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As the result primarily of human-caused emissions, our climate is changing. It is becoming less stable, more volatile and warmer: global average surface temperatures have increased by 0.74 degrees Celsius during the past 100 years. Seasons are arriving at different times as normal variations are increasing; glaciers are receding; sea levels are rising. It is likely that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe. Droughts, floods and heat waves are already contributing to crop failures, conflicts and a steadily increasing toll of death and human suffering. As the planet warms it is highly likely that there will be an increase in the frequency and severity of floods and droughts in many regions.I think that global warming is a real issue that should be a concern to us all now and is only going to get worse, rapidly.
However, I think that people are getting confused by the expanding population, the planets inability to support us, the wiping out of the fish stock, the extinction of flora and fauna, coral bleaching, expanding desert, arctic ice melting, third world debt, poverty and starvation, illeagal logging, multi drug resistant TB, and all the other issues facing humanity and then pushing them all together and labeling it as "global warming". Some of these issues are a result of man made climate change and some are the result of 6.6 BILLION people destroying the environment.
And then they see the problem as to big to start fixing, so, therefore there is no point to do anything about it as no one else is, etc. However all these issues can be broken down and we ,collectively, could go someway to solving them. However, unfortunately, we are human and historically, when ever there has been a time to band together for the good of all, we have choose to bomb, kill, invade, and attack and take what ever we wanted from are neighbors. *Sigh*.
Check this out its really cool and puts things into perspective. click on the now button and it will all zero.
http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldCl...
and have you watched this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVz...
And some movies.
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?sh...
(interesting)
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04...
(interesting and funny)
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