Global warming has quickly become one of the most heated issues in America (pun intended). Rising temperatures and melting icebergs are indisputable evidence that the Earth is warming, but is this global heat wave a man-made crisis or just overblown hype?
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Is Global Warming a Crisis?
Open your eyes, people, and see what's happening!
My first post and a topic that is near and dear to my heart.
Global Warming is here and unless we - the world - do something serious to stop, slow down or totally reverse what is happening, our children and theirs will never see living creatures that we now take for granted. I have a 6 month old grandson and I am sad to think that he may never see a living polar bear (one of my MOST favorite animals). Their habitats are dwindling due to rises in temperatures and now, in Australia, the heat is going up so high that animals that have adapted to a hot climate are leaving their home areas in search of water and cool temps. There's been proof of a hole in the Ozone Layer and it's right where the temp. changes all started. Now they're moving downward and we're all experiencing radical weather changes. Species are dying off or being put in high risk due to drastic climate changes and while some argue that it's only a degree here or there, they fail to see that just 2 degrees can cause marine life to leave the waters that the polar bears feed in. Just TWO degrees! Those two degrees cause nearly all of the marine life that the polar bear population needs, to leave and go far enough away that the polar bear cannot find enough food to live.
It's a crisis for certain and those that choose to ignore it are not just hurting the whole world, but they're hurting *themselves too* and one day it will all be too late!
- jbdean
February 11, 2009 6:54PM
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Put more ice in your koolade
and that will cut back on your global warming . Are we really going to spend nearly $1,000,000,000,000 we don't have to cut warming by .05 degrees???
- Blackbird
July 1, 2009 3:09PM
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