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I don’t know who coined the phrase ‘Global Warming’ but it is a very unfortunate choice of words to describe the phenomenon. Here in Europe we have one of the coldest and earliest winters for a long time, and consequently many people are treating the whole idea of Global Warming as a hoax.
Understandably.
The reality is that mankind has busily been polluting the planet in which we live while at the same time happily removing all the self-cleaning mechanisms.
This is not something new. The ocean floor in many places is covered to a depth of several inches with clinker, the ash thrown out by the steamships as they used up the coal. Who knows what species became extinct as a consequence of the steam age? Vast reaches of the ocean bed are now a desert. What impact does this have on the ocean cleaning itself? This isn’t something we as a race have worried about, because we haven’t seen any consequences. Or have we?
Right now we are pumping into the atmosphere more and more pollutants, and cutting down the forests, both tropical and temperate, that used to remove pollutants from the air.
It’s all very well cutting down our carbon production, but would it not make more sense to help the earth handle the pollution more effectively by re-planting the forests? Or, perish the thought, even both? Tackle the problem from both sides?
Meanwhile, the northern hemisphere is in the grip of an arctic winter and thoughts of global warming evaporate as few realise that the southern hemisphere is undergoing a heatwave. And herein lies the dreadful proof of what we are really doing to the planet – we are removing it’s ability to regulate temperature and climate. This is why we are seeing extremes of climate, extremes which are only going to get worse.
We need to not just reduce the pollution, but to increase every countries ability to absorb and cleanse the pollution i.e. forests.
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this is a very real dilemma. Rome has just had the first snow in 30 years if this fact is not a big slap in the face to all of tho’s skeptics i don’t no what is. i believe very much in attacking the problem from both ends, this surely is the only sensible coherent plan. people only want the short easy solution, which there is none for our problem. when i say our problem i mean every person who resides in this world which is not ours it is only on loan, a loan we are not paying back. and this will be our demise.
February 15, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Global Warming and Climate Change is the biggest environmental issue that we face these days. the long term effects of these environmental changes to a nations economy is quite damaging. there would be a shortage in food supply as well as on water supply too.
February 15, 2010 at 7:23 am