kids to understand considering the future of our world is in the younger generations hands. It's beneficial that you've addressed the fact that one person won't make much of a difference but together we can change the future..as lame as that sounds!
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